How The Media Uses Gay Issues To Hurt Democrats

Is this the face of homosexuality in America? As far as the mainstream press is concerned, yes. At gay rallies, CNN is not going to show Rachel Maddow speaking. They will thow this man on the left. I found this image as the face for a gay pride parade. Every election year, we see more and more gay people being married and the issue gets hotter and hotter as elections approach. There is a problem with this.

First, before I'm hammered with accusations of intolerance, I am for gay marriage, gay rights as well as hate crime legislation. The problem is this: We Democrats and liberals are already for gay marriage, and pushing the issue only motivates the other side.

Now that I'm getting older, I recognize this pattern. Maybe gay couples are always getting licences in jurisdictions where it's illegal, but it seems as if the news waits until near the election to show it, and it freaks out the religious right as well as the silent non-religious bigoted majority. What happens then is that we come out in our regular numbers but they come out in record numbers because they think they are saving the world when they vote.

So what am I saying? Go back in the closet? No. I'm saying that we should try our best not to motivate republicans who might not otherwise vote. Remember, if the Gay Pride parade is ten miles long, CNN will only show the half naked weirdos trailing at the end of the parade, and those people motivate republicans. And even though weddings are normally innocuous events, illegal weddings still freak out the conservative, and worse, motivate them. I fully understand that the people we see on the news are the minority of gays in America, and the news does seek out the weird and inflammatory, but I feel that on election years, we should try our best to minimize undesired news.

Just trying to win one for a change. What do you think?