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View Poll Results: Regarding same sex marriage, I feel ...
Only heterosexual couples can be "married" 5 14.29%
Both heterosexual and homosexual couples can be "married" 19 54.29%
Heteros can marry, but same-sex should be a "civil" union 7 20.00%
Hetero marriage and same sex civil unions should get the same government tax breaks, etc. 3 8.57%
Only hetero marriage and hetero civil unions should get government tax breaks, etc. 1 2.86%
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Old 05-12-2012, 05:04 PM
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Andrew Sullivan of Daily Beast posted this last night, then again today, so it can get the media attention it deserves. Andrew got a hold of an internal GOP memo.

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Top GOP Pollster to GOP: Reverse On Gay Issues

[Re-posted from last night.]

Below is a remarkable document. It's a memo circulated by Jan van Lohuizen, a highly respected Republican pollster, (he polled for George W. Bush in 2004), to various leading Republican operatives, candidates and insiders. It's on the fast-shifting poll data on marriage equality and gay rights in general, and how that should affect Republican policy and language. And the pollster's conclusion is clear: if the GOP keeps up its current rhetoric and positions on gays and lesbians, it is in danger of marginalizing itself to irrelevance or worse.

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http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast....ay-issues.html
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Old 05-12-2012, 10:03 PM
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Andrew Sullivan of Daily Beast posted this last night, then again today, so it can get the media attention it deserves. Andrew got a hold of an internal GOP memo.
That is often times how the parties and candidates make their decisions. How do you think Obama decides his policy on gay marriage? He will be on whatever side of this issue he thinks will get him the most votes. On this issue, it is that simple.
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