Activists mount $1M campaign for GOP to endorse gay ‘marriage’
Two men in handshake during San Francisco Immoral Marriage March with banner "We all deserve the freedom to sin" (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) WASHINGTON, D.C. – The 2014 midterm elections are still months away, but a group of young Republican activists have set their sights on 2016 as they meet in Iowa this week to launch a planned two-year, $1 million effort to convince the GOP to adopt support for same-sex “marriage” as part of the party platform . “It’s time for the party to modernize on this issue,” Margaret Hoover of “Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry ” – a spinoff of the national “Freedom to Marry” homosexual advocacy group – told Politico . “Savvy 2016 candidates realize that this is not going to be a winning wedge issue .” Hoover and her colleagues from Freedom to Marry will hold several meetings in Iowa this week in an attempt to recruit supporters of same-sex “marriage” to run for slots as delegates for the National Republican Convention in 201