Unlike with some voting blocks, inroads can be made particularly on a strong fiscal message.
Palin suggested as much on her bus tour when interviewed by Greta. She was asked about Santorum's social conservatism and Palin said a fiscally conservative message would draw voters in 2012.
You seem to have bought into the media stereotype of militant socialist, atheists gays as being all there is. They are common but disproportionately noisy. Intolerant hypocrites, they openly hate those homosexuals who don't share their political agenda or disdain for religion.
Great. You can have ‘em.
As a cult leader, Alan Keyes probably has very strict rules on who is allowed to vote for him.
Gays are 4% of the population.
Jews are 2% of the population.
Muslims are 1-2% of the population.
Catholics are around 25% of the population.
Based on these numbers, I would not try to appeal to gays at the risk of offending Catholics.
The problem with even pretending to be nice to gay Republicans is that they’re going to be constantly whining about gay stuff, constantly pushing for us to blend our position with the Democrats. It’s nice enough to say “oh, but they just happen to be gay, they support all of our agenda otherwise.” And we can’t appeal to lower middle class, blue collar Catholic Democrats because our strongest draw with them was our clear advantage on traditional moral issues.
Think of this. What would happen if we said “Homosex is a mental illness and science is unclear on what causes it, but evidence points to hormones. We need to study those homones
and work on a cure through medical means. As a matter of public policy, it is simply not a good idea to encourage extinctionary behaviors. It’s a mental illness, much like depression, which can be remedied with a simple pill which Merck (see Guardisil / Perry) Perry can say “I’m giving Merck $1 Billion dollars upfront for a medical cure to gay”.
Start with “stop drinking soy milk”. Ban anything that is thought to cause gay, like certain plastics or plastic components.
Marcus is going to prove a fatal problem, but he is opening up again the idea of curing gay. Prayer doesn’t seem to be working all that well with him. And truthfully, there are some people out there who think it’s a missed opportunity to start seriously talking about curing gay, when the guy talking about curing gay thinks that prayer works better than science when clearly it’s not working as well with him as one would think science might be able to do if we put forth a big War on Gay.