"Now, with one of the worst-of-the-worst anti-gay groups having disbanded, and with such heartfelt attrition, there is significantly less cover for political leaders on the bubble about gay marriage," writes The New Republic's Molly Redden.The evangelical Christian group has promoted "reparative therapy" for gays since the 1970s."The foremost advocate of gay conversion therapy" announced it will shutter that program last night.
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I am very sorry that I have been yours," begins the second-to-last paragraph of Alan Chambers's apology to the LGBT community on behalf of Exodus International. New Jersey Senate candidate Rush Holt, who says he's "no Cory Booker" I'm a teacher, a scientist, and my most famous moment was beating the computer in Jeopardy. What other politician would resign halfway through her first term, and proudly proclaim that doing the job she was elected to do would be "the quitter's way out"? Who else is so desperate to engage in public beefs with somebody, anybody? (Right now it's Bill Maher, but in the past she has created protracted feuds with the likes of David Letterman and the estimable Levi Johnston.) Who else brings that magical combination of self-regard and resentment at the elitists keeping her down? We'll admit we missed her, and there is truly no one in American life quite like Sarah Palin. One can only imagine the concessions Ailes extracted from her (who knows, maybe she's paying him to let her get in front of a camera). Fox has rehired Palin, lest the world be deprived of her insights for any longer. After one too many halting, inarticulate appearances on Hannity and The O'Reilly Factor, Roger Ailes quite reasonably cut her loose at the beginning of this year. She's always had some talents, but speaking extemporaneously on current affairs is most assuredly not among them. And the thing of it was, she was terrible at it. Palin had the best deal by far: a $1 million a year salary, a studio buily in her house so she wouldn't have to go anywhere, and a schedule of appearances so relaxed that she ended up getting paid more than $15 for every word she uttered on the air.
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Among the personalities emploted by the network during Obama's first term were Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, and of course, Sarah Palin. A few years ago, people joked that Fox new was running a jobs program for has-been, hoping-to-be-again Republican politicians dreaming of defeating Barack Obama in 2012.