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...Hayes found Adams—who had left the presidency in 1829 but was a congressman from Massachusetts for much of the 1830s and 1840s—“a venerable but deluded old man” with a “very unreasonable and unfair” anti-slavery platform...
...Both had been funded indirectly by grants from the NEA—the former through the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and the latter through the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania—and both were shocking and blasphemous (phalluses and crosses dunked in urine). Anti-NEA vitriol flooded congressional mailboxes. The director of the Southeastern Center, Ted Potter, told The New York Times, “I’ve never seen anything like this before in my 25 years as an arts administrator. Ultraconservatives are on the rise. It’s a wind...
...Among gay activists, the Cabinet is revered as a kind of secret gay Super Friends, a homosexual justice league that can quietly swoop in wherever anti-gay candidates are threatening and finance victories for the good guys. Rumors abound in gay political circles about the group's recondite influence; some of the rumors are even true. For instance, the Cabinet met in California last year with two sitting governors, Brian Schweitzer of Montana and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, both Democrats; political advisers who work for the Cabinet met with a third Democratic governor, Wisconsin's Jim Doyle. The Cabinet...
...group of wealthy, gay political donors telephoned a Virginia legislator named Adam Ebbin. Then, as now, Ebbin was the only openly gay member of the state's general assembly. The researcher wanted Ebbin's advice on how the men he represented could spend their considerable funds to help defeat anti-gay Virginia politicians...
...Election Day that year, the Virginia legislature stayed solidly in Republican hands; the Democratic Party netted just one seat. But that larger outcome masked an intriguing development: anti-gay conservatives had suffered considerably. For instance, in northern Virginia, a Democrat named Charles Caputo (who received $6,500 from Ebbin's PAC) had beaten a Christian youth minister, Chris Craddock, by an unexpectedly large margin, with a vote of 56% to 41%. Three other candidates critical of gays were also defeated, including delegate Richard Black, who had long opposed gay equality in Richmond. Black had had no single donation as large...