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Two unavoidable facts stand out when examining the policy actions on gay issues over the past 30 years (1) The Republicans and anti-gay (2) Democrats are not pro-gay. By 2009, there are few differences between the Republican and Democratic politicians on gay issues, just that Democratic voters rather than shock and some gay Republicans are more likely to promote peaceful pro-freedom positions. It may be a difference between the two parties were before, but that was notthe case for a long time.
In 1978, however, California Governor Ronald Reagan, the Briggs initiative, which would exclude homosexuals from teaching in public schools. In a commentary, as he wrote early in his presidential campaign, Reagan wrote, "the prevailing scientific opinion is that the sexuality of an individual in a very early age that a child is determined and influenced the teachers do not really have that." This, in the late '70s, when Jimmy Carter was publicly refuse to meet with gay groups. L 'Initiative was defeated overwhelmingly, in particular on the efforts of Reagan, but the momentum was instrumental in the formation of the Log Cabin Republicans.
Reagan was the first president, two openly gay interior designer Ted Graber and invite its partners to spend the night at the White House. Washington Post reporter Robert Kaiser called Reagan a "closet tolerant". When Reagan was a homosexual was not because no one asked him his views, not because he was hiding something.
The number of gayDischarge from the military each year was under Reagan. In contrast, the number of homosexuals each full year under Bill Clinton downloaded with one exception, doubling from 617 in 1994-1231 in 2000. The number of gays discharged fell on each full year under George W. Bush, with one exception, halved, from 1,273 in 2001 to 612 in 2006. Gay rights groups report the number of gays discharged for decades, but they never break through the gift because it will see the numbers of Democratsevil and Republicans look good.
Obama said recently that it would prohibit gays in the military and spent exactly zero time to fulfill this promise should be repealed. He refused a manager to stay on the study of gay, until the law changed the subject and content is destroyed by inaction, the soldier's military career as a translator Arabic Dan Choi.
Our opponents at the beginning of gay marriage in Chief of his settlement with the invocation of Rick Warren,strong financial supporter of the anti-gay marriage Proposition eighth Happy days are here again!
Independent Gay Forum reports that cut away all the mark of 100 days of Obama presidential debate WhiteHouse.gov almost all gay civil rights issues for their part, together with a reference to repeal Do not Ask Do not Tell, the number of "Promises" gay from eight to three, and the slot to talk about gay issues than half a page a few sentences. contradicted by bloggers, someSupport material, but not the promises, the Defense of Marriage Act or a quote on gay civil rights aside. "Change you can believe in" apparently means that we can be confident that gay campaign will regularly fooled by promises of Obama's website.
In Washington, DC, Mayor Marion Barry, former Democratic recently awoke from a nap to realize that he had decided to accept for error with a unanimous City Council, marriages between same-sex couples performed elsewhere, andThe Council then asked for a do-over in order to be able to resume his vote.
Meanwhile, gay-friendly candidates and strategies on the rise, even in the religious wing of the Republican Party. In 2008, televangelist Pat Robertson endorsed the presidential primary, Rudy Giuliani, the pro-gay great Republican candidate, a man with a gay male couple Shacked after her divorce, and promised them that if New York ever legalized gay marriage, he would preside over theirCeremony.
Focus on the Family, James Dobson's group, which recently expressed its openness to a gay Obama appointing Supreme Court: "The problem is not their sexual orientation is, whether it be a good judge or not .. " Sexual orientation "should never come. Nor is it relevant to the equation."
When in 2009 that gay support for the Democratic Party because I agree with each of their non-gay-related positions, passes well. It's a little 'suspect that so many gay tout lefull line of the Democratic Party, from global warming to Guantanamo Bay. But if you vote Democratic because of their attitude of superiority are gay issues are not always a lot of business.
How about this "pro-gay positions? Republicans are more aggressive than Democrats in the war against Islamic extremists, who are extremely harsh in their condemnation and punishment of gays.
Republicans are more stringent enforcement of law as a boon for gay Democrats, who are morelikely to suffer from crimes of bias. Republicans are more likely to support gun rights, as in the recent DC gun laws the Supreme Court, which contained a gay actor who wants to protect themselves against anti-gay violence.
Republicans lower taxes than Democrats and gays have more disposable income or heterosexual.
Why the Republican Party the party's real pro-gay? The fact that Republican politicians are not anti-gay politicians and the Democratic Party does not solve the problem pro-gay. L 'The fact that Republican positions make more sense as a democratic positions on gay issues (for example, against "hate crimes" laws of privileged minorities) also helps. But the main reason is that the Republican party more inclined to protect the freedom of the individual, certainly in the economic, social and even in some sectors (such as smoking and diet-related) is. They are pretty hard to police, can support the freedoms are protected. And they are more likely to supportDefense, we can hold in a country that protects the rights, in the first place.
If the Republican Party is best for this country and the party that is best for this country better for all of us, then the Republican Party the party's real pro-gay.
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