One Iowa in the News: National Organization for Marriage supporting Cindy Golding in Iowa Senate election

from The Des Moines Register.

The National Organization for Marriage is getting involved in Iowa’s special Senate election.

The group, which opposes same-sex marriage and was active in the effort last year to remove three state Supreme Court judges who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in the state, will distribute mailers supporting Republican candidate Cindy Golding.

...The first mailer argues that the “future of marriage” hangs in the balance of the election and contrasts Golding as the “traditional marriage” candidate against Democratic opponent Liz Mathis, who “supports gay marriage.”

“This is a pivotal election contest in our battle to allowing the people of Iowa the opportunity to vote to restore marriage,” NOM President Brian Brown said in a statement.

One Iowa, an advocacy working to protect the right of gay couples to marry in Iowa, issued a press release this afternoon accusing the National Organization of Marriage of “meddling” in the election.

“It comes as no surprise that the National Organization for Marriage and Bob Vander Plaats are trying to inject their particular brand of extremist politics into this election,” One Iowa Executive Director Troy Price said in a statement. “They have done it before, and they will do it again.”

But voters won’t be swayed by the marriage issue, Price argued.

“But just as when they tried to make a special election in 2009 about marriage equality, their efforts will not work, and on Election Day, the candidate who has best detailed a vision to improve the lives of all Iowans will win,” he said.

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