"Are GOP leaders secretly hoping that the Supreme Court, after it hears arguments on marriage equality next week, rules in favor of equality? That's certainly what a few were saying at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, though not for attribution. [snip]
"The remark this week from Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus that it is kind of ok now for Republicans to support marriage equality -- or at least that they wouldn't be thrown under the bus -- combined with Scott Walker's mixed messages on the issue, Rick Santorum's continued belligerence, Marco Rubio's defensiveness (opposing gay marriage "does not make me a bigot") and Senator Inhofe's sheer speechlessness underscore that the GOP is in turmoil on the issue.
"The GOP's only hope, it seems, is for the Supreme Court to take the issue off the table entirely. It's ironic (and grotesque) that the party that has been the most vociferously anti-gay, the party that brutally attacked LGBT people for decades and exploited homophobia for political gain, may be praying that the justices next week begin the process of giving gays full equality."
-- Michelangelo Signorile, writing for the Huffington Post.
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