{"id":2695,"date":"2010-08-28T02:14:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T09:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2010-08-28T02:14:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T09:14:32","slug":"gay-hating-afa-goes-after-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/28\/gay-hating-afa-goes-after-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Hating AFA Goes After Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Family Association is at it again.  Now they are collecting funds to campaign against judges.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"28bigotsAFA\"<\/a> As right-wing groups prepare to spend $400 million on the upcoming election, an anti-gay group has formed in Iowa to oust three state supreme court justices who joined that court\u2019s unanimous opinion endorsing marriage equality<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Vander Plaats, who lost in the June gubernatorial primary, announced this month the creation of Iowa for Freedom<\/span> [bigots delinked], which has rented office space and hired six full-time staff members. The group plans to act like any other political campaign, with mailers, phone calls and door-knocking, Vander Plaats said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a campaign to get rid of these judges. What do you think of that?<\/span>\u201d he called out to a man in a gray trucker hat at the fair.<\/p>\n

Although Vander Plaats wants his organization to appear like a grassroots effort, the group\u2019s website indicates that it is funded by AFA Action [AFA Delinked], the political arm of the virulently anti-gay American Family Association\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

In case you have forgotten, the AFA is the same group of Supply-side Jesus (the Republican invention to justify their hateful positions, not the real Jesus) fanatics that said<\/a>  our troops in Iraq died for nothing, because they failed to to convert the Iraqi population to rabid right religion.  These Republicans also proposed<\/a> that Christian women must become brood mares and have enough children to take over the government, despite the prohibitions in the First Amendment.<\/font><\/p>\n

While I defend their right to their views, I insist on my right to expose them.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Family Association is at it again.  Now they are collecting funds to campaign against judges. As right-wing groups prepare to spend $400 million on the upcoming election, an anti-gay group has formed in Iowa to oust three state supreme court justices who joined that court\u2019s unanimous opinion endorsing marriage equality: Vander Plaats, who […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}