>AC of C-Punch, now twice in one week, reminds us who forced the
>dispossessed of Ohio and elsewhere to vote against their economic
>interests in favor of Hetero-Jesus:
>
>"The Democrats spent the year wasting money and passion attacking
>Ralph Nader whose early predictions of his ultimate drawing power at
>the polls turned out to be on the money. If the Democrats had wanted
>to identify a serious saboteur of their chances they should have
>homed in on Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco whose okay to gay
>marriage saw all those same sex couples on the steps of City Hall
>embracing, on every front page and nightly news in America. Ohio had
>its proposition banning gay marriage and the drive to put it on the
>ballot and push it to victory brought the Christians out in their
>hundreds of thousands, marching to the polls across the rubble of
>their state's economy."
>
>I asked earlier (got no response) and I ask again -- what the fuck is this?
A nice excuse to bash fags under the guise of populism?
The data isn't there to support the argument that a wave of anti-gay sentiment brought a surge in Bush's support. It's always there, it's a major part of the electorate, but it wasn't the decisive factor in explaining this year's results.
Doug