Some of the country’s most prominent anti-gay activists are set to invade Iowa this Monday, rolling from county to county in what the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council is calling the “Judge Bus Tour.”  The project aims to lecture Iowans about what’s wrong with their Supreme Court.
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   The idea is to draw attention to the normally sleepy campaigns to either retain or reject sitting Iowa Supreme Court justices.  Though the state’s high court ruled unanimously that same-sex couples should be able to legally marry, just three of the court’s seven justices are up for retention votes this year, so FRC is bringing in a who’s who of the anti-gay right to convince voters to oust them.
   One of the groups participating, the Mississippi-based American Family Association, has said gays and lesbians should be barred from public office, according to a report in the Iowa Independent.  AFA has been called an extremist hate group.
   Former Sen. Rick Santorum, who was perhaps the most anti-gay U.S. senator in Washington before he was dumped by Pennsylvania voters, will join FRC head Tony Perkins, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown and other people obsessed with homosexuality aboard what Gay Politics will hereafter refer to as “The Out-of-State Hate Bus.”


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