Gay people can be wingnuts too. It doesn’t make sense to most of us, but it doesn’t make sense to me for straight people to be wingnuts, either. Here’s Richard Grenell, who “served briefly as Mitt Romney’s foreign-policy and national-security spokesman.”

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The claim that gays should be barred from conservative activism is not only bigoted but is a bipartisan view. The intolerant assault comes from the far right, who object to Republicans who are gay, and the far left, who object to gays being Republicans. When the extremists on both sides are the only ones speaking up, the majority suffers.

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Americans who agree on the principles of self-reliance, capitalism, unapologetic U.S. global leadership and a government designed to do what the private sector can’t or won’t do should support Mr. Romney. Mr. Obama, conversely, has demonstrated a willingness to abandon the entrepreneurial spirit that made America great while embracing a new era of government-centered decisions.

While there are many reasons not to vote to re-elect President Obama, gay marriage is not one of those issues. National and economic security absolutely are.

Pure wingnut, all the way. His sexuality is just ‘an issue on which we disagree.’ And he says intolerance is bipartisan. It takes some departure from the facts to be a wingnut, IMHO, and believing Democrats are as intolerant as Republicans is just one more of those departures.