Reply #23: Sickening. Anyone really surprised? Buehler? Buehler?

[FedUp_Queer]

This really takes me back. Yes, I was a GOPer at one time, lo, these many moons ago. Then I came out of the closet. For the longest time, I tried to convince myself that Republicans weren't REALLY anti-gay. I kept hearing about "libertarianism." I kept hearing about "socially liberal, fiscally conservative." I kept hearing things like: "My liberal friends have criticized me more for being Republican than any Republican did for me being gay." Remember it was a REPUBLICAN who freed the slaves. It was the DEMOCRATS who filibustered the civil rights bills in congress. All true, but then I realized: that was then, this is now.

I tried very hard. Coming out of the closet has a way doing several things. First, not only do you reveal to the world you're gay, but metaphorically, just as being in a closet is dark and you can't see anything, coming out of a closet is light...so the light began shining in my eyes. I began to see the hogwash of what I was saying. I began to see that, no, Republicans really don't like gay people. After all, it was they who were telling me how sick I was and telling people that "this is the way 'their' lifestyle" is. And what did that lifestyle include? Well, of course, we GLBT people were child molesters; we were trying to "infiltrate" the schools to convert kids because, after all, we couldn't reproduce. The GOP's ire went way further than "personal feelings" these things were in their platform...and it just kept getting worse.

There comes a point when you have to just look at the facts and see what's going on. The FACT is the GOP of right now (and since 1964) is a cauldron of bigoted, anti-gay nut balls...WHO DON'T LIKE GAY PEOPLE. So, GOProd and Log Cabin and the Liberty Caucus, all these silly groups of delusional people who continue to try and lie to themselves as I did, are fooling themselves. More than just GLBT people, Repuglicans don't like anyone who isn't a rich, white, protestant man, and they only tolerate rich, white, protestant women. The only question to ask these groups is this: what the hell is it going to take for you to realize THEY DON'T LIKE YOU. THEY WILL NEVER LIKE YOU. THEY WANT TO SEE YOU GONE, OUT OF THEIR SIGHT OR, IF POSSIBLE, DEAD.