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Patrick Murphy, a Log Cabin member who is running for a seat on the New York City Council from an East Side district this year, said yesterday that Senator Maltese's "Paleozoic thinking" did not reflect the norm in the party. "While Serph Maltese is looking to exclude gays and lesbians who deserve a seat at the table, the rest of Republicans are looking out for gay and lesbian families," Mr. Murphy said.

New York State GOP Chairman Stephen J. Minarik agreed, arguing that adding a gay group to the Republican executive committee shows that the Republican Party values a greater diversity of opinion and is willing to entertain a wider range of thought than the Democratic Party. "You can't be pro-life and be invited into the top ranks of state Democratic leadership," he noted. "Our party truly is the big tent party of New York."

"America's changing racial realities and political necessity have compelled the Republicans to put their version of the rainbow on display," says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, author of The Crisis in Black and Black, and it's not just for show -- George W. Bush aggressively courted Latino voters, bagging nearly 40 percent of the Latino vote in the last election, and in 2002, 20 black and 40 Latino candidates ran as Republicans in national and state elections, winning the lieutenant governorships in Maryland and Ohio, while also forming Latino Republican caucuses in the Texas and California Legislatures. Black Republicans in Southern California now routinely challenge black Democrats in nearly all state and congressional races, to boot.

And while leftists rant that the modern GOP is Nazi-influenced and Hitler-esque, a 2003 study by The Institute for Jewish & Community Research revealed that Democrats "are more anti-Semitic than Republicans."

So isn't it time we put that whole canard of the supposedly far more diverse and tolerant liberal left to rest?