Why are Republicans in bed with known anti-gay hate groups?

By Ken Williams

The Republicans and the Tea Party are hell-bent on making Barack Obama a one-term president, and their tactics are shameful at the very least.

Not only are the conservatives refusing to aid the effort to jump-start an awful economy that went into the toilet under the reckless spending and warmongering by President George W. Bush, one of their own, but they are doing everything in their power to demonize the LGBT community in a blatant attempt to turn out the vote of the Religious Right.

This weekend, most of the Republican presidential candidates -- including Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum -- are heading to Iowa, home of the first presidential primary in early January, to attend a political forum hosted by CitizenLink, the advocacy affiliate of anti-gay hate group Focus on the Family, and The Family Leader, Focus on the Family's Iowa policy group headed by anti-gay activist Bob Vander Plaats. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is also involved.

You know NOM, the organization that is listed as a known anti-gay hate group by the well-respected Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a watchdog of hate groups in the U.S.

The same NOM that violates campaign finance laws in efforts to derail marriage equality efforts across the U.S. NOM has sued 23 states to invalidate their elections laws in an attempt to bully their opponents and hide the identity of their donors.

“It’s appalling to see Republican candidates for president trooping to an event sponsored by an anti-gay group such as the so-called National Organization for Marriage (NOM),” said Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry, who recently wed his longtime partner in New York.

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