News has hit today that the lone major gay Republican political group, the Log Cabin Republicans (the name ties to Lincoln), are splitting. Conservatives are initiating the breakaway - calling their fellow Cabin colleagues too liberal. Their new group will be called GOProud. There's been a minor yet noticeable effort on behalf of moderate Republicans to try to reel in a little bit of the gay vote - but party leaders support for anti-marriage equality ballot measures keep about 3/4 of the gay vote with Democrats. Presence is a good thing - but I don't think that having 2 gay Republican groups as opposed to 1 is going to sway the GOP much on LGBT issues.
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