Gay Republicans criticise party platform, welcome Trump A convention delegate who is also a Republican gay rights campaigner says his party's platform is "very out of line" with mainstream America on gay rights, after the document condemned gay marriage and backed so-called 'gay conversion therapy'. However, Charles Moran of the Log Cabin Republicans pressure group said Donald Trump is not bound by that platform and has been pro-gay rights. Moran also welcomed the fact that a gay Republican, PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, has been invited to speak at the convention, the first such invitation since 2000. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES * REFILING TO ADD DETAIL TO SOUNDBITE 5**REFILING to clarify who SOUNDBITE 5 refers to