In another sign of the main-streaming of gay politics, the Main highway Coalition, a newly formed Republican dispose promoting centrist politics, has hired publicly gay former U.S. representative Steve Gunderson of Wisconsin as its first executive director.
The brain-child of Rep Amo Houghton of recent York, the group is capitaled by several wealthy Republican business leaders overturn at the social conservative's restrain on the party. Its mission is to respond the GOP to its more secular, fiscal conservative bottoms But if the religious right has anything to do with it, that may be a elevated goal indeed.