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Social conservative Chuck Hurley’s Iowa Family Policy Center has sent out another email to supporters, this time cautioning them that Iowa’s inclusion of same-sex couples in the institution of civil marriage will literally kill people.
After the past grueling months, and the marathon that has been the last three weeks, it’s good for us to be [...]

Chuck Hurley, former statesman and current president of the Iowa Family Policy Center, reflected on the past year in an e-mail to supporters today. Above all else, it seems, Hurley is thankful for journalists.
According to an independent media monitoring service, IFPC’s television media presence reached an audience of over 5 million viewers this year. News [...]

By the time I returned home after attending meetings last night, it was nearly Thursday morning. I made my way slowly through the dimly lit house, wanting little more than to collapse in bed beside my husband. When I entered the bedroom, however, the bed was full. Whether by nightmare or stomach ache, our 5-year-old [...]

On Friday, April 25, many students in Iowa and throughout the nation will participate in a national “Day of Silence,” an annual event held to bring attention to name-calling, bullying and harassment toward gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth in schools. It comes as little surprise that the passive activity has Chuck Hurley, president of [...]

Hundreds of Iowans rallied at the State Capitol on Wednesday, calling on lawmakers to allow a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in the state.

Led by a coalition of pastors, about 350 opponents of gay marriage gathered on the west steps of the Capitol for speeches and then marched to the [...]

The culture, more than the caucuses, is the focus of the Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC), according to its president, Chuck Hurley. This seems to differ from other organizations such as the Iowa Christian Alliance, Concerned Women for America of Iowa, Iowa Right to Life Committee, or the Network of Iowa Christian Home School Educators [...]

Via The Right's Field, the AP reports that more than 50 Iowa social conservatives will support Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback's quest for the presidency:
Chuck Hurley, a former state legislator and a leader among the state's religious conservatives, will head Brownback's "Faith and Family" committee. Hurley heads the conservative Iowa Family Policy Center, but he stressed [...]

Iowa lawmakers will be honored for helping to prevent discrimination against gays and lesbians as well as mandating that the state’s school districts establish anti-bullying policies.

The awards will be presented Friday during Iowa’s Matthew Shepard Scholarship Awards Dinner at the Hotel Fort Des Moines.
“I am extremely honored to have been a part of this legislation [...]