Andrew Sullivan Has 1 Single Way The Republicans Can Woo The Gays
Years ago Andrew Sullivan, WHOSE BEARD HAS REACHED OUTRAGEOUS BUSHINESS, abandoned his conservative roots, and now he’s sort of abandoning his Democratic sway, what with that terrible Obama person. But he hasn’t written off the GOP entirely … but it’ll take some major pendulum swinging to get him and other reasonable gays back on board. Namely, Republicans will have to drop support of discrimination from their platforms, which seems like an obvious piece of jetsam to take care of? [Big Think]
Putting aside the astonishingly poor way he presents himself, like some mumbling, rambling homeless guy who found a pair of designer frames in a dumpster…
Sully thinks our choice is the party that represents “the least worst option,” and advises us to side with the party who is the “least hostile”?
Good god. How dim and pathetic.
There is a party that endorses full LGBT equality. If you think Democrats didn’t earn your vote, rub your big Green vote in their stupid faces.
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Sullivan is delusional. I just don’t see the GOP supporting full equality in any way, shape or form. Everyone of them voted against repeal of DADT recently and the overwhelming majority oppose same-sex marriage as well as ENDA, they’ve made that quite clear. Though I applaud the Log Cabiners bringing a suit to overturn it, they still support a party that doesn’t support [them]. How on earth do they think they can change their party from within? Has the GOP authored any equality bills? If not, why would the Log Cabin group they think the party will change?
Ake, No. 4….one of the Libertarian tenets is that government should be removed from marriage. I dono’t see how that could happen. How would gay couples or straight couples for that matter get access to the 1100 plus benefits that come only at the federal level and over 400 at the state? I’m a Green, the first party to endorse marriage equality but we can’t even get enough votes to pass the primaries, neither will the Libertarians. Its rigged against us and few politicians worth their salt are going to stick their necks out to make that a campaign issue, at least not for the presidency. Its political suicide and they’re not that progressive anyway.
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Patient Less Than Zero is and has ALWAYS been a Gay Republican. Now of course he has “Buyer’s Remorse.”
But he’s still a Gay Republican.