As the GOP continues to front compassionate to lure swing-voters, its homophobia continues unabated. In fact, the conservative gay-rights group Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) is so angry with the GOP that it has threatened to withhold its endorsement. This is not an insignificant move. According to the RNC one million gays and lesbians voters cast ballots for Bush in 2000. (How SCARY is that?).

Gay-rights issues have played out in a range of recent stories that have been less prominent in the media. Late last month, VP Cheney spoke of his gay daughter and inferred that he disagreed with the Bush position on supporting a constitutional amendment to prevent gay marriage.

Then this Wednesday, the hate-mongering Alan Keyes described homosexuality as "selfish hedonism" and called Cheney's daughter a sinner. (And, yes, this is the same guy who compared abortion to slavery last month).

Less publicized still has been the shocking resignation of uber-conservative Virginia Congressman Edward Shrock, an outspoken critic of gay marriage and supporter of the Federal Marriage Amendment, after a gay-rights activist and blogger released a recording of a phone call allegedly placed by the congressman to a gay dating service several years ago. While there is some savory irony to this twist, the tactics and implication of outing public figures, no matter what their politics, is EXTREMELY problematic.

Finally, the ongoing feud between the GOP and the gay Republicans has raised troubling questions about media censorship. The LCR purchased advertising space for a TV ad criticizing the party's intolerance, which features criticisms of right-wing figures such as Pat Buchanan and includes a photo of the uber-evil Fred Phelps picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard. According to the group, CNN refused to run the ad claiming it was "inappropriate" and MSNBC wouldn’t run it because Buchanan is on their staff. WOW. So much for the liberal media theory...

--Contributed by Brendan