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		<title>Conservative policies good for all Americans, including gays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In talking to pjmedia, GOProud Executive Director Jimmy LaSalvia focused on the group&#8217;s efforts to communicate &#8220;why conservative principles are good for different constituencies.&#8221;  Nice to see this movie away from the identity politics practiced by other gay groups.  The issue is not legislation specifying sexual orientation, but adopting policies which don&#8217;t single out any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/conservative-policies-good-for-all-americans-including-gays/</link>
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		<title>Mitt Must Pitch Bold Reform Plan to Win Conservatives to his Cause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Mitt Romney can succeed in energizing conservatives behind his candidacy, he could conceivably lock up the nomination by Super Tuesday and put himself in a strong position to defeat Barack Obama come November. That, however, is a big &#8220;if.&#8221; Since Santorum&#8217;s sweep on Tuesday, a number of conservative commentators and bloggers have come to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/mitt-must-pitch-bold-reform-plan-to-win-conservatives-to-his-cause/</link>
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		<title>When it comes to the business of governing, Obama is absent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The president, as I noted last month in my brief review of his State of the Union address, indicated that he was “prepared to make more reforms that rein in the long term costs of Medicare and Medicaid&#8221;. Only problem was that he failed to put forward any of his own. At another point in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/when-it-comes-to-the-business-of-governing-obama-is-absent/</link>
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		<title>No, you don&#8217;t need a state sanction to get married</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long before civil governments granted marriage licenses, men and women had been getting married for generations.  Most had their unions sanctified in a church or other religious institution. Yet, too many advocates of gay marriage whine that, until the state acts, they can&#8217;t married.  Hogwash.  No, most states still won&#8217;t recognize their unions as marriages, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/no-you-dont-need-state-sanction-to-get-married/</link>
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		<title>Washington State recognizes same-sex marriages the right way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Washington State House passed a bill to recognize same-sex marriages, following the action last week of the state Senate.  Governor Christine Gregoire &#8220;is expected to sign the measure into law next week.&#8221; This is exactly how states should go about recognizing same-sex relationships, with elected legislators deciding the matter.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/washington-state-recognizes-same-sex-marriages-the-right-way/</link>
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		<title>HuffPo to fault Obama campaign for Super PAC coordination?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do wonder if the Huffington Post&#8217;s Sam Stein is going to get upset about the Obama campaign&#8217;s decision to enlist Superpacs in its reelection efforts.  After all, the call is coming from the campaign itself. Tuesday night, after Rick Santorum swept the beauty contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, he caught &#8220;Foster Freiss, the main [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/huffpo-to-fault-obama-campaign-for-super-pac-coordination/</link>
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		<title>AFA Boycott of J.C. Penney likely to fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, the American Family Association (AFA) has announced a boycott.  And once again, my liberal Facebook friends are up in arms. Relax, guys (and gals), this is likely to be just as effective as their boycott of Disney.  The company didn&#8217;t back down and continued to offer benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/09/afa-boycott-of-j-c-penney-likely-to-fail/</link>
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		<title>Rick Santorum, Conservative Ideas &amp; the Anti-anti-gay attitudes of most Americans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just over two weeks ago, I asked, &#8220;Where is the conservative candidate at this conservative moment?&#8221; If this election were held on which party had the best vision for the future of America, the Republicans, should they hew to Reagan&#8217;s ideals, would win hands-down. Polls show a continuing, if not growing, distrust of the federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/08/rick-santorum-conservative-ideas-the-anti-anti-gay-attitudes-of-most-aamericans/</link>
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		<title>Scott Walker:  progressive reformer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Lane penned a great column on the Gipper&#8217;s birthday about a reformist in the traditional of Ronald Reagan.  The former editor of the center-left New Republic observed that &#8220;The threat to such progressive goals as majority rule, transparent government, a vibrant public sector and equality comes from public-sector unionism&#8220;: Of course, collective bargaining in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/08/scott-walker-progressive/</link>
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		<title>Why marriage matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Ninth Circuit&#8217;s overturning Prop 8 yesterday as unconstitutional, it is important to take a step back from the overheated rhetoric in the debate on state recognition of same-sex marriage &#8212; a debate which alas has offered more heat than light &#8212; and attempt to offer that light, to illuminate the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/08/why-marriage-matters/</link>
