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Originally Posted by Drolefille
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Rhode Island and New York don't have gay marriage mostly because of specific situations in their legislatures, with people who oppose gay marriage holding either significant leadership positions in the Democratic caucus (for RI) or balance of Power (NY Senate).
Iowa does have gay marriage because the State Supreme Court ruled that it had to and unlike California, getting something like that overturned at the ballot box is incredibly difficult. A state constitutional amendment would be needed which *either* means it has to pass the state legislatures (both houses individually) in two consecutive sessions and then pass at the ballot box *or* through a state constitutional convention (which gets voted on every ten years, but could lead to things completely unrelated to gay marriage that no one can predict)