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An automated call featuring one of Terry Branstad’s former lieutenant governors asking Republicans to support same-sex marriage has drawn the ire of social conservatives.

Chuck Swaggerty and Jason Morgan may not be a typical Iowa family, if there is such a thing, but they feel more satisfied with their lives.
In an interview with Bret Hayworth of the Sioux City Journal, the men, who were plaintiffs in the case before the Iowa Supreme Court that made same-sex marriages legal in [...]

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has brought 52 fellow Republicans together on a letter demanding the resignation of Kevin Jennings, the White House’s “safe schools czar.” Greg Sargent looks at the text of the letter, and how it maintains (wrongly) that Jennings covered up child sexual abuse. Here are the other Republicans:

Representatives from three Iowa regional tourism bureaus flew to California to let same-sex couples attending Gay Days at the Disneyland Resort know that they are welcome in the Hawkeye State.
The annual Anaheim event, which is neither sponsored nor discouraged by Disney, hosts roughly 30,000 attendees.

An attorney for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) says their group is in complete compliance with Iowa campaign finance law in spite of allegations to the contrary.
In a letter to Charlie Smithson, executive director of the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board, the New Jersey-based organization that opposes same-sex marriage said some groups continute [...]

The state’s largest gay rights organization and a progressive religious group have filed a formal complaint against the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board.
One Iowa and the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa filed the complaint Monday alleging that NOM, a New Jersey-based group that opposes same-sex marriage, violated Iowa [...]

An Iowa-based political action committee that supports marriage rights for same-sex couples is working to raise $10,000 by midnight Friday in the hopes of countering the huge investment made by an anti-gay marriage organization in the special election in House District 90.

Iowans are already aware that the National Organization for Marriage is targeting the Iowa House District 90 special election with advertising, but residents may not be aware that NOM hopes that one election is just the beginning.
Brian Brown, executive director of the conservative group that opposes same-sex marriage rights, has sent out notice of a [...]

According to a report filed with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board yesterday, the anti-gay marriage group National Organization for Marriage has purchased $86,060 worth of television and radio ads to support Stephen Burgmeier, the Republican candidate in the special election in Iowa House District 90.

A newspaper in Utah, presented with a California gay couple’s wedding announcement, has stated its policy is to provide such paid coverage only for marriages legal under its own state law.
The decision by Gannett-owned The Spectrum in St. George, Utah, is the opposite of what Indiana-based The Elkheart Truth decided when a same-sex couple from [...]