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		<title>Mitt Romney needs to go bold &#8212; or go home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All three of the contests last night were beauty contests where none of the four remaining candidates invested significant resources.  No wonder turnout was low.  That said, supporters of one candidate were particularly enthusiastic and Rick Santorum scored big, sweeping all three. More than anything, this suggests a longing among conservatives for a standard bearer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/08/mitt-romney-needs-to-go-bold-or-go-home/</link>
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		<title>Is Newt&#8217;s Political Day Done?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was indeed, as Michael Barone put it, a bad night for Mitt Romney.  It was an even worse night for Newt Gingrich who finished third in Colorado and fourth in Minnesota. &#8220;Gingrich’s days,&#8221; writes Jennifer Rubins offering the consensus opinion of conservative bloggers, &#8220;as the leading not-Romney are just about over. His baggage has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/08/is-newts-political-day-done/</link>
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		<title>When insinuation replaces argument</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I should not have offered that &#8220;personal note&#8221; I had offered yesterday.  With Bruce busy and me manning the fort, sometimes it seems I can&#8217;t meet the expectations of our readers for regular content on a variety of issues, particularly those of concern to our community.  Especially when I have other projects to complete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/08/when-insinuation-replaces-argument/</link>
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		<title>Barone:  GOP candidates must remind young voters that ours is the party of options</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 2008 campaign (and its immediate aftermath), I talked to a lot of young voters enthusiastic about Barack Obama.  When I asked many why they supported the Chicago politician, they repeated the usual bromides about how their guy was a different kind of politician who would change the way things were done in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/barone-gop-candidates-must-remind-young-voters-that-ours-is-the-party-of-options/</link>
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		<title>Personal Note #1&#8211;Those days when Sisyphus can&#8217;t push the rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been sketching out this post at least since November when I finally got around to finishing up &#8211;and sending in&#8211;the first round of proofreading of my dissertation (needed so Pacifica has a clean copy for its library). A lot has been on my mind, only a limited amount related to politics.  I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/personal-note-1-those-days-when-sisyphus-cant-push-the-rock/</link>
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		<title>9th Circuit declares Prop 8 Unconstitutional</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the decision. Decision is by Judge Stephen Reinhardt who is &#8220;one of the most-reversed judges before the Supreme Court&#8220;. He just handed the Republicans a campaign issue.  They can make the case that unelected judges should not be resolving issues which the constitution entrusted to legislators &#8212; and the people themselves. UPDATE:  I apologize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/9th-circuit-declares-prop-8-unconstitutional/</link>
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		<title>Tennessee Restauraunter Evicts Legislator Who Made Anti-Gay Remarks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reader MV alerted me to this story about how &#8220;Martha Boggs, the owner of Knoxville&#8217;s The Bistro at the Bijou, asked [Tennessee Senator Stacey] Campfield to leave after he tried to dine at her establishment.&#8221;  The Senator had introduced a &#8220;prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom before the ninth grade&#8220;. According to Metropulse blog, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/tennessee-restauraunter-evicts-legislator-who-made-anti-gay-remarks/</link>
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		<title>Prop 8 Decision Expected Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just caught this on Memeorandum: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit&#8217;s public information office expects a ruling on Tuesday, Feb. 7 by 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern Time in the Perry v. Brown case challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8. &#8220;Regardless of how the 9th Circuit rules,&#8221; writes Howard Mintz in the San [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/prop-8-decision-expected-today/</link>
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		<title>Americans frustrated that Obama can&#8217;t force Congress to do his will?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wonder how Matt Lauer and his colleagues in the legacy media would have reacted had George W. Bush expressed a similar frustration: I think this is the nature of being President. What&#8217;s frustrated people is that I have not been able to force Congress to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008. Well, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/americans-frustrated-that-obama-cant-force-congress-to-do-his-will/</link>
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		<title>Is abortion the defining issue of the American left?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Particularly since I moved to Los Angeles, I&#8217;ve observed that for many on the left cultural issues account for their political leanings.  So focused are they on such issues as abortion and gay marriage that they assume these are the defining issues for the two major political parties in the United States.  In reality, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gaypatriot.net/2012/02/07/is-abortion-the-defining-issue-of-the-american-left/</link>
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