Pastor meetings In the 1990s Lane organized his first pastor meetings in California, where he lives, and in Texas. The Texas Restoration Project spent $1.26 million on six pastor briefing meetings in 2005 in support of Governor
Rick Perry, and "Judeo-Christian values". Dan Quinn of the TFN said, "this ruling is disappointing because it will embolden wealthy special interests who want to funnel money into nonprofits as a backdoor way to drag churches into partisan campaigns." The proposition passed, restricting California marriages to being only between one man and one woman. It was soon challenged, and overturned in 2008 by the
California Supreme Court. The Texas campaign for
Proposition 2 passed overwhelmingly. The Florida measure is known as
Amendment 2, and Ohio's is referred to as
State Issue 1.
Iowa Supreme Court justices In November 2010, voters in Iowa removed three
Iowa Supreme Court justices: David Baker, Michael Streit, and Chief Justice Marsha Ternus. The justices lost their seats primarily because of what they believed was their constitutional stance in a 2009 decision allowing same-sex couples to marry.
The New York Times reported that Lane was the "unheralded mastermind" of the campaign against the justices, directing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Gingrich and from the AFA. A pastor from Iowa said, "God used David Lane and his sphere of influence to bring together all the elements" of a broad strategy to unseat the justices. ==References==