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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...

Support for homosexual marriage is going down

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Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, 2008 US presidential candidate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Greetings from the great state of Florida, where marriage emerged from the platform fight with a great victory! In the buildup to the RNC Convention in Tampa, the Log Cabin Republicans and GOProud promised that a new generation of Margaret Hoover Republicans would help weaken the GOP 's commitment to marriage. This is part of a larger narrative of supposed inevitability that we always hear: "Support for gay marriage is growing everywhere." Except when it's not. The effort to get the GOP to retreat from marriage in Tampa was an epic fail for the seditious pro-gay marriage elites within the GOP! The director of the Log Cabin Republicans, R. Clarke Cooper , told the Boston Globe in July that his group's goal was to convince Republicans to strike any "anti-gay language" from the platform—including any mention that marriage is a union of male and ...

Activists dissatisfied Obama believes marriage a ‘state by state’ issue: ‘so was slavery’

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WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Although a host of top gay rights groups piled on the praise for President Obama’s marriage reversal this week, some say they are unhappy that the president didn’t go further by declaring opposition to the 39 U.S. states that define marriage as between a man and a woman. From the start of his 2008 presidential campaign up until an ABC interview that aired Wednesday, Obama had said he believed marriage was between a man and a woman, although he frequently hinted to gay rights audiences that he was “evolving” towards another stance. “At a certain point I just concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married,”  said Obama  this week. The incumbent’s about-face came days after Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan both expressed support for revamping marriage, resulting in a build-up of pressure on the president to m...

Ann Coulter Blasts Same-Sex “Marriage”

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Image via Wikipedia Conservative commentator Ann Coulter stayed true to her reputation for courting controversy during an address to homosexual conservatives in New York on Saturday, telling them that they did not need special rights and that marriage was the union of a man and a woman. According to reports, Coulter charmed her audience of 150 at the HomoCon fundraiser for GOProud with a number of jokes, admitting that it must have been difficult to come out of the closet and tell their parents that they were conservatives. But then the outspoken pundit said to her audience, “I should warn you: I've never failed to talk gays out of gay marriage." Talking Points Memo reported that Coulter explained to the crowd that she supports marriage as the union of a man and a woman, because the institution is fundamentally about the procreation of children. Coulter then stated frankly that keeping marriage defined and restricted to heterosexual couples does not violate homosexual...

Homosexuals are not oppressed

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 Conservative commentator Ann Coulter stayed true to her reputation for courting controversy during an address to homosexual conservatives in New York on Saturday, telling them that they did not need special rights and that marriage was the union of a man and a woman. According to reports, Coulter charmed her audience of 150 at the HomoCon fundraiser for GOProud with a number of jokes, admitting that it must have been difficult to come out of the closet and tell their parents that they were conservatives. But then the outspoken pundit said to her audience, “I should warn you: I've never failed to talk gays out of gay marriage ." Talking Points Memo reported that Coulter explained to the crowd that she supports marriage as the union of a man and a woman, because the institution is fundamentally about the procreation of children. Coulter then stated frankly that keeping marriage defined and restricted to heterosexual couples does not violate homosexuals’ civil rights . She a...