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from Care2.com

...The Summer for Marriage tour has been perceived as going so badly for NOM that some have started to suspect that there may even be an ulterior motive behind it.

from The Iowa Independent

Just days before its planned rally at the state Capitol in opposition to same-sex marriage, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is robocalling Iowans soliciting donations.

Peter Hussman of the Newton Independent (no affiliation with this site) reports that the money will be used to help oust lawmakers and judges who do not oppose same-sex marriages. ...

from Joe Mirabella, Bilerico Project

A single young man, probably in his early 20s, was juggling phones and paperwork when we arrived at the Hertz satellite. "I'll be right with you both," he said smiling. He was giving instructions to a couple in Marion. It sounded like their insurance was going to pay for a car. ...

The young man processed my credit card and driver's license and said, "There is going to be an extra charge to have an additional driver even though you both live in the same apartment."

from Change.org

Many of us have heard that tired stereotype proffered by people against marriage equality, who say that allowing gay and lesbian couples to get hitched would result in an attack on traditional marriage. On a basic human level, many of us see right through that statement as just a talking point to deny a group of people their civil rights.

But on a purely statistical level, the "gays as threat to traditional marriage" argument carries absolutely no water, either. The proof is in the numbers. Exhibit A: Iowa.

from WOI-Des Moines

Target Corp.'s CEO on Tuesday defended the discount retailer's political donations to a Minnesota group helping the state's Republican candidate for governor, telling employees at its Minneapolis headquarters that the company's support of the gay community is "unwavering."

from the Sioux City Journal

Iowa ended a four-year slide in the number of couples getting married last year, but experts say the turnaround could have been aided in part by an April 2009 court ruling that legalized same-sex marriages.

Also, Iowa posted the lowest number of divorces since 1970 with 7,286 dissolutions, according to preliminary statistics issued by the state Department of Public Health. ...