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Knight believes the GOP has been misguided about its pro-family Christian voter base.

"I think there is a view in the White House that somehow Christian conservatives will stay in the GOP camp no matter what they do on the homosexual issue"

That's called the sin of presumption.

2 posted on 04/21/2003 4:34:19 PM PDT by Polycarp ("He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.")

Politically, this is a bad move. Somebody is not using their head somewhere. All it's going to do is fracture the conservative base where the "Christian" family people don't want to deal with people who don't fit their definition of family. They'll walk away from the party before bending.

Whether you or I believe that homosexual acts are amoral or that homosexual unions are not valid does not change that these people have money and they vote. They have a tendency to be flakes, but that's a product of the culture, IMO. It won't hurt at least to be nice to them all the way around. But courting crosses the line for some and that's going to hurt.