Any LGBT person who belongs to the Republican party as it stands right now is a fool.
Or...they have a death wish.
In California, most Blacks voted for Prop 8. In Baltimore and Prince Georges County (heavily Democrat & Black areas), they voted against gay marriage in Maryland.
The California vote is ancient history. Maryland goes back two and a half years, which is "almost ancient history" as well, considering how the issue has evolved. I'd like to see a study what the black % would be now.
I don't even think THAT is a racial thing, either, but more a function of Christian religion, which is somewhat more prevalent among the black demographic, as well as the old southern white males who often vote against these issues.
I feel that being Republican is actually inherently more likely to produce an antigay mindset, than is being Christian/religious.
Gay people already have the same individual rights and freedoms as everyone else.
This will go down, certainly, as the most naively stupid quote that I will see in all of 2015, and the year isn't even halfway over yet. See what I said in the response to Kane, at the bottom - all of this is entirely true.
To say that ALL members of a political party have the singular goal of reversing rights is a stretch too far into hyperbole, scaremongering, and generalisation,
When a political, party has STATED that it intends to deny you equality if it gets it's way, anyone voting to give them power is participating.
I
challenge you, CG, to provide me with a
list of Republicans in high political office, in any U. S. state or legislatively sitting in the Capitol in Washington DC, who is supportive of full rights for LGBT people. You CAN'T, can you? Sure, you'll find a few people you can put on that list, IF YOU TRY REALLY HARD, but they'll generally be people that we haven't heard of, such as perhaps a Republican who sits in Raleigh and represents a sector of Winston-Salem or something. You won't find very many people on that list.
On the other hand, you're right...IF by "ALL members of a political party" you're including absolutely every person who has ever joined the Republican Party, even some local individuals from rural Texas or central Pennsylvania who actually happen to believe in the dignity of human beings who happen to be born the way they are innately.
But my observation, otherwise, is that GLBT rights are virtually unanimously opposed, IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES, by the PEOPLE WHO HOLD ANY POWER in that Party, and in the 2012 Presidential election year the Republican platform still had viciously anti-gay planks officially part of it.
Most gay white men are closet republicans anyway, so who cares? All of them will be proud and out conservative republicans once the Supreme Court gives them equal protections under the law. There will be no need to continue their fake alliances with democrats and those pesky people of color.
Not true. In many states, just being "out" can or will still get them fired from their jobs, kicked out of their apartments, denied visitation rights to their loved ones (even if on the doorstep of death), etc. I'd change your first word from "Most" to "Some" but, also, race doesn't matter...people of any race (and NOT just men) can have their entire lives destroyed by discrimination or worse just by being Gay-and-Out. This is absolutely race-neutral. A beneficiary of a will or trust, upon the death of a loved one, can summarily have every penny of that inheritance, THOUGH UNEQUIVOCALLY STATED IN A LEGAL DOCUMENT, stolen at the discretion of others. Our "eyes on the prize" need to include the quest for more than just the right to marry. That marriage right alone will do you no good in a state like Oklahoma (where, indeed, the right exists - I think??), while the state is populated by a number of people, even including people in political or appointed offices, who believe you should be killed, or that you're far worse than a terrorist [sez Sally Kern, state Rep.], etc.
