romney courting the homophobes

Jim Talent: Romney will stop ‘the militant gays.’

Today on MSNBC’s Hardball, former senator Jim Talent, now an adviser to Mitt Romney, discussed Romney’s record on gays. Talent maintained that Romney has never been inconsistent on gay rights and has “always” wanted to stop the influence of “the militant gays”:

He’s always had the same position as to regards to the gay agenda. Look, he wants to know people to know he values gay people as people, okay? But he doesn’t want the militant gays to be able to change the cultural institutions of the country.

(Think Progress)
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I wonder what anyone thinks the "militant gays" are trying to do. I wonder if they mean "every gay" who simply wants equal rights?