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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: PartyTime who wrote (37856)2/21/2005 10:14:11 AM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (3) of 173976
 
I think that one thing that is coming clearer everyday is that there are many gay republicans. There is this notion that all gays are liberals, but I would argue that gays are statistically evenly spread between conservatives and liberals.

Those gay souls that are also given to a conservative calling find themselves in a particular bind. Many of their conservative brethren loathe homosexuality. Often they loathe it to cover their own latent homosexual tendencies.

Thus conservative gays have to tread the back alleys of internet advertising, escorts and "foreign travel". They cannot come out of the closet, because if they do they will be scorned. So they remain in hiding...not even the Secret Service can find them out...but if they learned how to Google...they'd be much more effective. But maybe they don't want to know either!

So while the conservatives like to point at progressives as the "gay party", the truth is that both parties have gays in equal numbers. The conservative gays are still living in fear of being found out, while liberal gays have simply allowed themselves to be who they are.

Now as the recent tapes

nytimes.com

reveal about Bush, the question of how to portray his politics to his base with regard to gays is a political calculation. In order to keep the evangelical base faithful he has to kick gays a bit. But not too hard as it goes against Bush's own admission of being a sinner. He who is without sin cast the first stone...but hey...nothing wrong with a pebble right?

Orca
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