In your editorial regarding the Log Cabin Republicans, you say that “We can get behind our LGBT Republican brothers and sisters who support McCain so they can work for equality from within the party,” even though you refer to McCain as “an anti-gay presidential candidate.” You also seem to acknowledge the Republican Party’s stated intention to exclude gays from the military, deny us jobs and services of certain types and appoint even more judges who will refuse to acknowledge our equality.
Do you really think that the voice of gay Republicans in a McCain/Palin administration is going to outweigh the voice of the right wing, anti-gay, culture crusaders to whom the Republican Party has become so indebted? When Supreme Court justices are nominated by John McCain or Sarah Palin, do you think they will be guided by the advice of the gay Republicans? Do you believe that the Supreme Court case that so recently wiped away our status as felons (2003’s Lawrence v. Texas) is immune to being overturned if more judges like Antonin Scalia are put on the bench or that such a court will not find other ways to deny us basic rights? You apparently have no problem with the fact that before gay Republicans acquire this “strong voice making the case for gay rights to John McCain,” they will in fact be voting to put him and Sarah Palin in office.
Do you think it might just be possible, especially at a time when elections can turn on a relatively small number of votes, that our Republican brothers and sisters could do more for gay rights by voting for a Democrat for president?
