McCain Predicts Polk County Gay Marriage Ruling Will Be "Reversed"
Senator John McCain was in Gladbrook, Ia. on Sunday evening campaigning at a house party. He spoke on the lawn at the home of Lynn and Claire Handorf and then took questions from the audience and press. Regarding last week's Polk County ruling that allowed at least one gay couple to marry in Des Moines, Senator McCain said, "Smart people tell me that that decision will be reversed by a higher court." He says he would support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, "if there was a superior federal court that said that the states don't have the right to regulate the status of marriage...but I certainly don't [support an amendment] when the states are deciding."

The Arizona presidential candidate was in Iowa for a two-day campaign tour.

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