Tag Archives: Iowa

Outside the American Atheists Convention in Des Moines, Iowa last weekend.(Via – Good As You)

Thanks to a truckload of money funneled to them by Newt Gingrich, last year hate groups were able to unseat three of Iowa’s seven state Supreme Court justices over their backing of same-sex marriage. Yesterday GOP lawmakers in the state House filed impeachment charges against the four remaining justices. Here’s an excerpt of the charges against Justice David Wiggins: By …

“In 5,000 years of recorded human history… neither in the east or in the west… has any society ever defined marriage as anything other than between men and women. Not one in 5000 years of recorded human history. That’s an astounding fact and it isn’t until the last 12 years or so that we have seen for the first time …

Earlier this year the GOP awarded next year’s presidential convention to Tampa. But now GOP state organizations in Iowa and South Carolina say the convention must be relocated if Florida doesn’t move its primary to a date after theirs. Currently Florida’s primary is scheduled to be the first, an issue the GOP also squabbled over in 2008. Florida’s 2012 GOP …

Even if it costs you your job (?), Jeebus commands you to be spiritual warriors against the evil homosexuals who want to destroy America through loving, legal, long-term commitments. (Via – Right Wing Watch)

Prospective GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann showed up in Iowa yesterday to praise the anti-gay activists who unseated the “black-robed masters” in the state Supreme Court. Bachmann, speaking to a group of home school advocates, credited conservatives with sending a “shot across the bow” to judges throughout the country. “You said enough is enough and sent them …

Pastor Brent Girouex of Council Bluffs, Iowa told detectives that he had sex with the four boys he’s accused of molesting in order to help them achieve “sexual purity in the eyes of God.” Court documents indicated Girouex told investigators the most sexual contact he had was with one teen over a four-year period, starting when the boy was 14 …

According to Pastor Cary Gordon of the anti-gay Cornerstone Outreach, Iowa’s voters need to go to the ballots to “faithfully choose the same religion-sanctioned state our insufferable political enemies refuse to acknowledge.” Cuz if you don’t, the loving and almighty Jeebus is gonna kill the fuck out of you. They really need some new material. Starts at 14:00. (Via – …

Good As You points us to more bigotry at yesterday’s anti-gay marriage rally on the steps of the Iowa capitol building.

Last week the Los Angeles Times revealed that thrice-married serial adulterer Newt Gingrich had arranged for $200K in donations to unseat Iowa’s pro-gay state Supreme Court justices. Now it’s been learned that Gingrich sent $125K of that money directly to the anti-gay hate group, the American Family Association. Gingrich, the former U.S. House speaker who has aggressively courted the conservatives …

Yesterday failed gubernatorial candidate and Christianist hate group leader Bob Vander Platts led an anti-gay marriage rally on the steps of the Iowa capitol.

Speaking before Iowa’s anti-gay group Family Leader, Rep. Ron Paul said that “states have have a right” to establish same-sex marriage. That prompted a Paul aide to rush forward to remind the libertarian whackadoodle that he actually supported the ouster of Iowa’s Supreme Court justices. Last week he also condemned Obama’s decision on DOMA.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Newt Gingrich served as middleman for an anonymous donor who gave $200,000 in “seed money” to fund the successful campaign to oust three Iowa state Supreme Court justices. This year, several potential presidential candidates are vying for attention among religious conservatives. But only Gingrich was instrumental in the most heralded event of recent Christian …

A coalition of 29 Tea Party-backed GOP members of the Iowa House have introduced a bill that would grant criminal and civil immunity to any person who uses deadly force to prevent an abortion. The bill further stipulates that if the police do make an arrest in such a case, the arrested party has the right to sue them. House …

Another attempt to thwart civil rights in Iowa: County recorders would be prohibited from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples and the Iowa Supreme Court would be unable to rule on the issue under a new bill sponsored by six conservative House Republicans. House File 330 specifically says that the Supreme Court shall not be able to prohibit or restrict …

After his passionate speech defending his two moms to the Iowa legislature went viral, 18 year old Zach Wahls has become a media sensation. Today he appeared on Ellen. (Tipped by JMG reader Iowa Mike)

You just want to hug her and sit down for warm cookies.

Think Progress blogger Igor Volsky cornered Iowa marriage repeal sponsor Rep. Dwayne Alons to ask him if he agrees with local anti-gay activists that “same-sex marriage is worse for public health than smoking.” His response: Well, look at all that has been spent, you know, with the AIDS and with the issues related to the dying at an early age. …

“The Family Leader and other organizations have taken a position in favor of traditional marriage. I don’t distance myself from that position — I embrace it. I support the notion that we, as a society, should continue to elevate traditional marriage, that it should remain as between a man and a woman, and that all other domestic relationships are not …