The anti-gay rant quoted in this article did not come from Thiel, and I can't see anything in the linked articles to show he backed it. Not that I'm claiming Th

The anti-gay rant quoted in this article did not come from Thiel, and I can't see anything in the linked articles to show he backed it. Not that I'm claiming Thiel is a lifelong supporter of gay rights or has never said anything terrible, simply that this article doesn't seem to support what you're claiming. 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-Condemns-Opinion-Piece-3022703.php 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?