Iowa: Rivals debate same-sex “marriage” vote

Quad-City Times: “Danny Carroll of Grinnell, Iowa, chairman of the Iowa Family Policy Center, said forces working to block an effort to bring a constitutional amendment on the marriage issue before voters are doing so because they’re ‘pretty sure they’ll lose.’ Carroll, a former state lawmaker, spoke on Iowa Public Television’s ‘Iowa Press’ show, which is scheduled to air Sunday . . . Brad Clark, campaign manager for One Iowa, the state’s largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender advocacy group, challenged Carroll’s contention. ‘I don’t know that that’s the case,’ he said. ‘What we’ve seen in Iowa, according to some polls, is that Iowans are evenly split on the issue of writing discrimination into the Constitution.’”