Good summary. Sure wish the GOP could figure out this simple equation.
It's a phoney equation based on false premises.
Maybe gays don't make up 10% of the population as some claim but 0.1% is a ridiculously low figure.
And when you add to this bisexuals, those who have experimented at some time with homosexuality, those who have friends of family members who happen to be gay, and those who just plain are liberal in their sexual ideals and don't want anti-gay zealots coming after them next.....they idea that the GOP would be offending 80% of their constituents is just plain ridiculous.
Nobody here claimed gays were 0.1% of the population. The paragraph in context is below:
Racicot can't be trying to get lesbian votes, which have got to be 99% Democrat, and forever will be. That leaves gay men, which constitute roughly 2% of the male population. If the GOP were to embrace the gay male population what would it get? Maybe changing 10%, going from 90% to 80% Democrat. To try to get the votes of 0.1% of the population, the GOP must first stick the gay agenda thumb in the eye of 80% of their constituents.
The claim is that male homosexuals are 2% of males, and thus 1% of the population; of these, the best that could be expected would be to change 10%, which works out to 0.1%.
...they [sic]idea that the GOP would be offending 80% of their constituents is just plain ridiculous.
Gay marriage, gays in the military, forcing the Scouts to accept homosexual Scoutmasters is opposed by nearly 80% of the general voting population. It is far from ridiculous to figure that 80% of Republicans oppose these measures.