Like I said, legislative behavior matters in this discussion. While they often “sympathize” intellectually with gay rights issues in practice they rarely, if ever, challenge their party on these issues.

Back before WWII there were plenty of Jews in Germany that had “friends” that went on to support the Nazis.

Seriously Daniel, my Republican friends ARE a LOT nicer than any of my Democrat friends!!

And if yours aren’t, your crowd is much too narrow. You should spread yourself out a bit more and seek more diversity than your own current set of clones!

For example, a lot of British Tory politicians have become gay-friendly (including party leader David Cameron) or come out as openly gay (Alan Duncan, Nick Herbert) in recent years. Brit gays thus now have the option of voting based on issues besides gay rights.

However, Meghan is still very much a minority among Republicans, and her views are substantially to the Left of her own father. Keep in mind that McCain supported Proposition 8, even though he hypocritically said that he believed that the issue should be “left to the states” and he himself is not from California. So clearly he was speaking out of both sides of his mouth on that one.

In a way, Meghan could even be problematic for us, because she can help create the impression that the GOP is more moderate than it really is. Indeed, she herself has been the target of Right-wing fembots Ann Coulter and Laura Ingham, who don’t tolerate any whiff of liberalism in their party!

But someone who doesn’t listen to Laura or Ann but sees Meghan on Larry King might think that Republicans are nicer than their legislative behaviors suggest.