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Pawlenty meeting with The Family Leader next month
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will reportedly sit down next month with The Family Leader, a social conservative organization that includes the Iowa Family Policy Center, The Des Moines Register...
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Hearing on gay marriage ban scheduled for today in Iowa House
An Iowa House subcommittee will begin the process of amending the state’s constitution to ban all legal recognition of same-sex relationships by holding the first hearing on House Joint Resolution 6...
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Vander Plaats says he had no role in anti-gay seminars
IOWA CITY — Saying that he is touring the state in order to speak truth in a loving way, the man behind one of the state’s largest socially conservative political networks denied Monday that he had...
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Pawlenty in Iowa: American society must ‘elevate traditional marriage’
IOWA CITY — Nearly every public policy issue that can be named has a direct impact on the very foundation of American society, according to former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, which is a traditional...
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The Family Leader scrubs website of link to anti-gay seminars
A link to a seminar series that presents homosexuality and its “second-hand effects” as a public health threat has been removed from the website of The Family Leader. Julie Summa, director of marketing...
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Video: Faith-based march for marriage equality and independent judiciary
CEDAR RAPIDS — More than 100 people converged along 1st Avenue in front of Town & Country Center Tuesday evening to express their support for an independent judiciary and marriage rights for...
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Group administers Indiana federally-funded marriage program while leading...
The anti-gay, politically influential Christian organization the Indiana Family Institute (IFI) has been endorsed by the State of Indiana as “collaborative partner” in administering the state’s...
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Family Research Council decries government spending while affiliates take in...
The Family Research Council, a religious-right outfit some watchdog organizations have called an anti-gay hate group, has recently become quite vocal in its opposition to government spending and has...
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AP finds spending overlap in Iowa Focus on the Family affiliate’s use of $2M...
A chunk of federal money awarded to the Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC) — a division of The Family Leader, a Focus on the Family affiliate — between 2006 and 2010 was used to pay the salaries of...
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Ethical questions remain over federal funds received by Iowa FRC affiliate
The Iowa Family Policy Center, a division of The Family Leader, did not comply with federal-grant protocol when it relinquished the last year of federal funding it received for a controversial...
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