Sioux City City Council passes traditional-marriage resolution [View All]

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I am so disgusted by the council of my hometown ... and they wonder why the kids move away - feel free to leave comments on the story.

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Voting 3-2, the council Monday adopted a resolution supporting the legal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, opposing efforts to redefine the institution as anything else and urging the Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot.

The vote came after a public hearing that lasted two hours and 20 minutes and saw more than 85 people pack the Council Chambers at City Hall.

Hoffman first proposed the resolution in December, but Ferris, Hobart and Rixner succeeded in deferring the matter while an attorney general's opinion was sought on the council's authority to take such action. Last week, Ferris said he didn't want to wait for an opinion that might not even be forthcoming.

Explaining his rationale Monday, Ferris, a Roman Catholic, said: "I have an obligation to my faith. ... My faith is more important than being politically correct. When I die, I have to answer to someone who is more important to me than an editorial writer or a blogger. ... We know we are being aggressively lobbied to change the definition of marriage."