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National gay conservatives group ‘GOProud’ endorses Mitt Romney
The Board of Directors of “GOProud,” the national organization of gay conservatives, voted Tuesday to endorse presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and said it was “prepared to commit significant resources” to ensure his victory.
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Roundup: MT GOP wants to imprison gays, flawed study on gay parenting
A new study tries to show that the kids of gay and lesbian parents are worse off than the kids of straight parents. We’ll take a look at all of the problems with that study, and there’s a lot of them. Montana Democrats endorse marriage equality, while Montana Republicans call for throwing gay couples in jail.
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Utah GOP official’s wife calls gay candidate ‘wicked,’ ‘pathetic’
SALT LAKE CITY — While kicking off his campaign in Utah, openly-gay Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger was called “pathetic” and an “idiot” by Nanette Billings, wife of Washington County Republican Party Chairman Willie Billings.
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Leaked GOP memo reveals supports for same-sex marriage
A leaked memo urges an about-face for anti-equality Republicans. A civil unions bill dies in Colorado, for now. But access to marriage expands in Rhode Island, and more new surveys confirm the ever-growing public support for equality.
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Mississippi lawmaker cites Bible passage that calls for gays to be put to death
JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi state lawmaker, commenting on the announcement by President Barack Obama affirming support for same-sex marriage, invoked an old testament bible passage on his Facebook page, calling for gay men to be “put to death.”
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RNC Chairman: Gays deserve ‘dignity and respect,’ but not marriage
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Sunday said that he supports “dignity and respect” for all Americans, including gays and lesbians, but doesn’t agree that applies to same-sex marriage.
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GOP’s Allen West: Obama will lose the Black vote over gay marriage
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will lose a huge percentage of the African-American vote in his bid for re-election becuase he said he now supports full marriage equality, says GOP Congressman Allen West, (R-Fla.) a member of the House Tea Party Caucus.
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Missouri GOP lawmaker comes out while denouncing ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
JEFFRSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Republican state lawmaker, Zachary Wyatt on Wednesday publicly came out to his colleagues during a press conference asking for the withdrawal of Missouri’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill.”
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Karger’s ‘sexy frisbee’ campaign video yanked by YouTube as ‘inappropriate’
SAN BRUNO, Calif. — A campaign video by openly gay GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger — that ended with a brief kiss by two men on a California beach, was removed by YouTube late yesterday because it violated YouTube’s community policies.
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GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger to air groundbreaking ad featuring gay kiss
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Fred Karger, the first openly gay Republican presidential candidate in American politics, is making history again by releasing the first-ever campaign ad containing a gay kiss.