I see gay republicans as fellow soldiers standing with me desperately filling sandbags, holding back the flood of useful idiots. The only care I have regarding your orientation, is that my chances on Saturday nights with women are microscopically better. (There are no Homophobic economists…)

The left seems to want everybody to act according to the preconceived mental template that they have for them. When someone comes along that doesn’t fit into their template (Gov. Palin, for instance) they utterly and completely flip out. The same happens, I think, with a gay person who has a generally conservative political outlook. You “shouldn’t think that way” so you don’t fit the template, so they attack on that basis.

On the other hand, those like me who more than anything else simply want to live our lives without undue intrusion and interference, your sexual orientation is simply not an issue.

I can only speak for myself, but that’s my thinking on why you as a gay Republican don’t pose any kind of threat, problem, or difficulty to me.

In German, where I live, the head of the right-ish FDP (the libertarians, for want of a better synonym) is openly gay, as is the socialist mayor of Berlin (a Clinton-esque bloviator, oh well). But being gay has ceased to be a political issue, largely because of the right-of-center parties accepting the validity of gay rights.

In Holland Pim Fortyn, a gay populist, was assassinated for his defence of Western liberal democracy against the forces of Islamo-fascism.

Hopefully we’re getting to the point in the United States where being gay no longer means voting for one party, or belonging to the other party means being anti-gay.

Just curious, but were you expecting hostility? If so, why?”

I figured he was just trolling to see if he could get a bite 8^D.

I can imagine most Republicans embracing gays for having heartfelt patriotism. I can’t imagine most Democrats embracing born again Christians for the same. Then again I can’t imagine them embracing anyone having such love of country.

At this point, I find it very rare to hear anti-gay slurs among adults and when I do and challenge it, the person making the slur inevitably (and I do mean always) backs off and affects a kind of sheepish, “just joshing” kind of attitude. This is usually followed by a surprising degree of support for moving past old prejudices regardless of the political leanings of the person in question.

As for Michael Steele, I am all for McCain giving him a cabinet post if/when he gets elected.

On the marriage issue, I wish we’d have had the foresight to keep both hetero and homosexual marriage out of the state’s hands. Since we already abdicated it to the government, I have a hard time being upset if others want equal protection.

Anyway, I hope you know that there are (I think, hope) a lot of us that wish you well, welcome you in our party, and hope that together we can both win elections and improve the country. Thanks for having the guts to get out there.

Just curious, but were you expecting hostility? If so, why?

frankly, i have seen in the past couple of days WAAAAY more small minded acts of personal destruction. good to see my belief in the general goodness of most people is still valid.

I really like Michael Steele, I even sent him money from CA. I certainly hope we haven’t heard the last of him!!