AMES – Right wing conservatives gathered this weekend on the campus of Iowa State University for speeches and comradeship, and left wing liberals were livid at what they heard.
At the third annual Family Leadership Summit, big-shot politicians like Governor Terry Branstad, Joni Ernst, Steve King, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Senator Ted Cruz, former Senator Rick Santorum, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee were all on hand to blast the gay lifestyle and call for a closing of the southern border while promoting Christian values.
Bob Vander Plaats runs the extreme-conservative, Christian, Family Leader, which organized the event. The Family Leader said that the goal of the summit is to “to advance pro-family, pro-conservative, and pro-freedom conservative values.”
“One of the hopeful outcomes of the Summit is to bring conservatives together early and consistently in the process leading up to the 2016 elections,” Vander Plaats said.
There was a $20.14 cost for admission.
As they event unfolded Saturday, liberals blasted the comments made by speakers at the event.
“Iowa values were nowhere to be found today at the Family Leadership Summit,” Progress Iowa Executive Director Matt Sinovic said Saturday. “One speaker after another pandered to Vander Plaats, calling for our borders to be closed, our health care to be taken away, and for freedoms to be taken away from anyone whose lifestyle they disagree with.”
Sinovic said “Iowans are tolerant, accepting, and value the rights of every citizen. Unfortunately, those values were not on display by any of the speakers at today’s summit.”
