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Activists mount $1M campaign for GOP to endorse gay ‘marriage’

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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...

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...

News Corp., parent company of Fox News, to publish mag promoting gay ‘marriage’

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Fox News’ parent company, the conservative-leaning, Rupert Mordoch-owned News Corporation, is preparing to publish a magazine devoted to homosexual “marriage” in the wake of its legalization in New York. The September 29 debut of “WEDDING Pride” by News Corp. ’s Community Newspaper Group has drawn fire from both homosexual supporters, who have slammed the move as a transparent case of financial opportunism, as well as conservatives concerned about what the move says about the future of News Corp and Fox . “It has come to my attention that News Corp, parent company to virulently homophobic Fox News and NY Post doesn’t apparently hate the gays enough to not make a buck off them, if the opportunity presents itself,” quipped one writer on the liberal Daily Kos blog. Peter LaBarbera of Americas for Truth about Homosexuality  said , however, that “Conservative and faith-based Americans do not look to Fox to promote sin.” “And yet, every time Fox promotes homosexuality, that’s exactl...