me: "If sodomites want to vote Republican based on shared values, then the religious right has no objection."
you:
I don't know what the shared values of the gays are, but to say that the religious right has no objection is totally wrong from what I've been reading in the threads.
What I'm saying is that religious right voters have no problem with sodomite Republican voters if they want to vote GOP based on a concern for their civil rights, for less intrusive and smaller government, for lower taxes. What the religious right opposes is the use of an organization like Log Cabin to infiltrate a radical gay agenda into the party.
Are there legitimate sodomite conservatives? Yes, a relatively small number. But the Log Cabin and Human Rights Watch are Leftist organizations, just as much as are the NEA (both of them) and Planned Parenthood. There is no legitimate political reason for the GOP to accomodate them in any substantial way, given their well-known views. In doing so, the GOP risks that they will drive away 10%-40% of their religious right base and gain very little in return because when it comes to sodomy and abortion rights, the Dims will always out-pander the GOP. There are very few sodomite votes to gain and a great number of relgious right votes to lose.