The Iowa Supreme Court today has ruled that a state law prohibiting so-called homosexual “marriage” is unconstitutional.

In so doing, the court joined its counterparts in Massachusetts, California and Connecticut in trying to force this bogus definition of “marriage” on its state’s residents by judicial fiat.

This is frustrating and disheartening for the majority of Americans who subscribe to an authentic understanding of marriage, which can only legitimately occur between one man and one woman, and who believe in the democratic process that is fundamental to the American way of life.

But the precedent of California should give heart to Catholics, and others of different faith and of no faith at all who together comprise a strong majority of Americans who are joined in opposition to this fraudulent judicial effort to redefine marriage.

Many believed last fall’s Proposition 8 ballot initiative to amend the state constitution defining marriage properly, as an exclusively one-man, one-woman institution, had no chance in liberal-minded California, especially given the strong bias in favor of redefining the definition of marriage among the news and entertainment media.

But California voters decided otherwise and overturned their Supreme Court, when they spoke through the ballots they cast on Nov. 4. A decisive majority rejected the meddling by their state’s Supreme Court with the institution of marriage by voting Yes on Proposition 8.

Rest assured that Iowa voters will do the same, as soon as they are given the chance.