Tim Pawlenty will do three events with The Family Leader
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will participate in a three-city Iowa lecture tour organized by a controversial conservative organization on Feb
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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlentywill participate in a three-city Iowa lecture tour organized by a controversial conservative organization on Feb. 7.
Pawlenty will deliver a “pro-family lecture” followed by a structured Q&A facilitated by Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of The Family Leader, at events held at Pella Christian High School in Pella, the University of Iowa in Iowa City and Dordt College in Sioux Center, according to a release sent to the media.
The Minnesota Republican is the first potential presidential candidate to participate in the lecture series, with U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmannscheduled to join the series line-up on April 11; former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorumon May 2; and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and radio talk show host Herman Cainto join on an unspecified date.
And as the LGBT blog Good As You pointed out last month, The Family Leader is providing a seminar to churches around Iowa designed to help teach pastors about the “second-hand effects” of homosexuality, with lessons like “gay sex kills,” “homosexuality is not hardwired,” and “the public health crisis of same-sex activity.”
Chuck Hurley, president of Iowa Family Policy Center, argued last year that any religious leader who supports legalized same-sex marriageis “confused at best and blatantly evil at worst.” Later, while campaigning for the ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court judges who joined in the unanimous decision that legalized same-sex marriage, Hurley said the state needs laws that outlaw homosexual acts.
“In [the Iowa Supreme Court's] own opinion they discriminated against people who want to be polygamous,” Vander Plaats said at a forum hosted by Simpson College and The Iowa Independent. “They discriminate against people who want to be bisexual – one man, one woman. They discriminate, in their own opinion, against someone who wants to marry their own child.”