Gay republicans tend to fall into two camps poor and stupid or rich and callous. Neither set are people I care to be with. The last one I met, with body piercings and heavy makeup no less, told me he had major reservations regarding Obama so he would be voting for McCain this fall. The reason, “McCain would be more likely to respect peoples individuality.”

The gay Rethug I met prior to that stated people unfortunate enough to contract a deadly illness while uninsured, (as in just the few weeks or months while between jobs) are better off to society dead than being covered by government provided health care. This just after I told him I had been uninsured for a few months while being between jobs.

Then these guys wonder why they can’t get laid.

Go figure.

My guess is that the more motivated a person is to make money to the exclusion of other motivations, the easier it is to ignore the discrepancies in the Republican Party.

I have read the statements of transgender business owners that want to have the right to hire and fire who they want and believing that any profit motivated business owner would think the same way and hire the best candidate for the job, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. They do not support ENDA.

They either have not been in a business where people are treated as commodities, or do not understand the the job applicant pool is so large that people will hire and fire people for any reason regardless of job skills because there is always someone else out there willing to do that job, be it from a foreign country.

The Log Cabin Republican probably falls into the highly business profit oriented thinking. They might even be related to thinking like used car sales managers.

If you read the Republivcan Core values, it is so full of conflicting ideals, and with the misrepresentation of "Personal Responsibility" to mean do good (it really means do anything you want, just admit it when you are caught). With a core value to do whatever you want for money (supporting less government laws i.e. less restrictions against cheating other people out of money or jobs) any GLBT business owner that is highly motivated by the almighty dollar can easily fit the ideals of a Log Cabin Republican.

It is those that believe in truth and honesty and treating all people the same (and yes being transgender, I honestly thought that as I was growing up that when I finally found a girlfriend, and then a wife, I would be cured of being transgender. I thought my being ignored by women was the cause of being transgender. Hence I did not tell my wife because it was going away) that find LCPs an anathema. And yes, you may have trouble living up to the ideals, but you still try to reach those ideals. But those ideals are not part of the Republican Core values.

Reading the history of the Republican Party, abolishment of slavery was not about equal rights, it was about the sin of slavery.

So here you have the basis of a GLBT that can be a Log Cabin Republican, someone that is driven by the doller and is willing to be accountable for any actions they may do, either good or bad, just willing to accept accolades or blame. If it hurts, GLBT's, who cares, money and business is the core, and since they can get away with limited ethics, can siddle up with staunch Christians, because they are more diven by business than a moral code.

Deanna