re: #51 Belafon

Try this for a bit of perspective, though: There a number of gays that still vote Republican, and a number of gays (Andrew Sullivan comes to mind) that only vote Democrat because Republican policies affect them personally. Eventually, gays will become enough of a non-issue that most Republicans politicians will not bother with it. Then, these gays will return, because now all these people will worry about is taxes.

This entire argument is predicated on the idea that Gays are fundamentally different from blacks somehow, more greedy and less likely to remember who hates them and fucked them over.

I don’t buy it. Log Cabin Republicans and GoProud have always been a small minority within a minority. I know a bunch of gay people, mostly young but not all, not one of them would even consider voting Republican.