I never looked at it that way before. But as far as being fiscally liberal, I don't think we appreciate our government doubling the debt.
And no one appreciated Bush turning the surplus into a deficit.
But they sure didn't mind enough to make it stop. As long as Bush wasn't raising taxes to pay for Iraq, the American people didn't mind how much it was costing or how much we were borrowing from China.
And gay's are the last people to be picked on. We went through this shit in the 1960's with blacks and people have come a long way since then. Now a days it is not a big deal to bring a black date home if you are white. My parents are in their 60's and they freaked out when I went out with a black girl. So society is becoming more and more acceptable of gays too. They just need to know some gays to realize they deserve equal rights. Same with race. Most of my white racist friends didn't even know any black people.
It is a lot harder to discriminate against a group of people when you know them.
It's why I have said in all my posts that education is the key to understanding. When people understand one another then your correct it is harder to discriminate. While I won't turn this into a thread based on gay rights, I will say this, that for anyone that advocates rights that they perceive to be not available to them and then by way of protest take rights from others is not a very good way to win people to your cause. Some examples would be invading churches, *Freedom of Religion*, knocking crosses out of the hands of elderly women *the right to peacefully assemble*, and protesting a legitimate vote, *the right to vote*. Why I express this sealy is that it's very clear that some in the gay community wish to supplant the same rights from others they are claiming to be denied and in the end this is not how you educate people and win them over.