Marriage Won’t Turn Gay Population Into Republicans

[DonViejo]

Patrick Egan, writing in the Washington Post, asserts that his “research—which draws upon relatively new data available from representative sample surveys of the lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) population—suggests that gay people will remain firmly in the liberal Democratic camp for quite a long time to come.”

“First and foremost, LGBs hold very liberal views on an entire range of policies that on their face have little to do with gay rights. The figure below displays data from the 2012 American National Election Studies (ANES) survey, which now regularly asks its respondents if they are lesbian, gay or bisexual. The chart shows that LGBs are much more liberal than the general population: they support federal spending on the environment, gun control, immigration reform, Obamacare, and raising taxes on those with high incomes.”



“Gay rights could disappear off the national agenda tomorrow, and gay people as a whole would hold attitudes on other issues giving them every reason to vote like liberal Democrats. Huge shifts in a conservative direction—on some issues, 15 percentage points or more—would have to occur for LGBs to look like straight people politically.”

http://wonkwire.com/2015/06/30/same-sex-marriage-wont-turn-gay-population-into-republicans/

[KamaAina]

1. What happened to the T?

Caitlyn Jenner wants to know.

[irisblue]

3. She is a Republican, so not likely to be liberal

[KamaAina]

4. But she and other T's were left out of some reason

[KamaAina]

2. Of course not.

Not as long as repukes continue to treat them as subhuman.

[DemocraticWing]

5. Not to mention that we need Civil Rights passed.

But yes, the marginalization of the LGBTQ community has left us poorer and more vulnerable to problems which Republicans also have no solution for.

The fight will probably never end.