The GOP's DADT Fiasco
The Daily Beast's Mark McKinnon says the GOP needs to make an about-face on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" after Senate Republicans blocked Tuesday's vote to repeal the military's policy. As a Republican who supports gay rights, McKinnon calls out Republican Senators for "taking a huge step backward," and says that the party can't grow without reversing its stance. But the GOP is far from hegemonic on the issue; a group of prominent Republicans, including former GOP head Ken Mehlman, will gather in New York City on Wednesday night to hear the lawyers arguing for the repeal of Proposition 8. So despite the Montana Republican Party supporting keeping homosexual acts illegal and new GOP Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's comments that "homosexuality is an identity disorder," McKinnon argues that gays have a home in the new Republican Party.
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