Can you be a Republican and a homosexual? Bruce Carroll and Dan Blatt, who contribute to the blog GayPatriot, would say, "Yes", and I would agree. Now, I believe that homosexual acts are a sin, I believe the Bible says this, and while I know that not everyone necessarily agrees with that assessment, I do. Does that mean, ergo, that I hate Bruce and Dan? No, it does not, and I do not. <\/p>\n
But what about Republicans in general? We all know what Democrats think of social conservatives, so you’d think that venom against the GayPatriot blog would come mostly from the Right.<\/p>\n
You couldn’t possibly be more wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Something just occurred to me as I was going through the comments in our spam filter. Oftentimes, I find \u201chate\u201d comments, ad hominem<\/em> attacks on us, trapped amidst the sex ads. To be sure I also find legitimate commentary from critics as well as supporters in that file.*<\/p>\n By a margin of at least 19-1, those hate comments come from angry leftists calling us \u201cself-hating,\u201d delusional or whatnot, mean-spirited attacks on us, our party, its leaders or gay Republicans in general. To be sure, occasionally, I have found mean-spirited missives from anti-gay social conservatives (the 1 (or smaller) in the ratio above).<\/p>\n And that\u2019s what struck me. We get linked far more often by conservative sites (as we did from Instapundit today<\/a>) than we do by gay (or liberal) ones. And yet we get more hate comments from the left, particularly the gay left, a left which constantly derides Republican and their social conservative allies as \u201chaters.\u201d Indeed, some of them call the GOP the \u201cParty of Hate.\u201d<\/p>\n If conservatives were truly the part of hate, shouldn\u2019t we then get more hate comments from anti-gay social conservatives.<\/p>\n But, maybe they\u2019re just not as mean-spirited as the left contends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n