Iowa
At Least Nine or Ten Wingnuts Show Up For Launch of NOM’s Values Voter Bus Tour
More would have come to the Iowa state capital, but there was a two-for-one special on trans fats out in the suburbs. Here’s the local
More on the Hateful ‘Family Leader’ Pledge Michele Bachmann Signed
I mentioned in a post yesterday that Bob Vander Plaats, Iowa’s Most Unhinged Wingnut, and his organization the FAMiLY LEADER [sic] had drafted a pledge
Iowa Conservatives Doubling Down on Anti-Gay Agenda
No matter what the issue is, no matter what progress the rest of the nation is making, social conservatives are always moving in the opposite
The Bigots Are Accelerating Their Own Losses
One line from Amanda Marcotte’s piece this morning on the New York marriage win, and its concomitant right wing hysteria, grabbed me: There are 44
These Are The Kids We Fight For
There’s going to be a lot of talk in the coming days about the new conservative victimhood meme — oh you haven’t heard it? Conservatives
Newt Gingrich Bathed in Gay Glitter in Minnesota
Seriously, my headline is completely accurate. More information: (Minneapolis) –At a book signing in Minneapolis, recently declared the hippest and gayest city in America, local
The Deleterious Effects of ‘Second-Hand Gay’
The other day, marginal wingnut Bob Vander Plaats, who is spearheading the effort to take civil rights away from gay families in Iowa, compared the
Did Omaha-Area Church Do Enough to Prevent Ex-Gay Sexual Abuse?
The web site of Victory Fellowship Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa, has much in common with conservative evangelical churches that host fraudulent “ex-gay” ministries: It
Youth Pastor Helped Young Men Overcome Homosexuality By Having Gay Sex With Them
Well, I wish I could say this is unbelievable, but it’s unfortunately par for the course when it comes to extreme fundamentalists: A former youth
Iowa Pastor Knows More About Martin Luther King’s Beliefs Than King’s Wife Did
Here is Keith Ratliff, the pastor of the Maple Street Missionary Baptist Church in Des Moines, speaking to some sort of anti-gay rally in Iowa,
