DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- Iowa Catholic leaders want voters to call for a rare constitutional convention in hopes the state can ban same-sex marriages.
Members of the Iowa Catholic Conference, comprised of church officials from Iowa's four Roman Catholic dioceses, issued a notice Monday supporting a Nov. 2 ballot question requiring a constitutional convention. That question appears on the ballot every decade, and if approved orders the Legislature to put in place a process for selecting delegates to the convention.
Changes to the Iowa Constitution proposed by the convention would then go before voters.
Iowans haven't called for a constitutional convention since 1920.
Tom Chapman, the group's executive director, say the convention would be the fastest way to overturn a 2009 Iowa Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage.
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