UPDATE: Did Two Men Get Kicked Out of Romney's Cedar Rapids Event for Being Gay?

Updated with comments from Chase Gunderson.

An Iowa City resident said he and a friend were kicked out of Mitt Romney's Cedar Rapids event last week because they are gay.

Self-described Romney supporter Chase Gunderson and his friend, Adam Peters — who referred to himself as an independent — said they were approached by Secret Service before the event started and were kicked out of the Republican presidential candidate's Oct. 24 speech.

"Mr. Romney- I may not support you... but my friend HAS and DID for the last 5 years," Peters wrote on his Facebook page. "Yet, we weren't allowed to attend? Why? Answer me that. WHY? Was it because we are gay or looked too flamboyant for your rally? What is it? Its not a surprise to me that you would treat someone this way... but it certainly came as a surprise to one of your ardent supporters. He now sees who you truly are. The guy who likes to take away rights and silence minorities."

The Romney campaign spokesperson Andrea Saul told U.S. News and World Report that Peters was thrown out because he's a known disruptive protester.

"We were informed by people on the ground that this gentleman was a known protester who has caused issues at previous events," Saul wrote in an email to U.S. News and World Report. "So [we] had him escorted off the premises to prevent any disruptions."

This is how Peters described that interaction on his page:

Two officers and one suited man (secret service) then approached us and said with a smile, "You need to leave." My first thought was that we were getting in the way of an important Congressman coming through, or even the candidate himself... so we walked a bit to the side. He then repeated that we needed to head to the exit and leave. They began to grow tighter around us. I said, "Excuse me?" He repeated again, "You need to leave." Chase than said, "I'm confused, I'm a supporter of Mitt Romney... we have tickets?" ... Another officer chimed in, "You need to leave."

I then asked, "Why?" ... "What is the reason?" The officer then said, "You either need to leave now or we will be forced to arrest you." ... "BUT WHY?" ... "Head to the front now."

Peters claims he is not a protester:

I've been to so many Republican rallies in the last 5 years. I've always been courteous. I've never heckled... I've greeted Mitt Romney in Muscatine and had my picture taken with him as well as with Santorum, Perry, Bachmann, Ron Paul, John McCain, etc

Gunderson corroberates.

"Adam has never caused a disturbance, heckled, or been asked to leave any Republican or Democratic event before."

Gunderson said they contacted the Urbandale Mitt Romney campaign office after the incident. Campaign workers told him they had no record of anyone getting kicked out of the rally.

The original Facebook post was shared nearly 2,000 times. Sympathetic comments have flooded both their personal pages. "Come on over to us Obamaites! We will love you unconditionally!" wrote one Facebook user on Gunderson's page.

But has all this changed Gunderson's support of the former Governor of Massachussetts?

"This incident has actually made me severely question my support of the Republican ticket," he wrote to Marion Patch. "I'm not going to assume that we were escorted out of the rally because we were gay, but I've never ruled it out of consideration."

Editor's note: The reporter attended class with Chase Gunderson at the University of Iowa.