WELL, YES: Tea Party’s Brew Includes Gays And Lesbians.

Liberals would like to believe they own the gay vote, as if gays were a monolithic voting bloc whose sole, overriding concern is gay marriage and the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” Gays are heads of families, professionals and business owners, and issues such as national security, sane economic policy and halting the rapid growth and overreach of government rank far ahead of gay issues for many, though the importance of gay issues can’t be discounted.

The Tea Party movement has three core principles: Fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government and free markets. While individual Tea Partyers may embrace a wide range of views on social issues, the movement has risen to power because it has formed around this very narrow range of principles most critical to the survival of our nation at this precise moment in history.

Indeed.

UPDATE: Reader Jane Woodworth writes:

Since the election I’ve read numerous articles about how the tea party is moving into social issues. I am the founder of the Sturbridge Tea Party and am in touch with numerous tea party organizations and I have seen zero movement into social issues. In fact, if that were happening, I would resign. We are all about fiscal issues which is precisely why the tea party is a perfect venue for gays (and anyone who works for a living). I think the liberal press narrative is a campaign geared to keeping gays away from the tea party. Oh how they underestimate the gays.

Indeed.

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