“...however, on the other hand, there are plenty of straight conservatives that harbor a liberal idea or two on one issue or another. Why are the gay conservatives any different than these other “conservatives”?
What near destroyed the GOP is your embrace without the important caveat that says the GOP will allow groups -ASYLUM - ONLY. Let any group support the conservative platform all they want; however, they cannot come into this party and attempt to promulgate immorality, which is destructive to the very foundations of the party.
It’s just as absurd as allowing Muslims to become part of our government. Islam results in tyranny and savagery in every part of the Islamic world. That is because it is a savage religion founded by a murderous pedophile who built the entire religion on force, plunder, murder and rape. It is very unpopular to admit this because the west is hell bent on self-destruction but the bottom-line is that allowing Islam representation in our government is EXACTLY the same as allowing a religion whose central tenet is to destroy Democracy and of course to destroy America.
Allowing homosexuality is not the same thing as inviting Islam in that homosexuals don’t necessarily -intend- to destroy our party and our country. They just intend to permeate our body, corrupt our collective morals and legitimize their sin. Our destruction just happens to be an inevitable consequence.
The overall point is that the words “big tent” cannot mean that we give commendation to all beliefs. Asylum is crucial. The lesson we better have learned over the past decade is that if we do not hold firm to our conservative platform and allow people who have beliefs that are destructive to our party into leadership roles within the party and elective office simply because “only a moderate can win in New Hampshire or New York” - we are inviting our destruction. That mistake that we have to support people like Arlen Specter is exactly why our nation is in the debacle it is in today.
Is a virus a good thing simply because it can survive in a particular environment?
The wise understand. Well said.