They're gay, conservative and proud

[BrentWil]

Found this to be an interesting story. Good luck trying to get the GOP away from social issues... I actually mean that, good luck.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42711.html

They're gay, conservative and proud
By: Ben Smith
September 25, 2010 09:10 PM EDT

NEW YORK — Even among the gays, the right is on the rise.

The broad surge in the conservative grassroots made it as far as PayPal founder Peter Thiel’s grand apartment overlooking New York’s Union Square Tuesday night, where about 150 backers of the conservative gay group GOProud gathered to laugh at Ann Coulter’s red meat riffs on Democrats, blacks, and the Obamas at a fundraiser organizers touted as “Homocon.”

GOProud is the tea party of the gay rights movement, with well-tailored dark suits in place of revolutionary war garb. The event, complete with lithe young men in black “Freedom is Fabulous” t-shirts guiding guests to the elevator, marked a new high tide in the shift of the Republican Party away from “social issues” and toward a broader complaint about Democratic management of the economy, national security, and the idea of America. GOProud is an explicitly gay group that isn’t particularly focused on gay rights, and Coulter’s speech – full of conservative red meat, and only the occasional Judy Garland joke – reflected its focus. 


[Beaverhausen]

1. I don't understand anyone supporting a group that thinks of them as unequal at best...

...and sick/sinners at worst. It's really sad.

[Bluebear]

4. It takes a lot of looking the other way. Oh...you meant Republicans.

Never mind. ;)

[Fumesucker]

2. Chickens supporting Colonel Sanders..

Apparently keeping a few more percent of your income is worth aligning yourself with people who would see you dead and in hell.

I honestly don't get it.

[Canuckistanian]

3. They're gay, conservative and in serious denial

I wouldn't call it "pride".

[Bryn]

5. They're probably wealthy gays

I commented on one of Bill Maher's post on fb, there was a gay guy who said was himself wealthy, he went around slamming "White Liberals" because we wanted to let tax cuts for the rich expire. Called himself "conservative"

[Heidi]

6. Funny how they toss the word "freedom" around, annit. (nt)

[mzteris]

8. they're wealthy & "connected" enough that

they can do whatever they want and not give a rats ass about "discrimination".

[Selatius]

7. Perhaps they are only Republican because they are right wingers on economic issues? nt

[BrentWil]

9. You would think they would still be Dems..

I mean, the DLC isn't too far off from the GOP on economic issues. There is actually pretty big spectrum of views in the democratic party on economic issues.

[Selatius]

10. True. It's also why the Democrats appear weak or tepid.

Get a bunch of right wingers and left wingers in the same room to deal with things like health care reform, and you end up with no Public Option and a private insurance mandate because the rightists object to the public alternative.

[vi5]

11. Since they belong to a party that says......

...that they can't love and be passionate with who they want then I don't think it's out of bounds and is safe for me to say that they can go fuck themselves. I mean obviously if their party was in charge that would be about their only option anyway.

[Cirque du So-What]

12. As John Kenneth Galbraith points out:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

This obviously holds true regardless of sexual orientation. Perhaps we should face the fact that there are greedy, self-centered assholes among gays as well as among heterosexuals. Besides, I don't recall ever reading evidence that homosexuality automatically imbues an individual with altruistic tendencies. Perhaps we should stop being so surprised when some gays display sociopathic characteristics just like a certain segment of heterosexuals. I can accept that these individuals don't give a damn about the plight of others of the same sexual orientation...doesn't mean I understand, but I can accept it.

[AldebTX]

13. They Had Anne Coulter Speak

And she chastised them for wanting equal rights. Just can't understand the need to have
Your enemies "like" you.

[Nye Bevan]

14. Another reason for Obama to reverse his opposition to gay marriage

Why should gays vote Democratic when Barack Obama himself thinks they should not be allowed to marry?