“But there’s nothing that makes me more angry than masked or unmasked homophobia. It’s deeply reactionary and immoral.]” I agree. But there should be room for both views in the party. How boring to be in a political party where everyone believes the exact same thing! We all live and work with different types of people all with different viewpoints and seem to do a pretty good job of getting along and working things out (at least for the most part…)I think different viewpoints provides a good balance.

And I think you have made a blanket statement about the Republican party being homophobic. Sure, there are a pretty good amount of Republicans that are homophobic, but I would venture to say that there are probably a pretty good amount of Democrats that are homophobic as well.

Some people in the Republican party have strong judeo christian beliefs, and the gay marriage debate is in direct conflict with their beliefs; but that certainly doesn’t mean they are homophobic or hate gay people. Personally, I think it should be decided by the states – and I bet most Republicans would feel the same.

It frightens me when the government tries to ammend the constitution. It needs to be left alone, and the judges need to do their job in interpreting the law and not writing law (we all remember the election of 2000, don’t we???)

Quite frankly, the whole gay marriage ammendment thing is a non issue to me and probably always will be, especially when we are in such serious times and our attentions need to be focused on fighting terrorism.