Now, will the liberals cut the bullshit about the republicans being racist/homophobic/etc, and finally start to come up with real arguments?
It's not just liberals that think Republicans are homophobic, its gay people and Republicans too. Many in the party are proudly so. There's a reason their support from there lgbt population is ~0% (likewise with black, Hispanic, and Asian people as well).
And looking at say Trump's website -- https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions -- none of this is even mentioned. Sure, maybe in some outlier areas, mumbling something about overturning nationwide gay marriage will get you a few votes.
But I think that the average republican couldn't care less, and it's a shame the relatively minor outliers keep on being brought up, ruining any interesting discussion in the process.
[1] - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-gaymarriage-i...
To expand a bit on the age thing (and I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this again): for the older generation the default position was to be against gay marriage. Today, the default position is to be for it.
Does that mean today's generation is superior? Probably not, as I would guess most people haven't actually read the science/whatever on their own. They just parrot back the opinion of their social circle, unless it's an issue they actually care passionately about (then they might actually research it). Exactly like the older generation.
So basically... there's a difference in the initial conditions. Does it really matter? Would you be any different if brought up under the old conditions? Does whether you were told gay marriage is good or bad influence your ability to come up with a good economic policy?
I find it a little silly to have to wait for the older generations to die out so the percentage drops to a prettier level before we can have debates again.
It's 2016 and they just had one guy say he's proud to be gay.
This is progress. It's still a long way from good enough.
If the Republican Party wants us to believe that they're pro-LGBT now, let them prove it with legislation, not just cheers. I'll believe it once I see the majority of Republican lawmakers actively promoting full equality under the law for gay and trans people, not before.
Therefore, this will naturally cease to be a problem as the old generations die out, and we're already seeing signs of it.
One would hope that we can thus move on and start discussing more interesting things (college republican/democrat debates, where you are automatically a monster if republican, I'm looking at you).
I want my rights now.
For example, gay marriage is not "equality under law", as there are still plenty of prohibitions to marriage - for example, incestuous or polygamous relationships are prohibited from marriages in many a state, which means supporting gay marriage does not support "equality under law", but extending the privilege of marriage to a wider group.
this is the current candidate for VP. but yeah, he looooves gay people, mhm.