If You Love Someone Who's Gay, How Can You Vote Republican?

[ruggerson]

bumper sticker ideas anyone?

[LostinVA]

1. I asked my Dad that question in November

What made it worse was that November 2 was his gay daughter's birthday. He has no answer.

[Solly Mack]

2. You ever think Mary tells her father (Cheney)

"Gosh, Dad. I know you love me even though your supporters want me dead"?

[seabeyond]

3. i asked my husband that

he has two gay brothers. told him, i am standing up for them more than his own parents. how could that be

they couldnt do it. for the first time in their life, they couldnt vote this year, because they could not vote republican. huge pat on their back from me

[all.of.me]

4. if you love women, children, the working class or even working!

can you vote republican?

you can come up with a SERIES of bumperstickers!

[AlCzervik]

5. if you need to breath air and drink water how can you vote republican?

[kansasblue]

6. just a note to say

that I know gay people in the Republican party that work for change. They don't give money to anti-gay candidates, the don't vote for them. But they feel that they shouldn't abandon any institution. That's like telling all gays to get out of the armed forces. It's good to have people in these institutions working for change, confronting the bigots. Republican should followed their belief of 'government out of your private lives'. So don't alway dismiss someone who is in the Republican party as being opposed to gay rights.

[Solly Mack]

7. Bush is anti-gay...did they vote for him?

The GOP platform is anti-gay.

Your gay friends in the GOP must not do much voting....if they don't vote for anti-gay republicans.

[readmoreoften]

12. the Log Cabin Republicans

came out against George Bush and revoked their support before the election. That's why I'm skeptical about those 23% of gays who voted *.

[ruggerson]

8. I used to think you are right

I don't any more. The Republican party is controlled by crazed, evangelical fundamentalists. They are the party base, they control the nominating process and they control the platform. Moderate republicans are ridiculed, gay republicans are loathed and scorned. Being gay and Republican at this point is tantamount to being a Jewish Nazi in 1937. The only smart thing for a conservative/libertarian gay person to do is to vote Democratic and then later, when the Republican party is effectively destroyed, go back in and help rebuild it.

[sweetladybug]

10. kansasblue, it appears to me that a gay person voting Republican

would be like a jew that voted for Hitler or a chicken that voted for Col. Sanders

[Zynx]

11. Why are they in a party that wants to take away all of their rights?

[ismnotwasm]

9. How Indeed.

Amoung many, many reasons obvious and not, for a progressive person not to vote republican, for anybody with gay loved ones--- it's got to be some sort of abysmal Jerry Springer guest type thinking. I'm never a single issue voter, but since I'm progressive, I don't have to be. I would, though, in this case vote my heart out for my gay brothers and sisters until they have the basic human rights inherently thiers. I'll have to think on the bumber sticker, I'm never good with that kind of thing