Christians should be free to practice their faith and gay people should be free to define their own relationships free of state interference.

I have long believed that the Republican Party is better for gay people than the Democratic provided it stay true to its principles. The Democrats (and others on the left) would have us believe we need the state to promote social change. Republicans believe that the state should just get out of the way so as not to prevent social change from happening organically.

In a column in the Wall Street Journal, Jamie Kirchick writes that gay-bashing was “[url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122091977807312715.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries]absent from th...

Christians should be free to practice their faith and gay people should be free to define their own relationships free of state interference.

I have long believed that the Republican Party is better for gay people than the Democratic provided it stay true to its principles. The Democrats (and others on the left) would have us believe we need the state to promote social change. Republicans believe that the state should just get out of the way so as not to prevent social change from happening organically.

In a column in the Wall Street Journal, Jamie Kirchick writes that gay-bashing was “absent from the Republican gabfest," (RNC) "that gays were not part of the agenda this year.” Kirchick said the GOP should kiss gay-bashing goodbye. And I agree.

The only speaker to make mention of them was the former Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee, and he did so only tangentially, stating that Mr. McCain “doesn’t want to change the very definition of marriage from what it has always meant throughout recorded human history.” (The same, of course, could be said of the supposedly gay-friendly Barack Obama, who also opposes marriage equality for gay couples).

But the President calls himself a “fierce advocate for gay and lesbian Americans” and he’s a Democrat so gay activists and bloggers swoon at the mere mention of his name. And yet he holds the exact stand on gay marriage which has made Carrie Prejean the latest target of the politically correct. She just didn’t learn that what she needs do to avoid such calumny is declare herself a Democrat, committed to social justice and full equality (whatever that latter expression means).