{"id":529721,"date":"2010-04-16T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=82534"},"modified":"2010-04-16T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:13:00","slug":"iowa-anti-gay-marriage-group-pulls-in-over-3-million-in-federal-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/529721","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Anti-Gay Marriage Group Pulls in Over $3 Million in Federal Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, The Iowa Independent reported on an <a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/29958\/christian-group-says-gay-marriage-more-dangerous-than-smoking\">anti-gay marriage Christian group<\/a> that called homosexual activity \u201cmore dangerous for individuals who engage in it than is smoking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, they report that this same group, the Iowa Family Policy Center, has <a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/32199\/iowa-family-policy-center-received-3-million-in-federal-fund\">received over $3 million in federal funding<\/a>. <span id=\"more-82534\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Between 2004 and 2009 the politically influential Christian organization  <a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/tag\/iowa-family-policy-center\">Iowa  Family Policy Center<\/a> (IFPC) received more than $3 million in  federal grants through two subsidiaries of the U.S. Department of Health  and Human Services. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The money IFPC receives apparently goes to a marriage-counseling program  called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthy-marriage.com\/\">Marriage Matters<\/a>,  which offers couples weekends along with marriage and pre-marital  mentoring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, The Iowa Independent reported on an anti-gay marriage Christian group that called homosexual activity \u201cmore dangerous for individuals who engage in it than is smoking.\u201d Today, they report that this same group, the Iowa Family Policy Center, has received over $3 million in federal funding. Between 2004 and 2009 the politically influential Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}