Posted on 09/03/2012 6:33:11 AM PDT by NYer
Gays constitute a tiny minority of the U.S. population, less than 2% to be precise.
Excluded From Inclusion – NYT
WHAT the Republicans painstakingly constructed here was meant to look like the biggest of tents. And still they couldn’t spare so much as a sleeping bag’s worth of space for the likes of me.
Women were welcomed. During the prime evening television hours, the convention stage was festooned with them, and when they weren’t at the microphone, they were front and center in men’s remarks. Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney both gushed about their moms in tributes as tactical as they were teary.
Latinos were plentiful and flexed their Spanish — “En América, todo es posible,” said Susana Martinez, the New Mexico governor — despite an “English First” plank in the party’s regressive platform.
And while one preconvention poll suggested that roughly zero percent of African-Americans support Romney, Republicans found several prominent black leaders to testify for him. Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state, delivered what will surely be remembered as the convention’s most stirring and substantive remarks, purged of catcalls and devoid of slickly rendered fibs.
But you certainly didn’t see anyone openly gay on the stage in Tampa. More to the point, you didn’t hear mention of gays and lesbians. Scratch that: Mike Huckabee, who has completed a ratings-minded transformation from genial pol to dyspeptic pundit, made a derisive reference to President Obama’s support for same-sex marriage. We were thus allowed a fleeting moment inside the tent, only to be flogged and sent back out into the cold.
Frank Rich, former theater and film critic, now political pundit obsessed with injecting race and class envy into everything.
What's wrong, the throngs of brainwashed kids coming out of journalism school no longer know how to write? Why does the Times keep promoting washed up critics?
He is a white male, of Italian extraction. Rick Santorum "looks like" him. So what's the problem? Oh yeah, he likes to bend over for men. What does that have to do with Obama's $16 trillion in debt, rule by fiat, or appeasement of Iran?
Don't read it after a meal--it is very detailed.
YES. The fields of entertainment, fashion, arts and culture are about 75% homosexual. So even though homosexuals may be 2% of the general population, they are a majority in the fields I mentioned.
What is there about a personal preference for performing acts of sexual intercourse with other persons of one’s own sex that should merit special recognition or considerations, or benefits or privileges?
What is there about this preference, indulged by a very small minority of the populace, that the rest of us should care about? What makes it a fitting object of pride?
Seriously!! To homosexuals I say: Just do your private business in private and shut up!!
Well, there is that matter of mega-multiple, anonymous, virus-spreading couplings in those wondrous bath houses. So much for privacy.
Aren’t gays big in the entertainment field in the MSM?
There are a few in politics. They will give money to Obama and Biden in exchange for support of the gay agenda.
I'll go ahead and hold my breath waiting for the MSM to wonder aloud why the DNC isn't reaching out to coal and oil industry contractors and executives.
Official platform for the demoncrats includes sodomite marriage and baby murdering on demand.........paid for by US taxpayers.
WeasleZippers are reading comprehension challenged. They say, "less than 2% to be precise," yet linked to an article stating, "estimated 8.2 percent of the population had engaged in some form same-sex sexual activity."
Huh.
As an aside, how is "less than 2%" precise, meaning "marked by exactness and accuracy of expression or detail," when the article itself had fixed a specific number? That's sloppy writing.
A percentage is irrelevant without putting a demographic number on it. Even at 1%, that number is roughly equal to the population of our 5 least populated states plus D.C. combined. At 1.7%, the lowest number mentioned in the article, that expands to 7 states plus D.C (24 electoral votes worth, between PA & FL).
WZ cherry-picked the smallest percentage in an foolhardy effort to minimize the group--a typical, flawed tactic--when there is no necessity and, more damningly, their own citation is self-contradictory.
It is a waste of time to focus on the size of the sub-population when arguing these issues not only because studies vary widely as clear in their own chosen article but because we would never stand for it when it comes to the 1.7%-2.2% of Americans who are ethnic Jews.
It's such a stupid talking-point that needless distracts from morality, tradition and other grounds. It's also self defeating. If the population is so tiny, it can be said, why all the fuss about a threat posed?
Even taking a third of the "gay vote" shows they may be more apt to vote Republican than a comparably sized population if you accept the lowest estimates of how many gays there are: American Jews who went 8/10 for Obama in 2008.
Would many advocate abandoning the Jewish vote when they supported the most socialist candidate they could find in every presidential election in the past 100 years?
In my experience talking politics with self-identified gays--practicing and celibate--from the wealthy to the working poor, out and closeted alike, economic issues are a very high priority but so is personal liberty.
The younger ones often fit well in the "libertarian conservative" wing of the Republican Party; some of them realize it and vote Republican. Others who are older have a loathing of modern Republicans because they see the party as beholden to radical evangelical religious social conservatives, yet they espouse Republican views on issues of taxation, monetary policy, foreign policy, personal freedom, free markets, size of gov't and so forth.
It's ironic Gov. Daniels was excoriated for suggesting budgetary and economic issues take a priority role in 2012 over social policy and yet Republicans' biggest success has come with the Tea Party movement, with whom his critics identify, that does just that.
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