I wandered into the gay.com chat room tonight when there was discussion going on about the presidential election. There was one individual who is pushing for McCain – Romney. Let me state that although some are okay, I just don’t get gay Republicans. At first, he was trying to say that the two parties did make a difference. I pointed out that the two candidates had did very different positions on gay rights issues. When that was played out, he ended up saying that he didn’t care or vote about issues related to sexuality. (Yup. the gay man in the chat room at gay.com was completely disinterested in his sexuality. Yes, I am doing a major eye rolling right now.)
I then pointed out that I also vote based on number of issues. I have always been opposed to the war in Iraq, I am concerned about a deficit that is spiraling out of control, and quite a few other issues. We spent a fair amount of time going on about Iraq.
Of course, at the end he still talked about that he voted on other issues, not just his sexuality. The fact that we just spent a good 10 to 15 minutes talking about nothing but the war apparently didn’t count for anything.
Truth to tell, whenever I hear a gay Republican saying that that if they vote about more than just their sexuality, it usually seems to mean ” I can not possibly make a convincing argument that I am opposing my own interests as a gay person, so will we will just blip over that. I will discount any other issues that you bring up,”
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