Why would any gay person be a GOPologist?

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

Can someone come up with an explanation:

I don't understand why anyone who is gay would want to be a GOPer. This is the party that hates gays, isn't it? The only comparison I can think of is a Jewish person (like me) joining the Nazis.

With people like Dobson, Fallwell, Robertson among others identifying themselves so closely to the GOP, why would any person who is gay willingly be part of it?

[Oceansaway]

1. .

shit for brains....:shrug:

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

2. I guess....

It still baffles me....

[MadMaddie]

3. The same reason an African American would be a Republican...

Self Loathing......thinking if they are a part of the Repugs they are somebody.....they continue to get kicked in the teeth over and over again...the House Slaves....

[BOSSHOG]

6. I recall an elderly black man (can't recall his name)

saying blacks voting for republicans is like chickens voting for Colonel Sanders. Right to the point.

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

8. That was J.C. Watts' father

If memory serves me correctly.

[BOSSHOG]

4. I believe economic issues might be

a part of the allure of the gop to some. Gays who are well off may think they are better off economically with republicans and will tolerate the intolerable of the gop.

[Wapsie B]

5. The best answer I can think of

is that they would like to see the party go back to its more Libertarian origins, get government out of people's lives and all that. But they're deluding themselves if they believe that's gonna happen anytime soon.

[cnlst8]

7. b/c your Dad is the evil vice-president. ;p

i kid. i kid.

[nealmhughes]

9. Several possibilities; self-loathing, masochists, Ayn Rand on the brain,

greed, insanity, or else just pure dee old money grubbers with a suit fetish.

[DeeDeeNY]

10. Because they have deep and unresolved problems.

You're right with your analogy. I know there are
"self-hating Jews" around. I can't figure it out.
I've given up trying to understand people.

[MADem]

11. Money. Power. Influence. HUBRIS....and the most damning of these is

HUBRIS.

A perfect example is ANDREW SULLIVAN. He actually thinks that if he keeps flapping his gums often enough, the Catholic church will come to their senses and not hate him because of his orientation, and that (if only enough of those 'dreadful' gays--read, the ones that you don't need any gaydar to figure out--would simply act more 'normal') one day the GOP won't mind them so much either....but of course, they have to start "behaving" and not "acting gay." Oh, and those "rough looking" lesbians? If they'd just put on dresses and lipstick, and maybe some high heels, why, they'd ADVANCE the CAUSE.

Do I need to deploy that :sarcasm: thing for the irony-challenged?

It's a form of self-loathing, I believe. My former neighbor (gay) was the one who first advanced this theory to me, and I'm not explaining it as well as he can, but hopefully you get the drift. It's a form of "If I just act like THEM, and I'm GOOD in public, then maybe they will love me."

[KarenS]

12. Personally, I don't understand why Women or folks that make

minimum wage would vote Republican either,,,,

GOP policies benefit rich white men.

[YOY]

13. Gay AND Republican?

Isn't that kind of like wearing white shoes after labor day?

[BoneDaddy]

14. They are sado-masochistic?

[Rocknrule]

15. Yea, I can't understand why Fred Phelps isn't a Republican

They have the exact same view of gays (i.e. scum of the earth)

[atommom]

16. I know a gay man who is a Republican and a Catholic.

It just seems like masochism to me. :shrug: