Gay Republicans: GOP on ‘wrong side of history’

Posted on September 7, 2008
Filed Under Gay News Blog

A group of gay and lesbian Republicans has traveled to the site of the GOP convention this week to help convince its party that it is time to stop being on the “wrong side” of the same-sex marriage issue.

“Clearly, the tide is turning,” said Scott Tucker, communications director for the Log Cabin Republicans. “It’s important for the Republican Party to be inclusive on this issue, because we are risk of being on the wrong side of history.”

Although the group’s president, Patrick Sammon, acknowledges that few politicians in either party support “marriage equality,” as the group dubs the same-sex marriage issue, “it’s clear momentum is on our side.”

Sammon and other Log Cabin Republicans pointed to a poll indicating that the party is starting to move closer to their positions.

A CBS News/New York Times poll released Monday found that 49 percent of the delegates to the Republican convention support allowing same-sex marriages or civil unions. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.

A CNN/Opinion Research Poll conducted in May found that nearly half of those surveyed supported either same-sex marriages or civil union. Twenty-four percent supported same-sex marriages, while 27 percent backed civil unions. Forty-three percent backed neither option. The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Gay Republicans: GOP on ‘wrong side of history’
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