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Can you be republican and gay?

Can you be republican and gay?

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As for this thread, of course you can be Republican and gay..

Look at cmsMaster..

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Originally posted by invigorate
I read with interest an article on Larry Craig's resignation. It struck me that Republicans are not very gay friendly.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2160810,00.html

I wondered if he had procured straight sex whether he would be treated the same?

Is it possible to be gay and republican in todays US?
Gay? Happy-go-lucky?

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Ummmm.. no.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
While I did enjoy jabbing the Republicans, I posted that list because this question was asked:

I wondered if he had procured straight sex whether he would be treated the same?

This way one can look up the incidences that were gay vs those that were straight and compare the penalties the politicians in question suffered.
I still don't believe it. I think every last Republican is straight!! Its only when people become gay that they decide to change parties. Heretic!!!

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Of course you can be gay and Republican, however, your chances of winning public office as an openly gay candidate are very slim. The conflict comes over the Republican values of religious faith and support for traditional families.

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Originally posted by invigorate
...I wondered if he had procured straight sex whether he would be treated the same?

Is it possible to be gay and republican in todays US?
If Sen. Craig were a Democrat, there probably would have been no mention of it in the mainstream media and even if there were, he certainly would not have been stripped of his chairs, nor would he have been forced to resign.

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Originally posted by kirksey957
Leave it to the Bard to sum up the problem with the Republicans.

"My good brother, do not as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; whiles , like a puff'd and reckless libertine, himself the primrose path of dalliance trends, and recks not his own rede (follows not his own counsel).

Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 1, sc 3
Sen. Craig's degeneracy is not a problem with the Republicans since they stripped him of his chairs and forced him to resign as soon as the facts came to light. My question is: Why hasn't anyone stripped the blimp from Mass., I mean Sen. Edward Kennedy, of his chairs and forced him to resign?

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Of course you can be gay and Republican, however, your chances of winning public office as an openly gay candidate are very slim. The conflict comes over the Republican values of religious faith and support for traditional families.
As someone who has tended to vote Republican and consider myself a person of "faith", I would be more impressed with them if they had more support for untraditional families.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
If Sen. Craig were a Democrat, there probably would have been no mention of it in the mainstream media and even if there were, he certainly would not have been stripped of his chairs, nor would he have been forced to resign.
That's straight BS. (No pun intended 🙂 )

The media loves sex scandals.

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Originally posted by invigorate
I read with interest an article on Larry Craig's resignation. It struck me that Republicans are not very gay friendly.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2160810,00.html

I wondered if he had procured straight sex whether he would be treated the same?

Is it possible to be gay and republican in todays US?
all republican are gay. so yes it is.

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Originally posted by crazyfox
all republican are gay. so yes it is.
Are you saying that being gay is bad?