“More than 150 Iowa ‘faith leaders’ have announced they are supporting Donald Trump in the state’s forthcoming caucuses…. These endorsements came days before the release of Tim Alberta’s book ‘The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism.’” - Cal Thomas
“…a crucial segment of the Iowa Republican electorate: evangelicals, who comprise more than a third — 37 percent — of Iowa Republicans, according to Pew Research Center data.” - The Gazette
“So many people say policy over personality, but it’s, I personally did not vote for Trump because I couldn’t get past the personality….I have three sons and I want them to have a president that they can admire and look up to and want to be like.” - NBC News
“Reynolds ordered the rare session after the state Supreme Court declined in June to reinstate a practically identical law that she signed in 2018.” - C.Index
“[Bob] Vander Plaats, the president and chief executive of The Family Leader…told The Times that the state’s influential evangelical bloc had not forgotten about the former president’s comments.” - Business Insider
“[W]hat if the cases that dominate the headlines (in addition to being fundamentally mischaracterized) actually represent an insignificant fraction of the total religious-liberty cases in the country?” - National Review
“The Iowa legislature on Wednesday approved a measure to ban abortions once a heartbeat is detected, or as early as six weeks of gestation.” Jurist
“The Iowa Senate on Wednesday voted 30-20 to approve a draft of an anti-abortion bill that would ban most abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat.” Jurist
Bibles in Iowa schools sparks outrage, but this Iowa City class takes Bible learning in stride
