A Stitch in Haste

To review:

--Gay Voting 101 is that all gay Republicans are, by definition, self-loathing.

--Gay Voting 102 is that gay Democrats aren't much better, especially those who support Hillary Clinton, an unindicted co-conspirator in her pervert husband's betrayal of gays not once but twice (or was it thrice?).

--Gay Voting 201 is that you don't have to belong to a party to vote for its nominee:

[Noel] Freeman had told the national Log Cabin Republicans that he would be stepping down from his position following the Texas primary.
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As president of Houston's Log Cabin group since August 2006, Freeman had been struggling with the idea of changing parties.

"I've thought long and hard about becoming a Democrat," Freeman said. "I believe that of all the candidates out there, Barack Obama is the one candidate who is most sincerely interested in healing some of the partisan damage that has been caused to our nation over the past 12-16 years."

Notice how Freeman doesn't say he thought about leaving the Republican Party. He instead says that he thought about becoming a Democrat. Apparently the notion of just becoming an independent -- and thereby acknowledging openly and notoriously that neither national party has done anything substantive for gays recently and that neither appears likely to do so anytime soon -- either never occurred to him or made him recoil in horror.

Whichever is the case, how unfortunate.

The best way to combat the inadequacies of the two-party system is by not being a part of it. Is "voting in a primary" really worth selling your soul?

On the other hand, I'll give Freeman credit for this much:

"I haven't decided (what I will do) but I won't vote for Hillary Clinton," said Freeman[.]

I guess even a broken activist is right twice a day.