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Values Voter Summit: GOP candidates plan weekend with anti-gay activists
This weekend, nearly every major GOP presidential candidate, along with the top two Republicans in the House of Representatives, will speak at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of the leaders of the movement to integrate fundamentalist Christianity and American politics.
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Herman Cain: Being gay is ‘a choice,’ and bring back ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain, appearing on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday, said he feels being gay “is a choice,” and that if elected President, he would reinstate “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the former ban on openly gay military service members.
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Cain says he should have defended gay soldier who was booed at GOP debate
With the exception of Herman Cain, the GOP presidential candidates were mostly quiet on Sunday following a scathing rebuke from President Barack Obama on Saturday evening for not coming to the defense of a gay soldier after audience members booed him during a recent Republican debate.
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GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich: Gay marriage is ‘a temporary aberration’
FORT DODGE, Iowa — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Friday called same-sex marriage “a temporary aberration that will dissipate.”
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Vice-President Joe Biden calls booing of gay soldier ‘reprehensible’
Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday called it “reprehensible” when audience members at a Republican presidential debate last week booed a gay soldier.
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Obama criticizes GOP; candidates mostly dismissive of audience boos of gay soldier
President Barack Obama on Sunday joined the critics with his own lambasting of the GOP presidential contenders, calling out the recent Republican candidate’s debate in which audience members booed a gay service member.
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Don’t believe Santorum’s claim about not hearing the audience boo the gay soldier
There continues to be so much fall out from the recent Republican presidential debate in which the candidates stood by and said nothing while members of the audience booed a gay solder….
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Time for LGBT people to get their heads in the game, be their own heroes
This piece is not a sell for Barack Obama, but a plea for the gay community to recognize who our true enemies are. It’s time we stop expecting a hero and be our own heroes. It’s time we start talking into account the cold fact that our struggle for equality is like a game of chess.
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Audience jeers gay soldier, applauds anti-gay Santorum during GOP debate
Audience members at Thursday nights GOP presidential debate booed a gay soldier who asked if the Republican candidates would reinstate the now repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that banned openly gay service members.
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Oregon Republicans strip anti-gay language from party platform
The Oregon Republican party has voted to the remove language from the official party platform that some members saw as needlessly hostile toward gays.