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NY GOP donors backing push to recognize gay marriage

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It is an article of faith among the gay left that Republicans hate gay people.  A paucity of evidence notwithstanding act as if animosity toward homosexuals is a defining principle of the GOP.  Yet, an article in the New York Times indicates that some Republicans are actually the driving financial force behind the effort to achieve state recognition of marriage the right way in the Empire State — through the elected legislature:

As gay rights advocates intensify their campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, the bulk of their money is coming from an unexpected source: a group of conservative financiers and wealthy donors to the Republican Party, most of whom are known for bankrolling right-leaning candidates and causes.

heir behind-the-scenes financial support — about $1 million in donations, delivered in recent weeks to a new coalition of gay rights organizations — could alter the political calculus of Albany lawmakers, especially the Republican state senators in whose hands the fate of gay marriage rests.

Seems a lot of my readers have been alerting me to this article, including one who sent me a link to this Stephen H. Miller post on the Times piece.

Do hope this article will cause some on the gay left to reconsider their prejudice.  Yet, for some reason, I don’t think this bit of news will alter some people’s hardened views.

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  1. Yet, for some reason, I don’t think this bit of news will alter some people’s hardened views. – – -BDB I think you have some readers here at GP a tad bit farther right of center that fit this description also.

  2. more from the NYT. . .love these two adorable men and their shared interests.
    Two Straight Athletes Combat HomophobiaBy JOHN BRANCH
    Published: May 13, 2011
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    LinkedinDiggMySpacePermalink. Ben Cohen is a world-class English rugby star, and Hudson Taylor is a three-time college all-American wrestler. They live on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. They barely know each other.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/sports/two-straight-athletes-combat-homophobia.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

  3. Wait a minute. You mean we Republicans really believe in “personal liberty, small government”? I thought that was just a schtick because deep down we’re all really just a bunch of homophobic, Islamophobic, racists who want old people to die and hate puppies.

    It turns out we’re homophobes trying to get gay marriage passed and Tea Party racists who are stoked about a Herman Cain candidacy for president. Reality is crushing the Democrat’s narrative.

    What happens if they figure out Repubicans don’t really want old people to die and actually like puppies?

  6. Ben Cohen has been a focused, real supporter of Tolerance and Acceptance (the bona fide type) for quite a while now. He has now announced his intention to retire from his fantastic rugby career to run his charity foundation for acceptance fulltime.

  9. What’s conservative about redefining the word marriage? Rockefeller Republicans support partially aborting babies too. But then neck-breaking has been redefined as choice, right? One word: Orwellian.