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GOProud Praises Ambassador John Bolton for Iowa Speech
Today, in Des Moines, former U.N. Ambassador and potential 2012 Presidential candidate John Bolton delivered a powerful speech at the Conservative Principles Conference. In his speech, the straight-talking conservative spoke eloquently about the need for the Republican Party to emphasise a strong and confident American foreign policy.
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Gay Censorship of Right-wing GOP Support for Gays….
The other day I posted an op-ed regarding how younger GOP operatives must go mum on their support for gay rights when they agree to work for older, prominent GOP candidates for high-profile offices. It’s called the “generational change” in the conservative Republican Party, where younger right-wingers support gay rights, but their boss does not.
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Younger GOP Operatives at Odds with Candidates
It’s become a political truism to say that there is a generational divide with respect to gay rights, as polling data bears out the fact that younger voters, even conservatives, are far more in favour of same-sex marriage than their elders.
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GOProud Makes Progress…and Big Mistake at Right Wing Conference
GOProud is a group of Gay libertarian-Republicans who defected from the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR). Unlike LCR, they hope to be a voice for Gays who find mindless liberalism unappealing, and Log Cabin to be an echo of the Gay Left.
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Florida Doctors Dump Log Cabin GOP, Launch Successful New Gay GOP Group
In 2009, medical Dr. Ben Lewis-Bullard, founded a new decidedly right wing Gay Republican Club that became the 3rd largest GOP Club in Fort Lauderdale and Broward County, Florida.
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Gay Government Workers and the Wisconsin Public Unions
The public unions battle in Wisconsin is not a specific gay-issue, but it does affect many gays who work as government employees.