"Well, I dunno, the ones I've dealt with practically have a secret handshake (insert joke here, so to speak...).
That raises a side issue: nobody with a lick of sense claims a monolithic political outlook for any other minority group; why should they be any different? There're enough pro-abortion, pro-drug-decriminalization, pro-evolution Republicans around - you can go to just about any thread here and find proponents on both sides.
I think the problem they have with the GOP is they claim they want "tolerance." This is nonsense, they want APPROVAL, a "clean different thing."
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Strange, most gays I know seem to feel the era of "secret handshakes" has gone the way of the Salem Witch trials. It's funny, there are so many parallels to other "movements". Older, embittered gays are mad at the younger generation for not appreciating their noble sacrifices and being more interested in living their lives than waving banners.
The uptight ones are mad at the laid back ones for not making their sexuality the be-all and end-all of their existence and shoving it in people's faces 24/7. I know there's been some agonized editorial soul-searching at the surprising numbers of self-identified gays who voted republican this time around but hey, If it was me I'd be a hell of a lot more concerned about social security reform, health insurance reform, tax reform, etc., than "marriage" or the anti-discrimination bill du jour.
In my humble opinion, the problem is that the gay "movement" is so totally dominated by angry, vengeful individuals who are forever trying to get back at whoever bullied them on the playground or at family rejection and are taking out on society at large.
Morality and all of its associated concepts are from the belief that some higher power is defining the correctness of human behavior. Today, "morals" are a religious pagan philosophy of esoteric hobgoblins where transfiguration is from pantheons of fantasies as the medium of infinitization. Others get derision for having an unwavering Judaic belief in Yahweh or Yeshua, although their critics will evangelize insertion of phantasmagoric fetishisms into secular law.
Was Freudian psychoanalytic theory of sexual stages in psychological development more accurate than accredited? The Michael Jackson Complex is an obvious fixation on mutilation of and deviance with human anatomy in the media. It is indicative of a societal mental illness that caters to the lowest common denominator and generated with Pavlovian behavioral conditioning in popular culture.
Should we really be canonizing special societal privileges in the law based on a person's idolatrous fetishes? Perhaps civil union advocates could conclave to enshrine their own phantasmal state religion and consecrate Michael Jackson as its first Ecumenical Pope!
They're called RINOs, like Shays who sponsored this bill.