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I GUESS the tent wasn't big enough after all. Meaning the "big tent" strategy dreamy-eyed Republicans have been touting since the '90s. Theirs was, they said, a party big enough to encompass people from all walks of life. Now we learn they meant all walks except the gay walk.
If this wasn't clear before (and it was), it sure is now, in the wake of revelations that Mark Foley, former congressman from Florida, was not-so-secretly gay and not-so-secretly sending explicit e-mails to teenage pages. For at least some in the GOP, the former seems the greater sin. Indeed, the party has responded to news of homosexuality in its midst with an uncoordinated clunkiness fascinating to those of us who've grown used to a GOP machine that hums along like a new car.See the full content of this document
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Gays Unwelcome in Gop
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich claimed that if the party had responded aggressively to Foley's e-mails, it would have been "accused of gay bashing." An...
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