Mike Tidmus

A high-ranking Iowa Republican official, reacting to Californians Against Hate‘s role in bringing the National Organization for Marriage to justice in Maine, has vowed, via an email, to ‘abort’ the political aspirations of the group’s founder, Fred Karger. Karger and Californians Against Hate have aggressively hounded anti-marriage equality organzations across the country — including NOM and the Mormon Church — to force them to comply with local ethics and election laws and to be transparent about the sources and individuals that are opposing equality for LGBT Americans.

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Iowa’s Republican National Committeeman sent an e-mail this week to a gay member of his party who is considering a run for president and told him he would work overtime to ensure that his campaign aspirations are aborted.
“You and the radical homosexual community want to harass supporters of REAL marriage,” Steve Scheffler wrote in an e-mail to Fred Karger, a longtime civil rights advocate in California who is gay and has announced he is running for president. “. . . I will work overtime to help ensure that your political aspirations are aborted right here in Iowa.”

Fred Karger expressed shock: “The fact that he made such hateful comments, I think is very offensive. I certainly think he owes me an apology.”

The right-wing windbag acknowledged writing the nasty email, but offered no apology.

Wuss.