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The Republican Party of Iowa will continue to lose elections if it empowers moderates who compromise on social issues, Bryan English said Monday on the blog of the Iowa Family Policy Center.
English, who serves as spokesman for the influential social conservative group, said the last thing the party needs is Republican wolves in  “conservative sheep’s [...]

The Iowa Family Policy Center has begun to intervene in the special election in House District 90, and Iowans for Tax Relief has upped its ante with a new television ad. Both groups are supporting Republican candidate Stephen Burgmeier.

I spent some time today checking up on the Web sites of Iowa political groups to see whether anything has changed, and I came upon something I hadn’t noticed before.

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 [...]

State Sen. Merlin Bartz (R-Grafton) has enlisted the help of the Iowa Family Policy Center to circulate petitions designed to encourage Iowa’s 99 county recorders to defy the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision in Varnum v. Brien that effectively legalized same-sex marriage.
According to instructions emailed out to the Iowa Family Policy Center’s members and posted on [...]

With legislators working to adjourn the 2009 session as quickly as possible, conservative groups with a long list of grievances will gather all week trying to make their voices heard.

Opponents of same-sex marriage say they will continue to fight to overturn last week’s Supreme Court ruling, but they admit their chances in the short term are slim.

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 [...]

Now that the Iowa Supreme Court has heard oral arguments about the constitutionality of same-sex marriage in Iowa, both sides are already preparing for the next phase of their struggle.

There is distinct frustration in the voices of Iowa social conservatives as they talk about the possibility of the Iowa Supreme Court striking down the state’s 1998 Defense of Marriage Act and allowing same-sex couples to wed.