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GOP’s gay outreach plan fails as both homosexual candidates for House are defeated

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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

GOP says it will continue to fund homosexual candidates despite Congressman’s objections

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WASHINGTON, D.C., – As the National Republican Campaign Committee ( NRCC ) continues to tout two openly homosexual Congressional candidates as part of a “new generation” of Republicans who reflect the socially libertine values of voters under age 30, at least one Congressman is arguing that the GOP should not be funding candidates who oppose the party platform on social issues. Politico  reported  last week that Congressman Randy Forbes (R-Va.) has been privately urging GOP leaders to cut off campaign funding to Carl DeMaio and Richard Tisei , two openly gay candidates who are trying to unseat Democratic Congressmen in blue states – California and Massachusetts, respectively. Both DeMaio and Tisei break with the Republican platform by supporting same-sex “marriage” and legalized abortion-on-demand.  (As a state legislator, Tisei earned a 100 percent approval rating from NARAL and Planned Parenthood.) Rep. Forbes told Politico that while individual party leaders “can do wh