One Iowa in the News: After Two Divorces, Gingrich Takes a New Vow--No to Infidelity, No to Gay Marriage

from Marion Patch.

Still seeking a key endorsement from an influential Iowa evangelical group, Newt Gingrich vowed today that he would not cheat on his third wife and would do everything in his power to forbid gay people from marrying.

The letter Gingrich sent to The Family Leader is significant because the evangelical group has yet to endorse a candidate in the GOP nomination process and has promised not to back any candidate who has not signed its "Marriage Vow." The group's members were influential in helping Mike Huckabee win the Iowa caucuses in 2008.

The Family Leader last month narrowed its choices to Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry. Gingrich's letter could free the group to back him, attracting evangelicals who appear to be split among The Family Leader's four finalists.

"I will support sending a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the states for ratification," Gingrich wrote in the letter, attached to a Family Leader news release.

...Gingrich's letter, and the response from Vander Plaats, came as no suprise to One Iowa, the state's largest gay-advocacy group.

"Newt Gingrich is the last person to be telling people how their marriages should be run," Troy Price, One Iowa's executive director, told Patch. "At the same time it doesn't surprise us. The Family Leader has been looking for a way to endorse Gingrich for some time. You have to ask yourselves how seriously The Family Leader takes its own values."

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