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Civil rights groups to RNC: GOP should stop associating with anti-gay groups
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center and a coalition of civil rights groups on Wednesday called on the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) to urge party members to disassociate themselves from groups behind this week’s Values Voter Summit because of their relentless demonization of the LGBT community.
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I’m a senior GOP spokesman, and I’m gay. Let me get married.
Throughout my career I’ve publicly advocated for the freedom to marry, urging the party for which I work to allow gay men and women to wed even as I never openly disclosed my personal stake. I’ve preached the small-government virtues of equal marriage, echoing a conservative case that had been made many times before by thinkers more eloquent and far brighter than myself. Never once did I write that I am gay…
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Eighth GOP member of Congress announces support for marriage equality
U.S. Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.), a Tampa Bay-area Republican, said Monday he supported last week’s ruling by a Monroe County, Fla., judge who said Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage is discriminatory and violates gay people’s right to equal treatment under the law. “As a matter of my Christian faith, I believe in traditional marriage,” Jolly said in a statement. “But…
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Gay GOP candidate for U.S. House faces criticism from opposing camps
WASHINGTON — Carl DeMaio is one of three openly gay Republicans running for Congress this year, but he’s the only one who has managed to make political adversaries of both social conservative and gay rights organizations. He’s too open about his sexual orientation for some social conservatives, but too far to the right and too quiet on social issues …
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Republican governors’ rhetoric softening on same-sex marriage
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Deep in the nation’s Bible Belt, new signs emerged this weekend of an evolution among Republican governors on gay marriage, an explosive social issue that has divided America’s families and politics for years. While the Republican Party’s religious conservatives continue to fight against same-sex marriage, its governors appear to be…
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Sandy Rios claims Mark Kirk is a ‘closet homosexual’ out to ruin the GOP
On her radio program Wednesday, American Family Association government affairs director Sandy Rios fumed over Thad Cochran’s victory over Chris McDaniel in Mississippi’s runoff primary election, which she blamed on …
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Republican Sen. Susan Collins says she supports marriage equality
PORTLAND, Maine — Republican Sen. Susan Collins has come out in support of same-sex marriage for the first time after getting an endorsement from the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy organization. The Maine Republican provided her personal view when asked by several news organizations. She said she agrees with the decision of …
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Republican senator: Time for the GOP to quit fighting same-sex marriage
A Republican U.S. Senator from Wisconsin said Monday it was time for the GOP to beyond social issues such as same-sex marriage and focus on economic policy ahead of the 2014 and 2016 elections, arguing that the party should allow voters and states to enact marriage equality. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said in an appearance on…
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A 12-step recovery program for Rick Perry’s homosexuality problem
If you are gay, and you are wishing upon a star, it is probably not a good idea for it to be the Lone Star of Texas. This past week, that particular entity has been more than a little dim in terms of passing out bright news for gay people. The Texas anti-gay rhetoric has been more absurd, if that is possible, than it has been in other LGBT unfriendly states.
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Former high-ranking Mich. Republicans support same-sex marriage
DETROIT — Former high-ranking Republicans in the Michigan Legislature are urging a federal appeals court to allow same-sex marriage in the state. They filed a brief Monday at the Cincinnati-based court, urging it to affirm a March decision that threw out Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage.