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Group That Opposes Gay Marriage Now Targeting Iowa
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8/26/2009
"A group that helped to outlaw gay marriage in California is turning its focus to Iowa, hoping to begin the long process of overturning a state Supreme Court decision earlier this year that legalized same-sex marriage.
"...Camilla Taylor, an attorney for Lambda Legal, the national group that represented several same-sex couples in a lawsuit that led to April's Iowa Supreme Court decision, said the latest campaign doesn't come [as] a surprise.
"'They specialize in fear-mongering and scare tactics and it's also clear in many cases their ads are fundraising ploys more than anything else,' Taylor said. 'We're very confident that Iowans ... have no desire to write discrimination into their constitution.'"
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