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Confidential memos reveal strategies to fight same-sex marriage in Iowa (DesMoinesRegister)

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Confidential memos released by court order reveal how a national group targeted Iowa to “roll back gay marriage” and how it picked one particular Iowan as its initial go-to guy for strategy.

The National Organization for Marriage went to work in Iowa to fight same-sex marriage “just hours after” the Iowa Supreme Court ruling came down three years ago Tuesday, budgeted $1 million efforts here, and tapped Republican U.S. Rep. Steve King to “lay out a plan,” the memos show.

The marriage group has taken pains to keep its strategies private.

But details of its campaigns in Iowa and elsewhere emerged after it sued to block Maine officials from forcing it to make public the names of people who funded an effort to overturn the same-sex marriage law in that state.

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Complete article at Des Moines Register : http://dmreg.co/H4UeCx