We love Zach Wahls, the 19-year-old Iowan who spoke before
legislators yesterday about his family — just before the House
voted for a constitutional amendment to ban Iowa's currently
legal gay marriage. What's next?  Wahls is an engineering
student at the University of Iowa who describes himself as an
Eagle Scout and a small business owner-operator. "If I were your
son, Mr. Chairman, I believe I'd make you very proud," he said.
"My family isn't very different from yours." He added, "You are
voting for the first time in the history of our state to codify
discrimination into our constitution."  Vote they did — All 59
Republicans, and some Democrats, in the state House of
Representatives voted for the constitutional amendment. That
said, it doesn't have a chance in the Democratic-controlled
Senate, where the majority leader said he won't allow it to come
to a vote. (Side note: The perennial references in the Des
Moines Register article to "one-woman, one-man marriage" as the
alternative to same-sex marriage may