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"Rick is a consistent voice for inclusion and compassion in the Republican Party and in the Senate,” Dr. Frist said in an issued statement, "and to suggest otherwise is just politics.” Santorum, a Pennsylvanian who holds the number three spot in the Republican leader ship, has been buffeted by criticism of his comments about a Supreme Court challenge to a Texas law banning sodomy. "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adul tery,” he said, in an interview published by The Associated Press. Democrats condemned the remarks, and gay rights groups called for Santorum to resign his leadership post. Santorum said he does not need to apologize, that he was engaged in a “legitimate public policy discussion." The Republican Unity Coalition joined crit ics. But the coalition, which describes itself as a “gay-straight organization, dedicated to making homosexuality a non-issue,” did not call for Santorum to relinquish his leadership position. “These are false and harmful com parisons," the coalition said in a statement, adding, "Senator Santorum owes an apology to gay men and women who support, build and have loving families all across America.” GOP chief gets flak for meeting with HRC Family Research Council cries foul with claims of pandering to the "homosexual agenda" by An Bendersky Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network The head of the Republican National Committee is getting flak from party members for meeting with the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay rights group in the US. RNC Chairman Marc Racicot spoke at the HRC’s board of directors and governors meet ing in March, discussing main issues concerning the gay lobby. President Bush’s agenda and a need for bet ter inclusion within the party, according to HRC spokesman David Smith. Racicot also said he didn’t like gay-baiting ads and said they would not be a tactic of the RNC as far as he was concerned. Smith said. The Log Cabin Republicans praised Racicot for being fair-minded and inclusive. In 2001 when Racicot was appointed to his current position. Log Cabin called him the “right man at the right time for the GOP.” However, conservative Republican groups, like the Family Research Council, are now attacking Racicot, saying he’s pandering to the "homosexual agenda,” a plan that includes legalization of same-sex marriage, domestic partner benefits for unmarried homosexuals and lesbians, thought crime leg islation, and adoption rights for gays, accord ing to the FRC web site. The FRC also called the meeting between Racicot and the HRC “troubling if it marks any Republican retreat on the defense of marriage and the family.” And Focus on the Family reports that Bob Knight, director of the Family and Culture Republican National Committee Chairman Mark Racicot Institute, said, “[Homosexual activists] arc building a new headquarters in Washington to promote gay marriage, gay adoption of chil dren, gay programs in the schools — the kinds of laws that will result in punishing Christians for^peaking out against homosex uality. This is the kind of group that Mr. Racicot was courting.” The “headquarters” is the new HRC build ing being constructed in Washington, but as far as it being a place creating laws to punish Christians, Log Cabin Republican spokesman Mark Mead said it only shows the gay com munity, with the lead of the HRC, is becoming part of the mainstream just like any other lobby group. “Mr. Knight knows this is not the truth. He’s trying to marginalize our community by making comments like this,” Mead said. “He has to use this inflammatory rhet oric and he knows better. When you’re losing the argument (with mainstream America) you have to turn the heat up.” Mead praised Racicot’s meeting with the HRC, say ing it shows a new open-mindedness in the Republican Party leadership to reach out to all groups of Americans, especially since this was the first time the leader of the RNC met with a gay group. “We’re part of the party and we’re not going away," Mead said. “Neither party afford to lose people from their ranks. You win by addition, not subtraction. Mainstream America is for tolerance and inclusion.” HRC’s Smith said Racicot’s comments weren’t an extreme departure from what has been said in the past, but that merely meeting with the gay group was a big move. “I don’t see this as the RNC reaching out to the gay community more aggressively,” Smith said. “The first step you take in trying to come together in policy differences is a dialogue. This was a step in that direction.”
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