A vast majority of LGBT people vote Democratic in elections, and that led GayPatiotWest (a gay Republican blogger) to ask why gay people aren't more receptive to conservatism. He said that it's a "political conformity" brought on by "time socializing with their gay peers." I beg to differ.
Today's a perfect day to compare and contrast liberals and conservatives when it comes to their views on LGBT people. What follows are initial reactions from Free Republic and Daily Kos commenters. No, marriage isn't the end-all-be-all litmus test, and those two sites, while popular on either side of the aisle, don't encompass every political persuasion. But it's something.
From a Freeper:
Hey wasn't Iowa ....BO's claim to fame !!
Can we scratch Iowa off the map ??
From a Kossack:
Obama...now this!
My 66-year-old Iowa dad, a Democrat who tends to the conservative side occasionally, called me practically in tears this a.m. He is just so proud of his state...and so am I. Go Hawks!
Freeper:
Iowa
Iowa?
IOWA?
This is fully expected in the nutbar places like New England and California. But Iowa? This is about as disturbing a news article as I could have ever imagined.
Kossack:
WHOOOOOEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
IOWA ROCKS!!!!!!!!
Freeper:
Prop 8...make it a constitutional change and the black robes can't be run by the lavender mafia.
Kossack:
Iowa selects judges by merit, using a modified so-called Missouri plan. No campaigning, no campaign contributions allowed. Judges appointed from among nominees selected by commissions, half lawyers and half nonlawyers, stand for retention at general elections.
The merit selection of judges, with accountability to voters but without the partisanship in some state elections, accounts for the high quality of the Iowa judiciary.
Freeper:
We are fools if we think that God's judgment will not come to this land. Fools.
Kossack:
Please explain again... (10+ / 0-)
...why my 30+ year old "traditional" marriage is threatened by gay marriage?
Freeper:
This is scary. Unlike Massachusetts, Iowa is an agricultural breadbasket. Watch crop yields plumett now. God takes His revenge in many ways. Just ask those people burned out of their homes (or had their crops dry up from drought) in California. Russia's crop yields plummeted too, once she became an atheistic nation in 1922.
Kossack:
Since ND doesn't have marriage equality we may assume God's punishing them until they please Her by changing that.
Freeper:
Oedipus can now marry his mommy.
Kossack:
But won't this tarnish ...
... the holy sanctity of Rush Limbaugh's three failed marriages?
Freeper:
-- I'm not saying that it is time to get out the guns,--
If now is not the time, that time will soon be at hand
Kossack:
so PROUD to be from Iowa today!!!! Let the wedding bells start a-ringing!!!! A great, historic day in Des Moines! Congratulations!
Freeper:
"I have no problems with gays getting married. They just have to marry someone of the opposite sex, just like normal people. No special privileges for them!"
True. They can even have a 100% gay marriage...a queer can marry a carpet muncher!
Kossack:
Unanimous?!?!
The other state rulings on this have all been close split decisions. Not only that, but the ruling says that only marriage will do, that civil unions won't cut it. This is an earthquake of a ruling.
Freeper:
This also increases the likelihood that the US will be a target of Muslim terrorism. The Muslims (correctly) see homosexuality as an abomination. They won't take kindly to rulings like this.
Kossack:
Lookout... if there's a natural disaster in the next week, some whackjob Fundie will blame it on gays and the Iowa Supreme Court.
Freeper:
I am beginning to believe that there is no silent majority. The queers and the unemployed are running the country. I am a slave, 2/3rds of my taxes go into the pocket of someone else.
Kossack:
where's the dissenting opinion?
haha, there wasn't one :)
Freeper:
they said the constitution allows sodomy and despite the dicta, that case is being used to allow homosexual based marriage.
IOW marrigage based on popping an orgasm rather than benefit to society.
Kossack:
Well, the good news is that it will be delayed...
...so, in three years, when people realize that Iowa hasn't been destroyed, they will be more open to the idea...
Freeper:
And yes, the regular manner in which one or two non-elected "judges" ("czars"?) trump the will of the people (shown via voting results) as well as ursurp legislative powers that do not belong to the judiciary show the USA is much more the fascist dictatorship than the kind of govt of the people it was founded to be.
We could call the future of the USA the "4th Reich" or some such...USSA?
Kossack:
I'm too happy to think! (104+ / 0-)
This Iowan couldn't be more proud of her state this morning!
Freeper:
Regarding the Soviet Unions agricultural failures after it became an atheistic state, I don't think I need to post a chart. That's common knowledge. Before 1922 the (then) Russian Empire was exporting food. After 1922, when the atheists took over and attacked religion, ag yields plunged. I remember back in the 1970s the US selling the USSR huge amounts of grain.
Kossack:
Iowa-The state that brought you a good start towards President Barack Obama and now Marriage Equality.
(The Free Republic article used is here, and the Daily Kos diary is here.)
I don't think it's too hard to see why LGBT people in general steer left when it comes to voting. There's a noticeable difference between the two parties, and until the Republicans resolve that, LGBT people are going to rest where they are: about 3-1 Democratic in presidential elections.
I posted this on my lgbt blog just now, and I thought I'd cross-post it here because, even though I diary and comment a lot less now than I used to, I still read what you all have to say and I'm always learning cool things on this site. Thanks!