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Repubs Heart Gays - As Long As They're Self-Hating, Lying Hos

I guess you could call me a fag hag. After all, my first fianc� was a

gay man. Many of my good friends and co-workers are gay and lesbian. I

love them the way they are. I wouldn't want them to change anything

about themselves. As a Christian, I believe that God made them gay and

lesbian. And even if I did not believe that, I also think that it's

none of my damn business. Who died and made me George W. Bush that I

should have the right to tell someone what they are and are not

allowed to do with their lives, their loves, or their bodies?

One of the reasons that I am a Democrat is that my party, as a matter

of policy, does not presume to judge or condemn people for their

sexual orientation, or any other orientation for that matter. And as

far as I know, my out and proud gay and lesbian friends are Democrats

for that reason also. These are normal, well-adjusted people, many

with spouses and children, who care very much about 'family values'.

How can society be worse off with married, committed, loving couples

who are raising happy, loved children? 'Dr'. Dobson can contest the

overwhelming empirical evidence that children with gay parents are

overall just as well-adjusted as children with straight parents all he

wants, but he and his ilk don't care for any science that doesn't fit

their theology.

Don't start in with me about drag queens, leather bars and

promiscuity. If the only 'freaks' out there were gay freaks, you might

have a point. But they aren't, so you don't.

My point is that if you are are out and proud, comfortable and happy

with who you are, the Republican Party is not the place for you.

Matt Sanchez made a big deal about how his conservative friends were

all supportive of him. Well, la-di-da. What's the message here? The

message is if you are closeted, ashamed, and forced to act out in

dark, twisted ways (going to or being a prostitute, looking for sex

with inappropriate partners such as minors) because you can't be your

real self in public, Republicans will show you the love. Hide, lie,

deny, sell or buy sex - be a hypocrite - that's what we like, Matt!

Semper Fi, baby!

They'll go to the 'Matt' (sorry!) for you only if you deny who you

are. Sexually stalk minors? No big deal, Mark Foley! They were asking

for it. Go to a prostitute and buy drugs? Poor Ted Haggard - we'll

pray the gay away!

The Republican party also attracts a number of people who align

themselves with - well, I won't use the pass� term 'oppressors', but

let's say those who feel that 'equal opportunity' means 'special

privileges'. People like Larry Elder, Clarence Thomas, Alan Keyes, Ann

Coulter or Michelle Malkin, who somehow think that because they've

gotten conservative attention by rejecting those from whence they

came, that they are somehow superior to those who are fighting for

equal rights - as if they would be where they are without those that

have gone before them and fought for what they are so happy to

dismiss; as if their own intelligence and hard work was what made them

better than the hand-wringing whiners on the left. These people are so

hungry to prove that they're 'different' that they gladly support

people and policies that are detrimental to their own interests.

"See," they cry, "I'm black/female/gay/non-white, but I'm so

smart/moral/tough/superior that they'll accept me even though they

look down on everyone else like me! I won't let my 'group' define me!

I'm different!" How sad that they can't see how self-defeating that

is. What a shame that they can't see how they're being used - which,

of course, they are the first to stridently deny. "I'm an iconoclast!

I don't need special privileges to succeed, unlike those weak, lazy

cry-babies who whine about equal opportunity!" For these folks, being

a woman in a sea of other women is not self-affirming or unique

enough. Go where you will stand out and be noticed! It's about

eliminating the competition.

I'd like to see the welcome reception that Mighty Matt the Manly

Masculine Marine would receive from his new friends if he were to show

up in uniform with a same-sex partner. Would Ann Coulter be draping

herself around him then? Would David Horowitz give him and his partner

a friendly hug? Would his new buddies O'Reilly and Hannity be

clamoring for his company on their shows? Oh, but I forgot - according

to Matt, he's "not very good at being gay." Well, I could be wrong,

Matty my man, but it sure looked to me as if you were very good indeed

at being gay. From what I understand from men about how that stuff

works, it's sort of difficult to fake. Oh, but you were only acting!

You're not gay any more? I see. Go buy some more pantsuits for your

wife, Corky.

And while we're on the subject, I have serious doubts about the claim

that propelled you into the conservative spotlight. "Baby-killer"?

Honey, that was so 40 years ago! I think your Vietnam combat fantasies

may have gotten the better of you there.

As long as you and people like you are willing to lie and twist

yourselves around for the approval of people who despise who you

really are, these deadly lies about being able to change your sexual

orientation (not 'preference') with willpower, therapy, or prayer will

continue to proliferate and damage people for generations to come! The

Republican party is all about denial of reality, so maybe it is the

place for you after all.

Hey, Matty, I just thought of something! I know the perfect gal for

you! She's single, conservative, Christian and slutty! Why don't you