{"id":5966,"date":"2012-04-03T21:38:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T21:38:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-03-06T21:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:42:24","slug":"republicans-retreat-in-battle-over-marriage-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2012\/04\/republicans-retreat-in-battle-over-marriage-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans retreat in battle over marriage equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politico, has noticed &#8220;one of the swiftest shifts in ideology and strategy for Republicans, as they\u2019ve come nearly full circle on same-sex politics. What was once a front-and-center issue for rank-and-file Republicans &#8211; the subject of many hotly worded House and Senate floor speeches &#8211; is virtually a dead issue, as Republicans in Congress don\u2019t care to have gay marriage litigated in the Capitol. Even more than that, Republican leadership has evolved, too. It has quietly worked behind the scenes to kill amendments that reaffirm opposition to same-sex unions. It\u2019s not like the GOP has become a bastion of progressiveness on gay rights, but there has been an evolution in the political approach \u2014 and an acknowledgment of a cultural shift in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">POLITICO.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico, has noticed &#8220;one of the swiftest shifts in ideology and strategy for Republicans, as they\u2019ve come nearly full circle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,64],"tags":[1144],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Republicans retreat in battle over marriage equality - 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