If you go by the numbers, the GOP is gay conversion therapy! (Just not with the intended outcome.)
But Peter Thiel certainly was:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/peter-thiel-keith-rabois...
Anyway, Thiel isn't a Republican himself. As per Wiki, he's a Libertarian, from an Evangelical background.
I liked this link though, from 1995:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Stanford-President-Condem...
> Calling the multiculturalism movement "mindless," the piece argues that as "recycled anti-Western banalities substitute for a genuine study of Western and non- Western cultures, multiculturalism is effectively wasting some of the best years of America's brightest students." In some feminist studies courses, students were asked to write, but not necessarily send, letters to their parents about "coming out as a lesbian," said Sacks and Thiel.
> The two also criticized a class on the history of rights in the United States, saying it "was so busy extolling 1960s protests movements that the class never got around to studying the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution."
Have campus conservatives ever found anything new to complain about?
Regarding the Stanford incident, Gawker has the most fleshed out backstory: http://gawker.com/the-free-speech-peter-thiel-will-defend-fa...
Why do they need to find something new? If it's a stand on principles, then all they need is to point out disregard of principles. "Newness" misses the point and would appear to be a form of shallowness that feels entitled to novelty.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/08/rnc-chair-mehlman-ga...