The Republican Party has a messaging problem with certain demographics.  From minorities to women, the LGBT to the poor, the Republican Party seems content to focus only on rich, white males.  When the Republican Party had a bitter defeat in 2012, theRNC put together a report called the GOP Autopsy.  Just some suggestions inside the report include:
Women are not a “coalition.” They represent more than half the voting population in the country, and our inability to win their votes is losing us elections.
While pointing out that the RNC is not a policy committee, they gave a suggestion on how to handle the Latino community:
As stated above, we are not a policy committee, but among the steps Republicans take in the Hispanic community and beyond we must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our Party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only. We also believe that comprehensive immigration reform is consistent with Republican economic policies that promote job growth and opportunity for all.
In a suggested shift in policy, the autopsy also suggested to stop attacking the LGBT community.
Already, there is a generational difference within the conservative movement about issues involving the treatment and the rights of gays — and for many younger voters, these issues are a gateway into whether the Party is a place they want to be.
While it appears that no Republican actually sat down to read the autopsy, one RNC co-chair hopeful in Michigan seems to have decided to do the exact opposite of what the report stated.  In a hate filled post on the Schoolcraft County, Michigan Republican Party site, Mary Helen Sears stated that she wants gays “purged” from the GOP and that homosexuality is a “perversion” created by Satan.
How then can we as Christians stay in a party that adopts Homosexuality into the fabric of the tent. I say we cannot. Homosexuals make up less than one percent of the total population. They must prey on our children to increase their numbers. Why then, would we, as a party, entertain this perversion? We as a party should be purging this perversion and send them to a party with a much bigger tent.
Sears also expressed her concern over evolution and, in a massive stretch, somehow connected it to Hitler and the rise of the Third Reich.
Looking at our history we see that the party was built around a set of ideas agreed upon by the party members. The tent owners had made the first tent. The fabric of that tent was built on the idea that, “All men are CREATED equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain inalienable rights…”
Where would they ever get a notion that all men are CREATED equal? You will certainly not find that in Darwin’s view of the world, which is being taught to our gullible children. His view gave rise to Hitler’s Third Reich, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia. No, we find this idea in the pages of the Holy Bible. God’s Word teaches that we are a created being, fallen from Grace but not forgotten by a long suffering God. A quick walk around DC will prove without a doubt that our Country was steeped in Christianity and so was the founding principles of the Republican Party.
Sears, who already is the 1st District Vice Chair, representing the 38th Senate District of Michigan.  With a recent resignation, Sears is now aiming for higher office.
Michigan’s representatives on the Republican National Committee have lately stirred other controversy, mostly due to Dave Agema, a former state lawmaker who has regularly made anti-gay comments and has been condemned by fellow Republicans, including Gov. Rick Snyder.
Last month, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Michigan Republican Party Chairman Bobby Schostak issued a joint statement asking Agema to step down from the RNC “for the good of the party.” Instead, Agema’s Michigan co-chair on the RNC, U.S. Senate candidate Terri Lynn Land (who had condemned Agema’s anti-gay comments), resigned her seat, saying she wanted to focus on her campaign. Under party rules, the state GOP must pick a woman to take Land’s place, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Enter Sears, who is running for Land’s vacated RNC seat. She’s, “if anything, to the right of RNC Committeeman Dave Agema on the political spectrum,” wrote Macomb Daily columnist Chad Selweski.
With Agema holding onto his seat, and the prospect of Sears joining him, Republicans are starting to become concerned with the direction of their party.
Apparently some Republican insiders are so shaken by the prospect of having Agema and Sears as Michigan’s two representatives on the RNC that they’re growing concerned about two mainstream Republicans in the three-person field splitting their votes, thereby allowing Sears to claim victory. When the GOP State Committee meets to select Land’s replacement, Sears’ competitors are expected to consist of Ronna Romney McDaniel, daughter of Ronna Romney, and Sandra Kahn who, I’m told, is the aunt of state Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville and the ex-wife of Sen. Roger Kahn of Saginaw Township.
The Republican Party, over the past 5 or so years, have placated to the extremist faction of the Right.  Instead of trying to find a middle-ground with President Obama and fellow Democrats, they have made it their mission to oppose everything.  In the process of the rise of the Tea Party, was the rise of hatred.  This has been most evident against the LGBT community.  While American’s public opinion of equal rights in the workplace, for federal benefits and marriage have continued to rise, extremists have dominated when it comes to obstructing the people’s will.
It is going to be up to the establishment Republican’s, like Speaker Boehner and RNC chairman Reince Priebus, to step up and start asking the extremists in their party to resign.  If a Democrat were to speak of the Christians, or any minority group, in the way the Republican Party allows, there would be riots in the streets.  This shows a complete lack of leadership and direction for the party, and a total lack of respect for the American public.  Until that time, it seems that the Republican Party cannot be considered a viable party.
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Michigan Republican Agema passed around an anti-gay letter on Facebook.  While Republicans and Democrats have called for his resignation, he has refused and kept his seat.