The Gay Republican Oxymoron

Eric Alterman on Republicans and Gays:

"What the Santorum flap indicates is that the Republican leadership is willing to go on record likening the sexual preference of millions of Americans to criminal and consensually immoral behavior. This seems to me to be a fundamental issue, and not just one for gay people. Let’s not put too fine a point on it. Republicans are preaching intolerance and persecution. They are doing so at the highest levels of the party and with the power of the federal government behind them. They may not be throwing gays in jail, but they are encouraging all kinds of attacks, ostracism, and discrimination against gays as a matter of principle. How can anyone who believes in freedom of sexual choice, much less anyone who practices it, make common cause with these people? What issue could possibly be more important than the denial — nay, the criminalization — of one’s identity?"

Thus, a gay Republican is someone who basically supports intolerance of his/her own lifestyle.