I think your numbers are misstated. I think that openly gay represent maybe 2% of the population, but there are a lot of people that have those tendancies and do not "come out" because of social pressures or they are not certain.
My brother is gay and is a Democrat (liberal), but we find ourselves agreeing on key issues like fiscal responsibility and conservativism, environmental issues, and limited government. If not for the anti-gay sentiment of a lot of people in the Republican Party, he would probably be a Republican. He, like me, tends to slant more liberterian in his views.
No, I am basing my figures on repeated anonymous surveys that were done in the 90's. They liberally defined "homosexual" as anybody who had had even one homnosexual experience. Incidently, people who have had homosexual desires that they didn't act on are not effectively homosexual. If you don't do it, you can't be it.
I love Free Republic, except I can't stand the holier than thou religious homophobe bigots that post here. They spout the Bible to spew their hate, but I wonder how many of them would write off a gay relative like your gay brother in the name of the Bible ?
I don't recall reading about Jesus condemning homosexuality. Homophobes have to go back to the eye for an eye stoning days of the Old Testament to support their hatred. If we lived by the teachings of the Old Testament, we'd be no better than the Islamo-fascists we face today.
Politics should be about ideology not sexology. I too would vote for a gay conservative over a heterosexual liberal any day of the week. I know you love your brother, and I only hope there are more freepers like you.