GOP’s gay outreach plan fails as both homosexual candidates for House are defeated
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) After five days of ballot counting, it’s official – neither of the two openly homosexual Republican candidates for U.S. House won their races last Tuesday. They lost despite strong public backing from Speaker of the House John Boehner , R-OH, and other high-profile GOP leaders, who aggressively promoted the two men as part of their “Young Guns” recruitment program after concluding in a post-2012 election report that the party’s position against same-sex “marriage” was hurting them with millennial voters. In Massachusetts , former state senator Richard Tisei was defeated by 14 percentage points by Democrat Seth Moulton, a former Marine and combat veteran. Previously, Tisei had boycotted the state GOP convention because of its position against same-sex “marriage.” “I don’t want to go and be seen in any way to be endorsing that,” said Tisei, who “married” his boyfriend Bernie Starr last year. “I don’t real