Posted on 11/21/2012 3:13:08 AM PST by IbJensen
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) -At least three-quarters – and perhaps as much as 90 percent – of homosexual voters supported Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, a high return on the president’s decision to court key Democratic constituencies.
A national poll found that homosexual and transgender voters backed Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by a margin of 76 percent to 22 percent.
LGBT voters made up five percent of the electorate, according to Gary J. Gates of the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which specializes in homosexual and transgender issues. The survey was conducted in conjunction with Gallup.
That is higher than the highest estimate of the homosexual population, which Gallup has said totals 3.4 percent.
The findings were, perhaps surprisingly, lower than other estimates.
A Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) pre-election poll showed nearly 90 percent of homosexuals planned to vote for Obama.
“In this close election, data suggest that the overwhelming LGBT support for President Obama constitutes a key factor in his victory,” Gates stated.
A changing electorate – of which homosexual voters are a favored component – powered Obama to victory.
“Democrats have been winning big over Republicans among gay voters, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, and Jews. Some of the groups are relatively small, but together they make up about one-third of the electorate, forcing Republicans to capture much of the remaining two-thirds to win elections,” the New York Times reported. “By comparison, white evangelical voters, who vote overwhelmingly for Republicans, make up about one-fourth of the electorate, and their numbers are not growing as rapidly. ”
Although evangelicals supported Mitt Romney by double-digits, Roman Catholic voters favored Obama by 15 percent.
However, the Catholic vote split largely down ethnic lines. White Catholics, who made up 18 percent of the electorate, supported Romney over Obama 59-40. Hispanic Catholics, on the other hand, favored President Obama by 54 points.
A recent Barna study showed 60 percent of Hispanics believe marriage is between one man and one woman. They are evenly split on abortion.
But Charisma News reports, “54 percent identify themselves first as Hispanic or Latino before American, Catholic, or Christian.”
The electoral loss has some Republicans insisting the party must jettison its pro-life plank and focus on pro-family issues.
Joseph Curl of The Washington Times wrote that the Republican Party “needs to run away from its archaic stance” on abortion and is “on the wrong side of history” on redefining marriage. Charles Krauthammer also proposed that the party embrace amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Principled conservatives have said the worst thing the Republican Party can do is forsake its principles.
Erick Erickson of RedState.com has written the one-quarter of Hispanics and the one-tenth of black voters who supported Mitt Romney “are strongly social conservative and could not vote for the party of killing kids and gay marriage. So, they voted GOP. You throw out the social conservatives and you throw out those Hispanic and black voters.”
Before the election, Bishop E.W. Jackson attempted to lead an “exodus” of black voters who put the teachings of Scripture above party allegiance out of the Democratic Party. He vows to continue his outreach.
Many believe certain fixtures of the Republican establishment are exploiting the 2012 election results to liberalize the party, long a goal of much of the GOP leadership.
Matthew Schmitz wrote in First Things, “As per usual, the inevitable calls to abandon social issues will have more to do with the preferences of individual pundits than a sober reading of the facts
I’m surprised it’s not 100%
truly, only the civil unions should be govt rules -- marriage is a sacrament
when we inaugurate government medical care and ownership, then abortion is in the realm of government
My brothers gay....he’s also a militant lefty. He was laid off 8 days after the election. I tried my best, but I couldn’t keep from laughing at him. I told him at least he can marry his hope and change.
OMIGAWD, IT’S A MANDATE!!!"
LOL - Post of the day! Thanks for the laugh.
Thanks and Happy Thanksgiving, what a world, what a world, My heart breaks for these Untied States.
Birds of a feather.
And our winner for Least Surprising News Headline of 2012 is...
I figured a fag like Obama would do better among his own kind.
So running a queer-loving candidate like Romney didn’t help at all. Remember that in 4 years and nominate someone like Allen West.
The homos really aren’t the problem. There are far too few of them to be a problem.
The problem lies with the secular humanist leftists who are using the homos to shake a fist in God’s face.
Throughout 2 Kings, you see rulers who cause their society to commit sin and do evil in the eyes of the Lord. This is what the left is doing to our country.
Example, one of many:
“He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his predecessors had done. He did not turn away from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, which he had caused Israel to commit.”
Too bad blow-up, anatomically correct Obama dolls aren’t sold. They would be a great ‘Holiday’ gift for all the various sexes.
I’m surprised the percentage isn’t larger. I woould have expected more like 90%.
Abortion is in the realm of the government because it is killing babies what is wrong with you two asking something so goofy?
aren’t u Catholic cronos
I mean really
If a government has to decide where medical money gets spent, then logical thinking would be to eliminate those who consume money hence euthanasia -- as we see in the UK NHS liverpool care system and abort to reduce people entering into "the system"
Get the government out of making such decisions about life and death -- no Medicare, no obamacare, no Welfare state.
I want the government to outlaw abortion at best or leave it to states at worst
That has been an issue for 4 decades before national health care
Do you support outlawing abortion by laws passed wherever?
Yes or No?
No parsing
This is why the Democrats embraced gay marraige and why they have politicized homosexuals to the point that they vote against their own financial self-interest. They have become the new N*****s.
your question: Do you support outlawing abortion by laws passed wherever? YES. I want abortion banned utterly -- any form of baby killing is baby killing
BUT, note what I said -- if we hand over the reins of medical health-care to the government, we have to expect that ultimately they will say "abortion, euthanasia good" -- if a bureaucracy has to coldly decide on who gets what medical money, rather than a market system, then we have to expect this
As an analogy, take the case of the recent Anglican move to have women bishops -- they are crying about it, but it was inevitable from the time they had pastoresses.
One step leads to an irrevocable place forward
I was arguing with libs on Huff and said contraception and abortion is wrong and you know what they said "see, its cheaper for the healthcare if less babies are born" -- now, do you get my point? -- if we take that one step (as we did) for govt healthcare, then the slide to abortion on demand is going to happen.
I cannot say I support outlawing abortion and I am conservative Christian. Abortion, in my Opinion is murder. I just think that the roll of our government has taken too much control in the social interests. We have to answer to God for our actions, if people choose abortion, they choose sin. Acceptance is not the answer to our problems, Govement is not the answer, actually, in IMHO, ignorant citizens, spineless government, and the leftist people and government have caused this pathetic mess. The US government needs to protect the constitution and my inalienable rights! Protect this country for which it stands, One Nation Under God! Free people, the right to make stupid decisions and bear arms!
—— Abortion, in my Opinion is murder. I just think that the roll of our government has taken too much control in the social interests. -—
The primary responsibility of government is to defend life.
Should homicide be decriminalized?
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