Posted on 07/23/2012 9:55:49 AM PDT by massmike
It’s an axiom of modern American politics that most Republicans are reflexively — even stridently — anti-gay. The hiring, then forced resignation in May, of openly gay foreign policy expert Richard Grenell by the Romney campaign enhanced the party’s, and Mitt Romney’s, anti-gay image.
To be sure, anti-gay sentiments still run deep in the GOP. Yet if one digs deeper than the conventional wisdom, one finds large, overlooked pockets of gay tolerance among rank-and-file Republicans. Polling data reveal four common myths about right-of-center attitudes toward gay rights.
Myth No. 1: Most Republicans oppose gay rights in any form.
Myth No. 2: Evangelicals are a gay rights wasteland.
Myth No. 3: There is little support overall among Republicans for recognition of same-sex relationships.
Myth No. 4: The Tea Party and the religious right hold the same views on gay and lesbian issues.
Gives you an idea of how bad Boston REALLY is......
Gays?
Big tent?
I don’t even want to think about it.
I don’t care what someone does in the privacy of their own bedroom. That’s their business and God’s, not mine. But as soon as they bring their perversion out into the public square and shove it in my face and try to teach my children that it’s good and right and normal? Brother, you just MADE it my business. And I will never support it.
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Looks like the moderates are feeling empowered.
As for Boehner, he's practically a boob already.
They've made sure the social conservatives don't have a place at the table. God help us!
On Myth # 1, Republicans oppose special rights for gays. Republicans support gays having the same rights as anyone else.
On Myth # 2, Evangelicals support a view of gay marriage and other “gay rights” that, until about 10 or 20 years ago, was broadly accepted by EVERYONE including Democrats. Having said that, I don’t know of many people — even religious conservatives — who support locking gays up.
Myth # 3 is true. In fact, looking at most polls, there is little support among the general public for gay marriage. This isn’t just a “conservative” or “Christian” issue.
On Myth # 4, the media has tried and tried to turn the Tea Party into some social issues movement when it never was. The media needs to turn the Tea Party into some intolerant stereotype to turn the public against them. Its the clearest example of advocacy journalism in modern history.
Bottom Line: if gays want to support limited government and not ask for special rights, they are welcome in the Republican Party.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
The two items above should be reason enough to say that the GOP tent should never be that big. Let the Democraps be the party of perversion.
If homosexuals weren't so homophobic about admitting their homosexuality, they wouldn't have to usurp and corrupt other words to disguise their homosexuality and make it more acceptable to a continually indoctrinated public.
Room for homosexuals in the GOP big tent?....sure, there is at least one open space under that tent, because I left.
I agree with you.
At Christmastime, when we sing "Don we now our gay apparel," doe that mean we're going in drag?
When Stephen Foster wrote, "'Tis summer, the darkies are gay," did he mean that in wintertime they're straight?
If "We'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home," how are we supposed to feel the rest of the time?
I object to the sodomites hijacking a perfectly good English word for which there's no adequate substitute.
"Gay rights" is about bequeathing rights to homosexuals. WRONG -- FALSE -- A LIE. The truth: "Gay rights" is about denying rights. It's about denying the right of adoption agencies to refuse to relinquish the children in their charge to homosexual couples who want to play "married with children." Gay "rights" actually means forcing those adoption agencies to accommodate homosexuals' demands; "gay rights" is about denying rights to adoption agencies.
Gay "rights" is about denying the right of a matchmaking/dating service like e-hamony to deal exclusively with heterosexuals, and about forcing this private business to include gay and lesbian matchmaking. "Gay rights" is about denying rights to online dating services.
Gay "rights" is about denying the right of a business owner to fire an employee for making customers uncomfortable because of being flamboyantly "gay" or overtly "dike" in attitude, and forcing businesses to accommodate such employees. "Gay rights" is about denying rights to private businesses.
"Gay rights" has ZERO to do with bestowing rights; "Gay rights" is ALL and ONLY about taking rights away from others.
That "gay rights" is about "rights" is the biggest myth of all, and should be at the top of the list.
Looks like I’ll be sleeping in my car....
Sure gays are welcome just like drug addicts and alcoholics.
If you repent from your sin/crime and chose to lead a moral life you are most welcome. If you want to live as a pervert. You are not welcome.
If gays want to be Republicans or conservatives no one is stopping them, or trying to. It’s the gay agenda we don’t care for, and there is nothing to be gained by trying to accommodate it. As a demographic, gays are too small a percentage of the Republican Party to justify promoting a culturally unsound and destructive gay agenda. Gay marriage, and gay indoctrination in the classrooms are not winning issues. If they were, Obama would have an 80 percent approval rating. Gay is not the new norm, sexual and cultural perversion haven’t taken us there yet, and they never should.
LLS
There are no moderates... there are Conservative republicans and progressive republicans... the progressives actually control the party and its agenda.
LLS
“Sodomites” works for me.
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