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Spend enough time on the front lines of the culture wars, and it’s easy to become jaded by a sense that we’re fighting against the current. Unity on the right to life is hamstrung by rampant confusion about tactics, and LGBT activists’ shift from homosexuality to gender fluidity is thanks in no small part to the Right’s near-total surrender to the redefinition of marriage. But every once in a while, we get a reminder that cultural collapse isn’t inevitable. This week, that glimmer of hope came in the form of the Public Religion Research Institute’s latest annual survey of American attitudes on LGBT issues. Overall, the report was nothing to cheer — support for LGBT “nondiscrimination” (by which liberals don’t mean protecting gays or transgenders from actual mistreatment, but conscripting Christians into serving same-sex “weddings” and forcing people to share bathrooms and locker rooms with the opposite sex) has either held firm or risen among most demographics. But there was one...

Republican voters continue to be at odds with many party leaders and donors on the issue of marriage, a new national poll shows. Over three-quarters of GOP voters  support marriage being kept between a man and a woman, according to the poll, released last week by the Family Research Council and American Values. The release came a few days after the Nevada GOP decided to drop support for marriage from its platform, and in Illinois six of seven state party committee members  were replaced  after they pushed back against a former chairman's support for same-sex "marriage." A number of billionaire donors to the Republican Party are also supporting candidates who back same-sex "marriage," and  making other moves  to push the party to support changing the definition of marriage. According to American Values president Gary Bauer , the GOP should prioritize its voters' support for marriage, not the preference of party leaders and donors. "That b...