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Rick Perry, looking to score votes from GOP bigots, signs anti-gay pledge
DES MOINES — Texas Governor Rick Perry, looking to jump start his floundering presidential campaign, has signed the extreme anti-gay pledge that requires GOP candidates to be faithful to their spouses, appoint bigoted judges to the federal bench if elected, and “vigorously oppose” same-sex unions.
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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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Romney to share stage with Bryan Fischer; PFAW urges candidates to denounce bigotry
American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer will not only be speaking at the upcoming Values Voter Summit, but will immediately follow Mitt Romney. Today, People For the American Way is calling on Romney and fellow Republican presidential candidates to condemn Fischer’s unmitigated bigotry rather than lending it legitimacy by appearing with him.
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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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To the Republicans — We should go back into the political closet
Now that Wednesday night’s Republican Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is history, it is important that we look back at what was said – or more accurately what was not said – during the debate.
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Republican presidential candidates pushed to move even farther to the right
In the third nationally televised GOP presidential debate, none of the eight candidates on the stage strayed from their already stated positions on marriage for same-sex couples, but there was some pushing and prodding for several of the candidates to move even farther to the right.
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New Balance distances itself from Chairman’s donation to Romney’s anti-gay campaign
Athletic footwear company New Balance, is distancing itself from news that its Chairman, James Davis, contributed $500,000 to Mitt Romney’s campaign for President — Romney is one of four GOP hopefuls that have signed the NOM’s pledge to oppose marriage equality.
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Romney, Bachmann, Santorum, Pawlenty sign NOM’s anti-gay marriage pledge
Not to be out-bigoted by Iowa homophobe Bob Vander Plaats and his anti-gay outfit “The Family Leader,” the National Organization for Marriage has prepared its own “Marriage Pledge” for the 2012 GOP Presidential hopefuls to sign.
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Mitt Romney will not sign ‘undignified and inappropriate’ anti-gay pledge
In a move that instantly outclasses GOP competitors Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has announced he will not sign the conservative Iowa Christian group’s pledge opposing, among other things, marriage equality.
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GOP debate: Candidates offer some surprises on LGBT-related issues
The seven Republican presidential candidates showed some differences on gay-related issues in their first high-profile debate Monday night — with some surprises.