{"id":1130674,"date":"2021-12-18T13:59:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1130674"},"modified":"2021-12-18T13:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T18:59:10","slug":"williams-lgbtq-nation-essay-implies-you-aint-gay-if-you-dont-vote-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/williams-lgbtq-nation-essay-implies-you-aint-gay-if-you-dont-vote-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams: LGBTQ Nation Essay Implies \u2018You Ain\u2019t Gay if You Don\u2019t Vote Democrat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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<!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AA-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An essay in the LGBTQ Nation online magazine has hammered Republican members of their tribe, insisting that they vote \u201cagainst their own community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arguing for unthinking homogenization into a single voting bloc, an essay in the San Francisco-based news magazine calls the existence of LGBTQ Republicans \u201cone of the enduring mysteries in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In his December 17 essay titled \u201cWhy are some LGBTQ people Republicans?\u201d John Gallager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lgbtqnation.com\/2021\/12\/lgbtq-people-republicans-vote-community\/\">says<\/a> the GOP \u201ccaters to the religious right, which is working to roll back LGBTQ rights,\u201d and judges LGBT Republicans traitors to the cause.<\/p>\n<p>One problem is that \u201cgay and lesbian Republicans don\u2019t feel that their sexuality is that big a deal,\u201d Gallagher writes, citing a <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-some-lesbian-gay-and-bisexual-americans-are-loyal-to-the-gop\/\">study<\/a> by FiveThirtyEight which found that \u201cmost LGB Republicans see their sexuality as separate from \u2014 or secondary to \u2014 their political identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to gay and bisexual Democrats, who consider their sexual proclivities \u201ca very important aspect\u201d of their identity, a 2020 study from the Williams Institute found that \u201c54 percent of LGB Republicans said their sexual orientation was an \u2018insignificant\u2019 part of their identity,\u201d Gallagher writes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy sexual orientation being gay is just a tiny part of me and doesn\u2019t really affect where I stand politically,\u201d one respondent told FiveThirtyEight. \u201cI think the Democratic Party tends to pander too much to various groups, and I think we should look at people more as individuals than as part of a group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some LGBs are drawn to the Republican Party because of business and economic issues, Gallagher laments. \u201cBut as the party moves away from having any platform at all to simply become a venue for Donald Trump and his grievances, it\u2019s harder to justify support on policy grounds,\u201d he insists.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, FiveThirtyEight said that many of the LGB Republicans they talked to said that they felt \u201cpersonally welcomed as gay or lesbian in Republican circles, while they often felt ostracized as Republicans in LGBTQ circles,\u201d Gallagher notes, with no apparent sense of self-irony.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, what seems to bother Gallagher is that certain LGBTQ voters thoughtfully weigh a number of issues before casting their votes, instead of voting in lockstep \u201cthe way they are supposed to,\u201d an idea similar to Joe Biden\u2019s presumptuous and demeaning 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2020\/05\/22\/joe-biden-you-aint-black-if-you-dont-back-me-over-trump\/\">comment<\/a> that if you fail to support him \u201cyou ain\u2019t black.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would seem that according to a certain mindset, independent thinking is not a quality to&nbsp; encouraged, but a vice to root out.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essay in the LGBTQ Nation online magazine has hammered Republican members of their tribe, 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