Bob Vander Plaats, head of Iowa’s Family Research Council affiliate the Family Leader More…, an organization opposed to rights for LGBT Iowans, endorsed Rick Santorum for the Iowa Caucuses on Tuesday. The Family Leader had previously declined to endorse any candidate in the GOP Caucuses, but Vander Plaats decided to
The Iowa Family Policy Center, a division of The Family Leader More…, did not comply with federal-grant protocol when it relinquished the last year of federal funding it received for a controversial marriage-counseling program, according to documents obtained by The American Independent under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
A chunk of federal money awarded to the Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC) — a division of The Family Leader More…, a Focus on the Family affiliate — between 2006 and 2010 was used to pay the salaries of officials who at the time were leading an anti-same-sex marriage campaign,
The Family Research Council, a religious-right outfit some watchdog organizations have called an anti-gay hate group More…, has recently become quite vocal in its opposition to government spending and has called for drastic cuts to social programs. But a survey by The American Independent shows that FRC’s state-based affiliates, called
The leader of South Carolina’s Focus on the Family affiliate, the Palmetto Family Council More…, was among several conservative leaders recently asked to weigh in on the same-sex-marriage views of speculated presidential contender Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Like many of the other leaders, Palmetto Family President Oran Smith was less
Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann have both appeared before Iowa’s Family Leader, a religious right group that has hosted a seminar that compares being gay or lesbian to second-hand smoking. The Family Leader is inviting all presumptive presidential candidates to speak at the group’s events More …
IOWA CITY, IA. — For weeks Rep. Michele Bachmann, a potential and popular 2012 Republican presidential hopeful, has been reminding Iowans that she is one of them More…. During an appearance on behalf of the socially conservative The Family Leader organization Monday night she invoked “Iowa nice” to prove her
During her speech at the Iowa-based Family Leader on Friday, potential presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann made a bold claim before the gathering of social conservatives: Sen. Al Franken, she said, stole the election against Sen. Norm Coleman, and that election is to blame for the passage of the national More…
