[RavenMoon]

sarasota wrote: Exactly, but don't you hear the spin: Mrs. Cheney sides with Democrats on gay marriage issue.

Is this really a Democrat vs. Republican issue? I know more than a few registered Republican gay people, and, here in Massachusetts, an amendment defining marriage as a man and a woman was approved by a legislature made up mostly of Democrats. Isn't Rudy Giuliani, a speaker at the upcoming RNC Convention, rather supportive of gays himself? If I remember correctly, he even lived with a couple of them during his separation from his wife. I'm not sure this is a cut and dry issue for the Republican party.

[oceanview]

no, Rudy is against gay marriage, he is for civil unions.

[biblewonk]

I'd say this is definitely an R vs D issue. I visited gay pride in CR Ia a few years ago and a local democrat politician was warning the gays about those politicians that wanted to dictate to them who they slept with. This is not a true statement but he was certainly putting a line in the sand. At the end of his speach he said "What ever it is that you people do when your out tonight..just enjoy yourself".

So there he was totally condoning whatever they were going to do and yes there was a sexual connotation. I find the majority of Democrats I meet are not Christians and the majority of Christians I know who are serious about the bible are Republicans. We would never publically or officially condone gays.

[little jeremiah]

It's a cut and dried issue for conservatives. Not all Republicans are conservatives, unfortunately.