What happens in Iowa won’t stay in Iowa.

On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously struck down a ban on gay marriages and simultaneously lit a fire under extremists who are willing to say and do anything in order to marginalize or eliminate the third branch of our government.

The nearly 19-month long campaign in Iowa that followed the decision, which was paid for by reckless special interest groups and encouraged by out-of-state politicians, ended on November 2, 2010 when the extremists won, and three justices were voted off the bench.

Throughout the retention campaign, prospective presidential candidates pandered to the Iowa extremists who were attacking the judiciary:

• Rick Santorum traveled across the state to raise the campaign’s profile
• Newt Gingrich said the retention vote would be a “clarion call” to the legal secular elite
• Mitt Romney attacked the nonpartisan group of Iowa justices by calling them members of an “activist court”
• Tim Pawlenty encouraged the radicals to oust the judges if they disagreed with their ruling
• Mike Huckabee campaigned for the most radical gubernatorial candidate who later led the effort to oust the judges

After the dust had settled after the election, it became clear which presidential candidate had been working the hardest to pander to the extremists: Newt Gingrich.