Indeed, Teabaggers and their defenders keep claiming that their movement has nothing to do with social issues, gays are welcome in the teabagging tent, etc. Really?

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — About 35 people gathered for a Tea Party rally in Council Bluffs calling for a ban on gay marriage and stricter abortion laws in Iowa.

Republican legislator Kim Pearson, of Pleasant Hill, was among the speakers at Saturday afternoon’s gathering at the Mid-America Center. The Daily Nonpareil reports that Pearson said a ban would be quicker to pass than a constitutional amendment.

Etc.

Same old Religious Right, just fitted with tri-cornered hats now!