Here come the right wing activists judges - for the sake of all please everyone VOTE and pay attention to every office no matter how small lest you end up with a homophobe like Clint McCance on the Arkansas Board of Education or judges like these.
MANY states have their judges up for re-election. I know there are right wing religious groups at work in California as well as Minnesota and Iowa so they undoubtedly are at work in other states as well. Please vote and encourage others to vote carefully on every election.
http://minnesotaindependent.com/71656/dan-griffithy-greg-wersal-tim-tingelstad-conservative-judicial-candidateThree statewide candidates are bucking longstanding tradition in the lead-up to Tuesday’s election: Judicial candidates Greg Wersal, Dan Griffith and Tim Tingelstad are openly weighing in on issues that could come before them if elected, and all three have endorsements by major political parties. Coming from tea party backgrounds, they have aligned themselves with the Republican Party, the Minnesota Family Council and, in one case, the Constitution Party of Minnesota, and fitting the conservative bent of those groups, the trio has opined about contentious social issues from abortion and homosexuality to the role of Christianity in schools and courtrooms. While these activities are legal, critics say that they could undermine the impartiality and nonpartisan nature of the judiciary.
Dan Griffith: Tea party activist opposes ban on religion in schools, government buildings
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Greg Wersal: Fought to overturn ban on party endorsements, fundraising in judicial races
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Tim Tingelstad: “Judges must be God-fearing men and women”
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http://minnesotaindependent.com/71656/dan-griffithy-greg-wersal-tim-tingelstad-conservative-judicial-candidateAlso:
Anti-retention leaders: Iowa just the start of national gay marriage battle
Campaign to 'take the country back' starts in the Hawkeye StateTheir organized push to oust three state Supreme Court justices may be coming to an end when voters go to the polls next week, but local and national leaders of the campaign said flatly on Thursday that Iowa is simply the first fight of a large-scale battle over gay rights in America.
Speaking in Des Moines on the final stop of a 20-city bus tour sponsored by his organization, Tony Perkins of the Washington-D.C. based Family Research Council said the Iowa Supreme Court justices, “unleashed chaos on the state of Iowa and the entire nation,” when they ruled unanimously in April 2009 that the ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Perkins said if Iowans vote “no” on retention, “you will send a message that goes around this country that Americans have had enough and we’re taking our country back and we’re starting right here in Iowa with this Supreme Court.”
Connie Ryan Terrell, executive director of the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa, said in a previous interview with The Iowa Independent that national anti-gay organizations have descended on Iowa in such large numbers because they want to “test in Iowa whether or not they can do something” about gay marriage. A handful of the nation’s most influential social conservative organizations — from the New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage to the Mississippi-based American Family Association — have united to spend nearly $1 million on the campaign to oust the judges thus far.
“People need to be aware that it seems this year all of the very right wing organizations have Iowa in their sights,” Ryan Terrell said in a phone interview. “That’s a scary proposition for our state and should be a red flag to Iowans.
http://iowaindependent.com/46519/anti-retention-leaders-iowa-just-the-start-of-gay-marriage-battle