[ClearCase_guy]

Homosexuals make up less than 2% of the population -- although they seem to have more than 2% of the money.

A political party's base tends to make up 30% of the population.

Money sure helps, but in the end, it's votes that matter. The GOP is throwing aside 30% of the people in order to attract 2% of the people.
That's dumb on its face.
And it's even worse, because the 2% isn't going to come over. They will stay Democrats, although they may fork over some cash.

The GOP is jettisoning its base, for no real return at all -- except some money with which to pay the party "experts" like Rove.

[dfwgator]

The GOP hopes that the gay issue will be neutralized...in other words both parties would be considered pro-gay, thus making it a non-issue.

But they would be wrong...the gays will keep pushing their agenda more and more, and the Democrats will go along, and the GOP drag on it, but inevitably go along. So they wouldn’t make any gains from those who vote for Democrats, because they will ALWAYS be the more pro-gay party.

Meanwhile, they will lose millions of social conservatives. They would become irrelevant.

[Sopater]

The GOP is throwing aside 30% of the people in order to attract 2% of the people.

It's not the 2% alone that they are trying to attract, it's the X% that agree with those 2% as well. However, I completely agree that it is likely that they will not be successful in drawing a sizeable number of those individuals away from the Democrat party.