First, it was shifty Iowa GOP Governor Terry Branstad, who finally had to say something about the Iowa Governor's Conference on LGBTQ Youth that he won't be attending because of a "scheduling conflict" and from which he was accused of having underlings try to remove his office's name.
After finding out that ducking questions about the machinations didn't make the issue disappear, Branstad finally told reporters he won't try to have the word "Governor" removed from the anti-gay bullying confab, saying (when backed into a corner) “I believe in treating everybody with respect and dignity and certainly we want to make sure that nobody is bullied.”
Which caused Vander Plaats to fling blocks from his personal stash of refrigerator magnet phrases in the following order: “Governor Branstad needs to be held accountable for his support of this conference and the promotion of a very radical and dangerous left-wing agenda,”
Which caused to Branstad to chuckle publicly at a news conference at Vander Plaats' remarks.
No matter. The voices in Vander Plaats' head just regrouped and decided to go after a new target, Starbucks, after the company joined Microsoft and Nike and 97 other top Washington State companies in supporting marriage equality there.
Specifically, Vander Plaats made a video trashing Starbucks' with invented quotations employing more of his refrigerator magnet phrases. Not only did these not stick either, but Starbucks apparently got mad and its lawyers got even, resulting in Vander Plaats quickly removing his YouTube attack video.
Clearly, Vander Plaats is in way over his head waging a war of ideological extortion on a deep-pocketed organization evidently willing to call him — and the Iowa Family Leader — on their lies, to the point of offering to see one or both of them in court.
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* “God’s design of marriage is bad for families.”
“Homosexual marriage is core to who they are.”
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