GOP and Christofascists Continue Effort to Terrorize Judiciary

Iowa religious extremists who would fit in well with the Taliban together with their political prostitutes in the Republican Party are continuing their efforts to terrorize and intimidate Iowa's judiciary as part of their effort to undermine the United States Constitution and enshrine their hate and ignorance based religious dogmas on all Iowans.   These people truly ought to move to Iran or Saudi Arabia or the hinterland of Pakistan's northwest regions where the self-styled godly folk openly kill and terrorize those who don't subscribe to their religious beliefs.  The mind set is truly the same.  But back to Iowa.  The latest target of the Christofascist lynch mob mentality is Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins who was part of the Court that unanimously struck Iowa's ban against same sex marriage.  As the Des Moines Register reports, the foul forces of the far right are seeking to remove Wiggins from the Court in this November's elections.  Iowa GOP Chairman A.J. Spiker (pictured at left - and who probably secretly yearns for some hot man on man action from the looks of him) is leading the charge.  I find the effort frightening and like something one would expect in either an Islamic extremist nation or in Nazi Germany.   These people are a clear and present danger to constitutional government in this nation.  Here are story highlights:

The Republican Party of Iowa’s chairman is pushing for the ouster of one of the authors of a court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in Iowa.  Gay marriage instantly became a political hot button in Iowa after the ruling three years ago, but there has been little urgency behind the issue this year.

Chairman A.J. Spiker, in a statement emailed across Iowa this morning, called for Iowans to vote against Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins to “help end the bullying of activist judges once and for all.”  The Nov. 6 general election ballots will ask whether Wiggins should retain his seat on the bench. He is the fourth justice to come up for a retention vote since the court’s unanimous ruling in spring 2009. The first three justices, Marsha Ternus, David Baker and Michael Streit, were ousted by Iowa voters in fall 2010.

Several factors have taken some of the shine off the issue, including the passage of time, according to Iowa political insiders.  Iowans have been targeted with an avalanche of political advertising this summer, but marriage isn’t one of the messages they’re being bombarded with via TV commercials.

The three previous justices thought it was unseemly to campaign for themselves, but Wiggins appears more willing to advocate for his own retention.

Conservatives have unsuccessfully pushed for the Iowa Legislature to allow the public to vote on a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. A majority of Iowans oppose such a ban, a Des Moines Register Iowa Poll in February found.

One can only hope that the effort to remove Wiggins is unsuccessful.  As for Spiker, maybe if he goes to some really dark gay bar and finds someone really, really intoxicated, then he might have a chance to deal with the underlying cause of his homophobia.