No, the GOP is not homophobic...

From a guy I talk to sometimes:

No one is "bashing" gays. The Republican Party is Anti-Gay marraige, Anti Gay rights. I don't see any Bashing being done.

anti-gay marriage, rights seems like a violation of gay people's rights and in my opinion it needs to be stopped

hate to know just what his definition of "bashing" is!

I guess as long as they arent hitting us with bats, its ok?

No gay-bashing there.

Just crucifying.

...they are not racists, but dont condone inter-racial marriage.

:puke:

"stop bashing homos"

Somebody was dumping on Andy Sullivan and Jimmy Boy got pissed.

What an idiot, he can't even stop a slur without making a slur.

And the GOP in Virginia doesn't want to put gay men and women in prison for the exact same acts which "straights" may perform. And the GOP doesn't want to deny committed, long-term gay partners the same rights afforded to divorced heterosexuals. And Ronald Reagan didn't turn his back on AIDS research at a critical time when intervention might have made a real difference. And Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, and a host of other GOP fund-raisers don't equate homosexuality with "sin" while rousing certain of their followers to such a fever pitch that some proceed to assault and even murder other human beings for the "crime" of being gay. But bashing? Nah, never any bashing.

Don't believe in violence against homosexuals.

They just believe that homosexuals shouldn't be entitled to the same rights as heterosexuals.

The sad thing is, they don't find anything wrong with this position.

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