Republican matters: while many have hailed the Democrats' courtship of LGBT voters as one giant leap for gaykind, perhaps the movement's future progress lies on the GOP side of the fence.

REMEMBER 2004, when President Bush threw his weight behind the Federal Marriage Amendment to constitutionally deny same-sex couples the right to marry? Or 2006, when the only real question for GOP candidates was whether they backed the FMA or, like John McCain, preferred to let individual states decide to constitutionally prohibit same-sex marriage?

Well, say hello to 2008 and a field of Republican candidates as variable on gay issues as their predecessors were rote...

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