"Individuals can make their own choices about how they choose to live." So, concludes Star. Hypocritically, this doesn't apply to those ever increasing individuals who choose to not condemn gays, their lifestyle or desires and rights to be legally married just as any straight couple. When will she and the rest of you anti-gay homophobes and religious zealots realize that in time you will all be dead and the issue of gay marriage buried in the history books, just like slavery, women's suffrage and inter-racial marriage? Whether you think all these sea-changes are unrelated or not is irrelevant as these changes inevitably came about irreversably. The sooner you get over you anger and pain, the easier it will be on your souls.

Never cared to be hip. Just a guy who will criticize the GOP until they figure out how to win elections the right way. Of course, the feeding ground on this particular website is so ripe for doing just that. Someday you will figure out that it has always been the content of the message that matters, not who delivers it or how they do so.

I could care less if they are or are not, I am not a Democrat. If you want to have Latinos and women and the young vote for your candidates, you have to sell them something that appeals to them. They are buying your respresentation. Not the other way around. Sadly for the GOP, they haven't figured that out yet.

As any truly objective Independent could have told all you die-hard conservatives, it isn't how you sell your policies and ideas, it's what you are selling. The reason Independents exist in the first place, and are now the fastest growing political group, is that they can't stomach all of what either party believes obdurately. Women are no different. They DON'T what to hear you ant-choice opinions or that the party of "small gov't" is actually going to criminalize exercising your right to control your own reproductive right. Calling Planned Parenthood a "murder factory" was stupid. Tell me how THAT helped you cause with women in general! And if you can't continue my argument to non-white concerns, you surely deserve your pain today.

I vote for the socially liberal conservative all the time. Unfortunately, few exist so I find myself voting with liberals and know that there are enough conservatives and GOP moderates to balance out the idiot Left. It's just that the inane Left is countered balanced by the Angry Right, almost all of whom are avowed social conservatives who I dislike. Nothing spineless about that. Just strategic since once social conservatism is exercised from the GOP, some serious business can move the country to the safe middle where it belongs.

Well, I choose to be hetrosexual because that's where my heart and loins led me. I would obviously conclude, therefore, and consistent with your "scientitic reasoning" that this is no different for gay people. But what is different for gay people is that you and your kind consider them perverse and not appropriate human behavoir. Since that is now a near minority opinion, and will certainly grow as such in time as you and your kind die off, I see no idiocy to anything about my comments or thoughts. Your the one with issue with gays and their march for equality and freedom. Not me. And not much else needs to be said here.

Dude, I'll submit to any criticism you want. I just don't have to agree to it nor do you to mine. But this website is so replete with easy pickings when it comes to myopic thinking, unapologetic religious dogma, almost invaribly couched in fundamental Christian thinking that is clearly not shared universallly across the country. Most Independents I know lament the fact that the GOP has been co-opted by the religious right that is renders their faith in our political system highly suspect, not unlike the failure of the Left to repel the union or environmental extremists. Fortunately, my group is faster growing than yours or the Left's. And that is what is really going to save this country, not your idea of constitutional revisitation.

One idiocy of your comment is that you presume that gay people actually choose their preference much like yourself, and since there is not gene yet identified to isolate your hereditary sexuality, there isn't yet the same on the other side. Another is that the March of time I was referring is clearly identified in our social mores and constructs from when women were once themselves considered chattle to the "moral depravity" of laws against interracial marriage. That fact that your head is so far up your b*t t about "your definition" of traditional values that you can't see that is not surprising. Lastly, I am neither an aethist or a Muslim and I believe anyone can believe whatever they want so long as it doesn't interfere with my life.

Holding ground you thought you had a right to? Are you kidding me! Who has a right to prevent the march of time, the on-going, growing, inevitable acceptance of the fact of hereditary homosexuality and the undeniable right of gay people to have the same civil, federal and societal rights as everyone else? Certainly, not the religiously intolerant, holier-than-thou American Taliban who can't accept that their damn agenda isn't the majority or moral. Yes, Independents like me would certainly give more $ and support more of the GOP if the party and its extremist elements learned to COMPLETELY separate church and state. Until then, the GOP will always be the minority party in this great, free, live-and-let-live country of ours.

Of course there is no "official" war on women, just like there is no "official" liberal war on the Constitution. But it sure makes for good press, if you ask me. There is a war on a woman's right have control over her reproductive rights which very "officially" in the GOP platform, in the hearts of ever die-hard religious conservative and certainly in Todd Akin's idiotic mind. (The same goes for the war on gay marriage by all the same, but that's for another day.) All you conservatives, most of whom are reading this and likely male, can label feminists any ugly thing you want. In the end, their goals are free-choice, equal pay and general respect all perfectly respectable and fair. How they get there is not as important.