Virginia Republicans continue to show their love for the gays...by nominating the most aggressively anti-gay candidates possible. 

This weekend Virginia GOP delegates nominated virulently anti-gay, Tea Party extremist E.W. Jackson as their Lieutenant Governor nominee. He joins a gubernatorial ticket led by state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. You remember Cuccinelli. He's the one that tried and failed to keep Virginia's anti-sodomy laws on the books, despite them being declared unconstitutional.

As for Jackson....well, he makes Cuccinelli look like Obama. 

Check out his track record of opposition to the gays after the jump.

In an effort to protect religious freedom (seriously), Republicans in Washington state have filed a bill that would give businesses the right to deny services on the basis of religious belief. 

Hmm...slippery slope...

Details after the jump.

The Log Cabin Republicans are calling out the GOP on their anti-gay political stance in a new ad published today on Politico. 

Could the gay conservative group finally be growing tired of the second (or third) class status they're being given within their own party?

Check out the ad after the jump.

Embattled Illinois Republican Party chairman Pat Brady has survived another day.

Brady, who controversially came out in support of marriage equality earlier this year, has been the target of many conservatives after stepping outside the party line when he expressed his personal views on same-sex marriage.

Still, it looks like he won't be going anywhere (at least not this year).

More after the jump!

Young Republicans in support of marriage equality want the older members of their party to wake up. 

Check out an excerpt from a Politico op-ed piece from former member of the Republican National Committee political division, Dan Meyers, after the jump. 

As Republicans convene this week to assess their party's arguably failing platform, social conservatives are threatening to jump ship if the party takes any steps in the direction towards equality.

Thirteen influential wingnuts (joined, of course, by hate group leader Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council) penned a letter to the Republican National Committee telling them to affirm the party's 2012 platform, which supported a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and supported the Defense of Marriage Act, or face abandonment by their socially conservative base.

More after the jump.

Rick Santorum has decided to dispense the wisdom that helped him have a failing presidential campaign to his republican colleagues who are slowly but surely coming out for marriage equality.

So, what does Rick have to say about the changing tide of the GOP?

Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk joined ranks with GOP Senator Rob Portman in support of marriage equality today--making them the only two Republican Senators to publicly come out in support of same-sex marriage.

Check out Kirk's classy statement after the jump.

Is Rush Limbaugh admitting defeat?

The conservative radio host acknowledges that "the genie is out of the bottle" and that nationawide marriage equality is "inevitable."

Is this real life??

Listen after the jump. 

Ouch.

When even Bill O'Reilly thinks you're too conservative, you might want to take some internal stock.

In a segment about the SCOTUS marriage equality hearings from his Fox News show on Tuesday, O'Reilly made it clear which side he thinks has the best chance.

When Sen. Rob Portman publicly revealed that his son Will had come out as gay and was therefore evolving to politically support marriage equality, much of the media attention was understandably placed on the elder Portman. But today, thanks to help from the Yale Daily News, Will Portman has a chance in the spotlight.

And he certainly doesn't let it go to waste.

It's been a tough week for hate group leader Tony Perkins.

It's clear more than ever that his friends in the GOP are on the verge of leaving his outmoded discriminatory views behind in favor of being on the right side of history. If the trend holds up, says Tony, and the 2016 Republican presidential candidates wise up and support civil marriage for all Americans, then he will start a third party.