Clinton did the same thing. He rode into the White House on the backs of gay voters to whom he promised the world, but only gave a vague “don’t ask don’t tell” compromise on gays in the military that was worse than if he had done nothing at all.

I was a die-hard, yellow-dog Democrat for over forty years. As a gay man, I was told time and again the same thing: that liberals were on my side, but now is not the time to seek civil equality. For forty years! The last straw was when a local Democratic Party organizer wrote a letter to the editor of my local paper which went something like this: “Kick up your hooves, Democrats! Now that those immoral gay people have been removed from our party platform, we might actually whoop Republican’s butts now.” I officially left the Democratic Party after reading this, and have been a voting independent for the last four years. I voted for Bob Barre in the last election.

I guess that’s why I continue to read SA’s commentaries. I think we both have been let down by our perspective ideological peers. And now that we are both on the outside looking in, we have the ability to see through the bs on both sides of the political aisle.

Politics as usual. What could be sadder and more disheartening than that?

Chill out, s’il vous plait. At least the gay folks I know (some of whom are close family members BTW and all gay from birth and not a degenerate among them, I might add) take the time to spell when they write. You need to slow down because your comment looks more like a LOL cat caption than a response, IMHO. ; )

You need to check out Soulforce. (www.soulforce.org) There *are* religious folks who love and accept gay folks because LOVE is THE Christian value if you are *really* talking about Jesus Christ and not some nominal fundamentalist bullcrap.