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Courtesy of Think Progress, here’s a roundup of all the anti-gay crap said at yesterday’s GOP debate in Iowa.

Even with appearances by GOP presidential candidates, NOM’s hate tour through Iowa has been attracting tens of attendees at most stops, with some locations drawing “only a handful” of interested bigots. They just never learn.

I’ll be breaking down some of the responses in separate posts, but here’s the bulk of the debate portion that covered social issues.

There are more media than supporters in that “crowd.” (Via – Good As You)

“I can call this napkin a paper towel. But it is a napkin. And why? Because it is what it is. Right? You can call it whatever you want, but it doesn’t change the character of what it is. So when people come out and say that marriage is something else — marriage is the marriage of five people, five, …

The latest edition of NOM’s summer hate bus tour kicked off today in Iowa with doomed GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty. Good As You has the list of the anti-gay hate group leaders featured in the above photo. It appears that this year’s tour is drawing the same tens of supporters as last year’s laugh-fest did.

According to a Rasmussen poll released today, Michele Bachmann has a one-point edge over Mitt Romney for Saturday’s Iowa straw poll.

Last June while doing a YouTube search on the term “ex-gay”, I came across a video so outrageously ridiculous that it quickly went viral after its posting here on JMG. Here’s what I wrote that day. Adam Hood says gays must be quarantined or else “they’ll bring their gangrene into heaven.” Supposedly Hood became “ex-gay” after “finding God in the …

Think Progress delivers the below clip of Iowa Family Leader head Bob Vander Plaats laughing at a “faggot” joke. Plaats’ group is the author of the virulently anti-gay marriage vow signed by Bachmann and Santorum.

NOM heralds this ad with “The race for marriage voters in Iowa intensifies!!”

Mitt Romney has refused to sign the virulently anti-gay pledge that the hate group Iowa Leader is demanding of all GOP presidential candidates. Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for Romney, told The Associated Press in a written statement Tuesday that Romney “strongly supports traditional marriage,” but that the oath “contained references and provisions that were undignified and inappropriate for a presidential …

“This ‘pledge’ is nothing short of a promise to discriminate against everyone who makes a personal choice that doesn’t fit into a particular definition of ‘virtue’. While the Family Leader pledge covers just about every other so-called virtue they can think of, the one that is conspicuously missing is tolerance. In one concise document, they manage to condemn gays, single …

Iowa’s anti-gay hate group, Family Leader, has convinced Rep. Michele Bachmann to sign their lengthy “contract” with political candidates who must vow, among other things, that they believe that homosexuality is a choice. More on the pledge: Presidential candidates who sign the pledge must agree to personal fidelity to his or her spouse, the appointment of “faithful constitutionalists” as judges, …

“Our organization’s number one goal between now and November 2012 is defeating Barack Obama. We look forward to the Iowa Straw Poll as the kickoff to this effort. Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House has been an unmitigated disaster for all Americans, including gay and lesbian Americans. Defeating Barack Obama and putting a conservative in the White House should …