This morning, the Iowa state supreme court overturned their ban on gay marriage. This is an unfortunate blow to family values and an institution that is already suffering from a high divorce rate and children being born out of wedlock.

Now, we must also deal with the problems that stem from gay marriage being acceptable in main stream America.

The Iowa supreme court announced earlier this week that a decision on the ban would most likely come out this morning, and when it did, a Pandora's box was opened on the state.

This is terrible news for our children, who will continue to grow up in a world without a real idea of what marriage is supposed to represent. Marriage is an institution set up for a man and woman. Anything other than one man and one woman in a marriage goes against God and his plan for mankind.

There are many reasons why gay marriage is a bad idea for our society, and every one of those reason was ignored by our justice system, just because a bunch of people kept whining until they found a judge who would back them up.

If marriage stops being defined as being between a man and woman, then what is to prevent the definition from expanding further? Right now it's being expanded to include men with men and women with women, but what's to stop the definition there? Why not men with men with women, or women with women with men? Why doesn't everyone just marry everyone else and get it over with already?

The bond between and a man and woman who love each other and raise a family together is something that can't be replicated by any other combination of people. A true family is that of a man, a woman, and their children. Each part of the family contributes differently, and when put together, the parts complete a whole. If you had a couple of the same parts, then the family would be missing a piece and be incomplete.

This is something that Iowa and some other states have yet to learn. Hopefully people will realize their mistakes before it's too late and marriage as we know it is gone forever.