"Gay Republican" Becomes an Oxymoron

How could any gay person vote for a Republican?  I mean, look what just happened to this guy:

As the fallout over the resignation of Mitt Romney’s openly gay foreign policy adviser continues today, much of the commentary is centered on the question of whether Romney’s aides pushed Grenell out in response to the uproar among social conservatives over the appointment.
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“The Romney campaign should have spoken up publicly in defense of Rick against the attacks over the past two weeks,” GOProud’s executive director Jimmy LaSalvia said in an interview with me just now.

“This was an opportunity to send an important message that Mitt Romney wants everybody to get behind him and to support his camapign,” LaSalvia continued. “They let that opportunity pass.”

So the Romney campaign hired an openly gay man to advise on foreign policy issues, and the religious fundamentalist wing of the party took him out.  In the Republican coalition, there's just no place for openly gay people right now.

But what continues to strike me is that GOProud still exists.  I mean, who are these people?  I understand how hard it would be if you strongly believed in low tax rates on rich people but happened to be gay- neither party fits you very well.  But while you'd hate the economic policies of the Democrats, that still seems preferable to voting for a party that says repeatedly that it hates you.

On one hand, I think that if President Obama were stronger on gay issues he might have 100% of the gay vote, but on the other hand I can't imagine it really matters- any gay person who's still in the GOP is completely unhinged.