Funny how you have to go back all the way to the Cold War and the 1980s to find an example of a liberal Democrat that’s just as homophobic as the mainstream GOP party is today, yet I can just do a quick Google search and find tons of articles of mainstream Republicans acting homophobic from just last week.

A gay man dropping a note informing this woman that he’s gay and still in the closet gives her confidence that The GOP is welcoming?

Is there somewhere I can apply for a refund on all of the taxes I paid that allegedly went toward education?

It’s also true that throughout the long gestation of Rights for Gays the socialists and communists, and left, of this world, were extremely anti-gay. During the Cold War it was said in Moscow, and Havana, etc, that gays were caused by Christian Capitalism — while in America, and other right-wing places, we were from Godless Communism.

I note too that until the 1990s gays were not welcome in the Democratic Party — no politician of the D-side came out for us. It was Republican John Linday in NYC who ended the bar raids. His predecessor Democrat Robert Wagner increased them.

No, the nation has been evolving. Some faster than others, still others knuckle dragging. Both parties have made fits and starts, and we all know heteros are leery of us — help them evolve, don’t castigate them for a mere beginning.

Meanwhile, it was Barry Goldwater, Mr. Republican, who said, in 1994: “you don’t have to like it, but gay Americans deserve full constitutional rights, including marriage and military service.” He said it when Bill Clinton, “our friend” — was signing DOMA and DADT at 2 AM so he wouldn’t be so obvious.

The whole D is for us, R is against us, is nuts.

And we gays would be better off not supporting one party or the other — for I don’t need one party or the other for me, or against me, but I need 320 million Americans to not give a damn one way or the other. Let the Republicans evolve; we have gone along with Democrats evolving — they both will come in their own time. For God is on our side.

Bopp, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, pointed to the popularity of constitutional amendments that ban same-sex marriage and argued that the party benefits politically from its opposition to it.

Here’s a little taste of that article:

“Pick, the Log Cabin’s program director and an evangelical Christian, however, characterized the tone of the party’s discussions about same-sex marriage in meetings of the Constitution subcommittee as largely “hostile.”
“We lost,” she said. “And you could say the social conservatives in our party dropped the hammer harder because we were there.”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/08/29/160263621/some-gay-republicans-see-platform-setback-as-sign-victory-is-near

I know it’s hard. I know everyone’s situation is different. I’m thankful every day for the insanely positive experience I had coming out. And I’m willing to give a pass to the random closeted people who just aren’t ready to come out yet.

But this guy is working for a party with stated policy goals that seek to make him officially a second-class citizen. He’s not quite at the level of a public official, but it’s something close, and I’m not ready to heave a sympathetic sigh.

As the interviewee said, you can be heterosexual and be for gay rights – the note dropper can maintain his facade of heterosexuality and help push back against the anti-gays. But he doesn’t – instead he fearfully drops a note on someone’s lap. Pathetic.

By one or two other delegates.