Tag Archives: Iowa

Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

Clip recap: Marriages continue in Pennsylvania, but the Governor has filed suit to stop them. We’ll have the latest from that state, plus civil actions in Tennessee, new data from Hawaii, and more bad news for the National Organization for Marriage.

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Father Of Sen. Ted Cruz: Homosexual Marriage Makes Government Your God

The father of Sen. Ted Cruz spoke this weekend at an Iowa “family” event co-sponsored by NOM. In a fiery speech Saturday at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Pastor Rafael Cruz laid out a number of socialist doomsday scenarios that he claimed are playing out in the United States, likening President Barack Obama to Fidel Castro. “Socialism requires …

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Brian Brown Vs Fred Karger

“The National Organization for Marriage has violated no campaign finance rules in Iowa, and we decry the decision by the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board to open an investigation. This inquiry is a witch hunt spawned by a delusional homosexual activist who fancies himself becoming the president of the United States and who is a serial filer of frivolous …

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Iowa To Investigate NOM’s Finances

NOM will be investigated for cloaking its donors during the successful campaign to unseat three Iowa state Supreme Court justices who backed same-sex marriage. The Iowa Ethics & Campaign Disclosure Board voted unanimously to investigate the National Organization for Marriage, saying that if the allegations against it are proven true, the marriage group’s actions would violate state law. The decision …

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The Greatest Thing You’ll See Today

An Iowa woman recorded her neighbor as she confronted her for harvesting rhubarb from near her back fence. The resulting outburst from already virally-famous Rhubarb Lady could have been scripted by John Waters. Seriously, this is like an outtake from Serial Mom and I can’t stop laughing. (Via Gawker)

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Complaint By Fred Karger Triggers FEC Investigation Of Rick Santorum

Former GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger, the eternal thorn in the backside of NOM, has struck again. The Federal Election Commission is asking former presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats and an anti-gay marriage organization to tell the agency why it should not investigate an allegation that they violated campaign finance limits during the last election. …

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At Iowa City Pride

Via this Instagram account. (Tipped by JMG reader Cheryl)

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IOWA: Gay Couple Wins $147K Judgment For Harassment By Maintenance Man

An Iowa gay couple has won a $147K judgment against the management of their apartment complex because they failed to stop harassment by their maintenance man. Jurors awarded $22,000 in economic damages to Charles Anderson and Brandon Morehead, plus $50,000 for emotional distress and $75,000 in punitive damages, according to a news release issued by the Iowa Civil Rights Commission, …

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Iowa Hate Group Leader Bob Vander Plaats: We’ll Reverse Same-Sex Marriage

But maybe not in our lifetime.

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IOWA: Bizarre Gay Marriage Fraud Case

A former Iowa court official pleaded guilty yesterday to filing a fraudulent marriage license on behalf of a Florida gay couple that she’d only spoken to on the phone. Former Grundy County deputy clerk Brigitte Van Nice, 42, received a fine and a suspended sentence after entering the guilty pleas to perjury and forgery charges at the courthouse in Grundy …

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HRC Cheers Four Years Of Iowa Marriage

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage on April 3rd, 2009 and the first couples got their licenses four years ago tomorrow. Cute clip.

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Iowa GOP Launches Bill To Cut Pay Of Pro-Gay State Supreme Court Justices

Yesterday a group of GOP Iowa state representatives introduced a budget amendment to cut the pay of the four state Supreme Court justices that ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in 2009. “It’s our responsibility to maintain the balance of power” between the three co-equal branches of government, Rep. Tom Shaw [PHOTO], R-Laurens, said Tuesday. The justices “trashed the separation …

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Iowa Celebrates Four Years Of Marriage

One Iowa cheers via press release: Today, April 3, marks the four-year anniversary of the historic marriage decision in Iowa. On April 3, 2009, the Iowa State Supreme Court unanimously ruled that excluding gay and lesbian couples from marriage violated the equal protection clause of the state Constitution. Since then, roughly 6,000 couples have wed in Iowa. The case was …

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Romney Senior Advisor Backs Marriage

Former Romney campaign senior advisor Dave Kochel has endorsed marriage equality as part of an Iowa event intended to draw young people to the Republican Party. Kochel helped to organize an event for the Iowa Republicans for Freedom. Monday, January 28th, the group will sponsor an event with Ken Mehlman, a former Republican National Committee Chairman and key adviser to …

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Iowa Hate Group: We Had A Great Year

Translation: “Yeah, we pretty must lost every single battle, but hey, shit happens. Send us more money!”

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Iowa’s Justice Wiggins WINS Retention

All of those “Dump Wiggins” bus tours and nasty television ads by NOM and the FRC did little to convince Iowa’s voters, who today resoundingly affirmed their faith in Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins by an almost ten-point margin.  Ooh, this one’s really gotta hurt!

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AFER’s Matt Baume Reports On Battle To Unseat Gay-Friendly Iowa Justice

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Iowa Hate Group Posts “Highlights Reel” Of Fight To Unseat Pro-Gay Judge

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IOWA: Jindal Shills For NOM’s Hate Tour

As always, the audience is in the tens. (Via Good As You)

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IOWA: Hate Group Launches Bus Tour To Unseat Pro-Gay Supreme Court Justice

Iowa’s Family Leader hate group is launching a statewide bus tour which will demand that voters unseat state Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins for his blasphemous crime of upholding the civil rights guaranteed all Americans by the U.S. Constitution.

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