It is certainly clear from this data that an anti-homosexual bent is certainly not the prevailing norm for conservatives. This can also be evidenced from the Alan Keyes election where he captured only 27% of the popular vote in a state where Bush captured 45%.
This data shows that virtually half of the republican VOTING base shares the same view toward homosexuality as you do - basically a live and let live philosophy.
The formatting of the table isn't that great, but I hope it is comprehendable.
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|
Overall |
Bush |
% To Total |
Kerry |
% To Total |
|
Legally Marry |
25% |
22% |
6% |
78% |
20% |
|
Civil Unions |
35% |
52% |
18% |
47% |
16% |
|
No Legal Recognition |
37% |
70% |
26% |
29% |
11% |
|
|
|
|
50% |
|
47% |
Thanks for the table, Jeff. I appreciate it.
Yeah, I thought that I wasn't quite the anomaly that I feel like when talking about this issue on the FR boards. It's just that being behind a computer brings out the extremes in people's thoughts that they may not choose to express in a more civil, face-to-face discussion of the same matters. Many of that 22 % of all Bush voters who believe in legal marriage for homosexuals choose to keep that to themselves for fear of being branded as some kind of leftist/radical by more the more fundamentalist Republicans who populate the majority of the President's fanbase.
With Bush, as any politician, I tend to take the full package into consideration before I make my vote. Pres. Bush and the Republican party share probably 75-80% of the same values and political beliefs as I do, wheras I adamantly oppose John Kerry on probably 90% of every position that he takes (whenever he has the guts to take a position at all, that is).
Not every Republican is a radical theocratic like Jerry Falwell and James Dobsen, and not every Democrat is...well...actually most elected Democrats are leftist/socialist opportunists with no faith in personal liberty or the Constitution. The latter is why I post on FR, and I spit on the lunatics at DU.