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“The die is cast on this issue,” said Steve Schmidt, who advised the presidential campaigns of Senator John McCain and George W. Bush and has for years urged Republicans to accept same-sex marriage. “Why should we sign a suicide pact with the National Organization for Marriage?”<\/strong> Mr. Schmidt asked, saying the party should instead endorse the principles of federalism and let the states decide the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Depending on how you slice and dice the electorate, you can make the case that the gay vote was decisive in this election. So what NOM is asking the GOP to do\u2014double, triple, quadruple down on anti-gay hate\u2014really does amount to signing a political suicide pact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The homophobic pundits and leaders of the anti-gay industrial complex who are saying now that this election does not represent a sudden shift in people’s attitudes about same-sex marriage are right. \u00a0 There’s nothing sudden about the build up of pressure along a fault line either, just the release of it. \u00a0 The trend toward acceptance and equality has been obvious for decades now, and the haters have always known it. \u00a0 Witness the junk science industry they’ve been busy building since the Stonewall Riots and the removal of homosexuality as a psychiatric diagnosis. \u00a0 You don’t wage a bitter scorched earth war on the facts if you know the facts are on your side. \u00a0 The haters have always known that in the end all they had to win on was the passion of their own hate, and that eventually that would not be enough. \u00a0 And they have always known that marriage was the final threshold, and that it would be crossed when more heterosexuals then not would say to each other, and then at the polls, \u00a0 Actually, homosexuals do love<\/em>.<\/p>\n
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