This poll says otherwise:

http://michiganmessenger.com/36668/straight-pride-shirts-at-tea-party-rally-draw-fire

“The connection comes as a new University of Washington poll found that of those Americans who supported the Tea Party movement…Only 36 percent think gay and lesbian couples should be allowed to adopt children, and just 17 percent are in favor of same-sex marriage.”

But AFTER elected, the “Tea Party” candidates will align and vote with the Republican Party, and while they are quiet for the time being about social issues, and especially Gay Rights, their internal demons will arise, and they will fight against our equality.

Mark my words, please.

In this story, with the headline “The Republican Party has reached a turning point” (http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/08/27/25805) it was stated that “Even the Tea Party’s narrow focus on economic issues has changed the national conversation.”

Finally, in this story which has the headline “Tea Partiers support overturn of DOMA” (http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/07/09/24205) it was said that “the New York Times found that, for the most part, the Tea Party leaders supported the decision to overturn the federal Defense of Marriage Act as a victory for states’ rights, even if they don’t much like the consequences.”

These three stories seem to indicate a belief that the Tea Party would remain quiet on the issue of gay marriage, leave it as a states-right issue, and focus on economic issues.

It seems to me now, and it seemed to me then, unlikely that Tea Partiers would remain quiet about this issue once they had candidates in power.

This is stereotypical republican behavior. Election after election republicans like to tell us what the American People want, and pander to the small-minded religious types, THEN when elected they give tax breaks to the rich. Typical, normal conservative behavior, par for the course. Bait-and-switch.

Both parties are bankrupt, and not just on matters of LGBT rights.

The Democrats are now the party of war (four of them from Palestine to Pakistan) and blood for oil. They’ve replaced Republicans as union busters, promoters of draconian cuts in social services cuts, deregulators, enablers of environmental disasters and the party that passes out trillions in handout/bailouts to the rich.

It absolutely doesn’t matter which of them is in power. And next fall if the Democrats get clobbered Obama and the Republicans will carry on, just as Clinton and the Republicans did over a decade ago.

The only solution is political independence.

The comment above is the wrong address obviously.