Wonderful piece in the New York Post today. Reading how the GOP hopes to use fear of gays to rev up their base across the country really makes me feel ill. Money quote:
When it’s one of your first presidential elections – as it is for me – it’s no trivial matter that voting Republican means a vote for a party catering to the worst prejudices about our brothers, sisters, friends from high school, college roommates, co-workers, bosses, drinking buddies and the like.
I’m not sure I can do it. And, if it weren’t for the War on Terror, I know few for whom it would even be a question.
The fact is: the GOP is using an attack on members of their own families to get a few votes in rural parts of swing states. They’ve used race in the past to achieve this kind of effect. Now gays are the new blacks.
The Dish 