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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.

The candidates and special interests vying for victory in the special election in House District 90 have spent more than $300,000 collectively, according to documents filed with the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board.

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.

One of the four men in House District 90’s special election Sept. 1 said he’s in the race because the Republican candidate is running away from his faith and core values.
Dan Cesar, a registered Republican who in 2008 garnered 1,600 votes in HD90 as a member of the Fourth of July Party, said he believes [...]

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 [...]

In what’s shaping up to be a hard fought race in House District 90, Republican Stephen Burgmeier has received the endorsement of anti-gay rights organization Everyday America.

In an open letter to Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, freshman Republican state Rep. Kent Sorenson of Indianola says his constituents are troubled and puzzled over poor decision made by the “statewide standard bearer for our party.”

Management at The Elkhart Truth in Elkhart, Indiana was unintentionally put in the center of the same-sex marriage debate this week when it published an Iowa couple’s marriage announcement.
The Iowa couple — Michael Berkey and James Chapin, both of Hanlontown — were featured in the newpaper’s July 12 engagement section because Berkey is a graduate [...]

A church famous for protesting the funerals of American soldiers and preaching a message of anti-Semitism and homophobia will return to Iowa next week for three rallies.
Fred Phelps and members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a fundamentalist splinter group from Kansas that travels around the country staging hate-filled protests, will be in Waukee, Ames and [...]