Sioux City residents, Chuck Swaggerty and Jason Morgan shared their story with the Sioux City Journal. The couple is one of the plaintiffs in Lambda Legal’s Varnum v. Brien case that has been appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court.

From the Sioux City Journal:

Sioux City couple at center of gay marriage debate
By Bret Hayworth Journal staff writer

SIOUX CITY — On a late July evening, the parents bathe their two children, putting them into pajamas just before 8 p.m.

The couple then spend time playing with their boys, talking a bit about how exhausting parenting can be and how parenthood limits the trips away they can take.

One leans over to help 1-year-old Reed blow his nose while the other rolls a ball with Ta’John, age 3. Ta’John, they say, will invariably come down from his upstairs bedroom five times nightly before finally falling asleep.

It’s an otherwise ordinary life filled with laundry, work on the house and lawn and dining at home on chicken and rice.

Yet, in the eyes of many, the family forged by Chuck and Jason is anything but ordinary. While their home life may be “boring,” the two are also the plaintiffs Swaggerty and Morgan in a groundbreaking gay marriage case making its way through the Iowa court system.

Read the complete article over at the Sioux City Journal.

For more information on the marriage case, check out One Iowa’s marriage resources.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 at 9:27 am and is filed under News.