Gay Republican Group Won't Endorse Bush
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Leaders of the largest group for gay men and lesbians in the Republican Party voted overwhelmingly against endorsing President Bush for re-election because he favors a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, The New York Times said on Wednesday.
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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R), who once advocated allowing gays to serve openly in the military, said yesterday that he does not think the Pentagon should change its "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the midst of the Iraq war.
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The U.S. House of Representatives  failed on Thursday to muster the two-thirds majority needed to  pass a proposed constitutional amendment backed by President  Bush to ban gay marriage.
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US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faces a Senate no-confidence vote, despite the backing of President Bush.
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Republicans endorsed an uncompromising position against gay unions Wednesday in a manifesto that contrasts with Vice President Dick Cheney's supportive comments about gay rights and the moderate face the party will show at next week's national convention.
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Presidential hopefuls from President George W. Bush's Republican Party have an uphill battle ahead of the 2008 elections, stung by their support for the unpopular Iraq war and outshone by Democratic star power.
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WASHINGTON - The House followed the Senate in decisively rejecting a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, ending for this year debate on what has become the dominant issue for the Republican Party's conservative base.    The 227-186 vote in the House Thursday was well short of the two-thirds majority needed to advance a constitutional amendment, but fulfilled a promise by backers to get lawmakers on the record on the highly sensitive issue in the run-up to Election Day...
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DENVER, Sept. 19 -- James Dobson, one of the nation's most politically influential evangelical Christians, made it clear in a message to friends this week that he will not support Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson.
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Christian conservatives, whose lack of enthusiasm for George W. Bush in 2000 worried Republicans, could be the president's ace in the hole in his race for re-election this time around.
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President Bush, however, declined to condemn the commercial paid for by a veterans group opposed to John Kerry.
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President Bush on Friday rallied his party's conservative wing to unite behind the Republican nominee in the battle for the presidency, but avoided mention of John McCain, the leading candidate and presumed winner who has a history of clashing with his party's right flank.
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A Washington sex scandal has some in President George W. Bush's Republican party worried that traditional supporters will be so put off as to stay home on election day a month away.
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Republican Rudy Giuliani declined to tell a voter on Tuesday where he agrees and disagrees with conservative members of his party, saying it's about more than "just an ideology."
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Anything goes in ultra-tolerant California -- anything, that is, except being a Republican, forcing some supporters of conservative US President George W. Bush into the political closet.
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Gen. Peter Pace declined today to apologize for saying that he believes homosexuality is âimmoral.â
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Republican Mitt Romney criticized his Democratic rivals Thursday for not rejecting the inclusion of gay-related issues in sex education for second-graders.
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A Republican gay rights group uses images of former President Reagan and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in a new ad to counter what it calls "shameful and outrageous" language against same-sex unions in the party's platform.