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Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she now supports gay marriage, becoming the third Senate Republican to do so.

Prominent religious conservatives are pushing the GOP to embrace limits on abortion and gay rights as evangelical activists gather in Washington.

GOP Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois said Tuesday he supports same-sex marriage, becoming the second sitting Republican senator to make such an announcement in recent weeks.

That’s one among a Republican National Committee survey’s many odd questions that’s yet another sign that the Grand Old Party is trying not to be so, well, old.

In the wake of what looks like a Supreme Court slam dunk, Fox News audience favorite Bill O’Reilly in his own inimitable way, joined the flood of senior politicians rushing to join the marriage-equality bandwagon.

While GOP Sen. Rob Portman’s son explains his father’s own conversion & Sen. Claire McCaskill & Va. Sen. Mark Warner join the pro-equality bandwagon, a new poll shows over half of Ohioans support repealing the state’s ban on same-sex marriage,

GOP strategist Karl Rove says he can imagine a Republican candidate in the next presidential campaign supporting gay marriage.

The nation’s views on gay marriage are more favorable in large part because of a shift in attitudes among those who know someone who is gay or became more accepting as they got older of gays and lesbians, according to a national survey.

This was to be a roadmap for a new, more inclusive GOP: attract minority voters, support immigration reform and embrace "welcoming and inclusive" attitudes on gay rights. But minutes after unveiling the proposal, the party chairman distanced him from it.

LGBT activists and groups overall are cheering Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s turnaround and support for marriage equality.