the last numbers i saw for the top democRAT donor factions were: 1.Secular Jews, 2.Women, 3.Blacks, 4.Homosexuals
Posted on 11/13/2004 6:18:02 PM PST by freedom44
Michael Winn, 62, a health care industry professional who lives in Deerfield Beach, Fla., said he voted for George W. Bush for president this year after having voted for Al Gore four years ago.
Winn is a gay man and a lifelong Democrat, although he admits he “strayed” from his party in the 1980s when he voted for Ronald Reagan.
“When 9/11 happened, I thought President Bush was so wonderful because he brought the country together,” he said. “He began the war on terrorism, which I strongly support.”
Winn makes clear that he disagrees with the president on some issues, such as a constitutional ban on gay marriage and stem cell research.
“But I feel the issue of national security is more important than the issue of gay marriage and the other issues I don’t agree with him on,” he said.
Winn is among those who put a face on the 23 percent of gay voters that a national exit poll claimed voted for Bush, breaking from the 77 percent of their gay brothers and sisters who reported voting for Democrat John Kerry.
The 23 percent of gay voters who backed the president translate into more than one million gay male, lesbian, or bisexual voters, according to the exit poll, a figure that stunned and baffled many gay activists.
The percentage was nearly identical to the level of gay support for Bush four years ago, and for Republican nominee Bob Dole in 1996.
Kerry waffles hurt But to voters like Winn and James Warren, 41, a resident of nearby Oakland Park, Fla., there should be no surprise over why they chose Bush over Kerry in the key battleground state of Florida.
“John Kerry is an admirable man,” said Warren, an airplane mechanic who is retired on a disability. “Right now, the No. 1 issue is terrorism. I watched John Kerry waffle on that issue. I’m not comfortable with that.”
The two men said that while they don’t share Bush’s support for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, they also don’t agree with efforts by gay activists to push the issue at this time.
“I look at gay marriage as a way for attorneys to make money,” Warren said. “That’s why this has gotten into the media.”
“I don’t agree with gay marriage,” Winn said. “I think a marriage should be between a man and a woman. I do feel civil unions should be approved.”
Chris Taylor, 42, a Wall Street financial analyst who lives in New York’s Greenwich Village, said he voted for Bush because he agreed far more with his positions on the issues than Kerry’s positions.
“Gay issues are only 20 percent of what I base my vote on,” he said. “I base my vote mostly on national defense and economic issues, like taxes and free trade.”
Added Taylor, who moved to New York three years ago from Atlanta, “Basically, I’m a small government kind of guy. The only area I want government to be strong is national defense and law enforcement.”
Unlike Winn and Warren, Taylor said he supports the goal of obtaining legalized same-sex marriage but believes gay rights leaders made a mistake by pressing forward too soon.
“I think the gay movement has been incredibly irresponsible in the way they handled the gay marriage issue,” he said. “The gay movement rushed into this without thinking it through. They went full steam ahead, and we got shot down.”
Taylor acknowledges that White House political adviser Karl Rove capitalized on the gay marriage issue to help defeat Kerry. Media reports indicate that Rove encouraged conservatives to place gay marriage bans on the ballot in battleground states, encouraging a stronger evangelical voter turnout.
But Taylor’s support for Bush on a wide range of non-gay issues justified his decision to vote for a president who may have resorted to gay baiting to win election to a second term, Taylor said.
“You never get perfection,” he said. “You have to go with the candidate who is the least bad.”
Some gay Bush supporters have said their backing of the president has miffed some of their friends and acquaintances, who criticize them for going against the best interests of fellow gays. Taylor said he has encountered such sentiments in a dramatic way in his Greenwich Village neighborhood, an historic hotbed of liberalism.
“I went to a gay forum last week at the gay community center,” Taylor said. “Every left-wing cause came up. I made a conscious decision, for the first time in my life, not to tell people I’m a Republican.
“I went to a Baptist junior college in the South,” he said. “As a gay person, I felt more at home there than I do now in New York City as a Republican.”
No freedom to pole smoke under TROP regimes unless your name is Arafat. Some actually get it.
Well, you can't fault a person who is making progress. Let's hope he can continue.
Be considerate about playing the skin flute.
Actually, a good number of Gay folks really get it!!! Those that voted for Bush also recognized that if the Arab Muslim Terrorists ever get free to roam in the USA, Gays and Lesbians will be wiped off the face of the earth. Sad to say the majority are so blinded by their gender belief they fail to see the wolves stalking and hiding in wait for their moment to strike. Any Gay or Lesbian person that voted for John Kerry and the Democrat Party voted for their own doom. I wonder when these idiots will wake up!!! Women, who are also destined for rape, abuse, slavery and death from Islam terrorists have gotten it!!! Blacks, who will not be around for a New York minute if the Muslim terrorists have their way, don't have a clue. I guess the Muslim terrorists slaughter of Blacks in Sudan just does not register with American Blacks!!! Go figure!!!
Very odd syntax. Can't just mention the 23 percent, but had to try to work Kerry in there, and say they were "breaking from their brothers and sisters"... amazing.
So now they are going to try to convince us that it was gay voters who put Bush in office for another 4 years. Yeah, right.
It convinces me that some homosexual voters have a far better grasp on politics then most third party voters.
The 23 percent of Gays who voted for Bush is higher than Blacks, Jews and Muslims.
Pretty sad if you ask me.
23% of 2% is still only .5%. I don't doubt that there are some who have their head screwed on straight, but if they are going to try to convince us that Bush's mandate is a nullity because the folks who we think put him in the White House actually did not, then they should think again.
It is and isn't. This only considers the combined national figures, the actually percentages by state fluxuate dramatically. In some states ALL of them got it.
People who suffer from the burdens of the homosexual syndrome, are termed, accurately, homosexual, as a form of description for their actions that may or may not be based upon having homosexual thoughts or sensations.
Homosexual activity is both self-belittlement and self-abandonment in pursuit of satisfying or "trying to please" various intangibles, such that, when satisfied or pleased, gives a person acting out homosexually, a false sense of being loved. You might say, they're scratching an itch that is not there, but it sure does seem like it is there.
No human is "homosexual" because of a gene by birth.
The source of the problem is where parental love for a child was broken, somehow damaged, shattered, in the confused and not yet old enough to understand child, and the child was left to trying to piece together what he or she can not have the skill to make right, leaving them in a particularly needy state, burdened with an emotional syndrome, a kind of handicap.
Something that is not treated well by catering to it, but may be treated daily, as are several other burdens of our existance.
They do not need to be isolated or chased by the law out of sight or into "the closet" or "persecuted" by "Bible thumpers."
They need help, but that is largely up to them, to confront the several pathogens that are unique in each case, and treat them, daily.
the last numbers i saw for the top democRAT donor factions were: 1.Secular Jews, 2.Women, 3.Blacks, 4.Homosexuals
The first step is admitting you have a problem? Please
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