Mike Delph

And he ran on a decidedly progressive platform in a conservative area of the state.

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana state senator at the center of this year’s legislative same-sex marriage battle is being honored by the conservative Indiana Family Institute. Republican Sen. Mike Delph of Carmel was named lawmaker of the year by the group Thursday night at a fundraiser in Carmel.

INDIANAPOLIS — The top Republicans in the Indiana Senate removed a conservative senator from a leadership position this week in the wake of an intraparty fight over amending the state’s constitution to ban gay marriage.