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It’s the gays, stupid … or is it?

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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Republicans got handed a crushing defeat last November, no doubt about it.  In the aftermath of those crushing losses, the party is scrambling to figure out exactly what went wrong … and try to fix it.  A growing number of social libertarians within the GOP are looking to homosexuals as the salvation of the party.  One of them is Lawson Bader, president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). Bader, who took the helm of CEI just two months ago,  hosted  an unofficial panel/happy hour at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) called “Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance out of the Closet.”  The panel, which featured  National Review ’s Jonah Goldberg , GOProud president Jimmy LaSalvia,  Washington Post  columnist Jennifer Rubin,  Margaret Hoover , and libertarian strategist Liz Mair, was held in reaction to CPAC officials declining to...

CPAC sponsor to host pro-gay panel

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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 12, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – After the Conservative Political Action Conference ( CPAC ) denied a featured role to a homosexual “marriage” advocacy organization, one of CPAC's sponsors has decided to hold a panel promoting the acceptance of homosexuality at the annual gathering. The Competitive Enterprise Institute has gathered a six-person panel entitled, “A Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance Out of the Closet.” It will include two members of GOProud , President Jimmy DeSalvia and Liz Mair. They will speak with supportive figures such as Fox News analyst Margaret Hoover,  National Review  Editor Jonah Goldberg,  Washington Post “conservative” columnist Jennifer Rubin ,  and Fred Smith Jr. of CEI. “As a [CPAC] sponsor, CEI gets use of a room for two hours,” said CEI spokesman Brian McNicoll, who says he ran the theme of the panel past CPAC before announcing it to the public.  “This is the re...