Republicans Deeply Divided On Federal Anti-Gay Amendment

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/04/040705gopconflict.htm

A new poll shows deep divisions in the Republican Party over the proposed federal amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

The Wall Street Journal/NBC poll shows that 48% of Republicans support Congressional legislation banning same-sex marriage, while 47% of the party opposes such legislation.

“This poll confirms what we’ve known for a while - there is no appetite to pass an unnecessary and discriminatory anti-family constitutional amendment, and there is certainly no consensus on this issue within the Republican Party,” said Log Cabin Republicans President Patrick Guerriero.

though. Those republicans who are against it are against it ONLY because it would be a federal encroachment into states rights, not because they're decent moral people.

It just makes no sense. None. Zip. Silch. Nada.

Can anyone explain this to me? Anyone? Anyone?


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and being Republican goes along well with being a male who likes the old-style male privileges/license to be limitedly moral, prostitute-using, material wealth-centered.

It's not polite to talk of this, but in times when homophobia was greater than it is now gay people were on the whole more distorted and damaged people, and were more extreme in their response to a world out to deny their humanity and destroy them. At one extreme were the suicides and extreme closet cases, at the other some people who felt that if the rest of the world suspended its morality in dealing with them, they would retaliate by suspending their own morality as well. Immoralism and treachery and subversion has been regarded as a legitimate way of living in the world by some number of gay people throughout history. Famously a good number of Alfred Hitchcock's villains are cast in a way to suggest to his audience, at the time, this variety of gay man.

Republicanism as a whole is about an older, more psychologically pathological and inhumane society. People stick with it because they don't or can't succeed as well in an environment that is more fair.

NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

DIRECTORS
LOCATION

Bill Brownson, Chairman
Columbus, OH

Tim Schoeffler, Vice Chair
Washington, DC

Peter Kingma, Secretary
Chicago, IL

Andy Hendricks, Treasurer
Austin, TX

Bob Stears, Chair Emeritus
New York, NY

Brian Ballard Seattle, WA
Troy Benavidez
Albuquerque, NM

Philip Bradley
John's Island, SC

Bev Brown
Florence, OR

Karen Cookston
Columbus, OH

Russell Doe
Sun Valley, CA

Carla Halbrook
Dallas, TX

Terry Hamilton
Los Angeles, CA

David Hanson
San Juan Capistrano, CA

John Herrick
West Palm Beach, FL

Rebecca Maestri Arlington, VA
Patrick Murphy New York, NY
Jonathan Peterson Chicago, IL
Tom Wahl, Jr. Rochester, NY
Marc Yeager Atlanta, GA

Notice the preponderance of people from the Bible Belt and places that were until the last decade or two quite rabidly Republican/white/conservative/wealthy.