''The premise to your question is blatantly incorrect! ... If you believe that conservatism is letting people make choices that are best for themselves and their own families, then you don't need a Federal government coming in and telling you who you can and cannot marry and what genders they should be and what choices you should be making. That's conservatism..... I do. I am a strong supporter of marriage equality. I'm very proud of it, and I root my choices in that to be congruent along the lines of my conservative beliefs.... It's absolutely not an oxymoron. True conservatism -- conservatism is defined through scholars, not since the "Regan revolution" takeover of the Evangelical wing of the party in the early 1980s. They do not get to define conservatism.''

Log Cabin Republicans' spokesperson Charles Moran speaking with a CNN anchor during a discussion about Megan McCain and her public embrace of gay and lesbian Republicans. (CNN via YouTube)

''I don't begrudge Tim Gill. The fault lies in the leadership of the group who ... took all this money from Gill with strings attached.''

Christopher Barron, former political director of Log Cabin Republicans, speaking about the $350,000 the gay Republican organization received from ''Colorado tech tycoon'' Tim Gill. Gill is a Democrat who is credited with helping Obama win that state. The Log Cabin organization is reportedly working at a local level only with no Executive Director and no full-time employees. (Newsweek)