How many people interested in politics really think about gays that often?

Gay marriage is the dish du jour, with politicians eager to pander to that voting demographic.

That's the nature of politicians - they do things for the wrong reasons but you are right, the party for Women's Rights (tongue in cheek) and which loves Obamacare, just doesn't understand what coverage women won't have.

Politicians should care about all people, and not just staying in their cushy jobs with Cadillac health plans.

Gay marriage isn't an issue of governance. In fact, it is not a political issue at all.

The issue at hand is reproaching the intrusion of government onto a sacred and private contract between heterosexuals or homosexuals. Marriage contracts should be handled identical to business contracts. Disputes can be handled by the judicial branch just like private contracts are disputed but neither legislative nor executive branches have any input into the validity, meaning, or terms of the contract.

The societies of Western Christendom have repressed & persecuted gay people pretty brutally for maybe 1,500 years, as I understand it.

Gay people have been oppressed, sometimes killed, and certainly forced to live an underground sexual existence in the West -- and I guess in Muslim countries too -- since the Emperor Justinian changed the laws of the Eastern Roman Empire in the 6th century.

I don't blame gay people for wanting to change that -- and as a more or less straight person with gay friends & coworkers, I think it really SHOULD change. It must.

OTOH, I think "gay rights" will turn out to be a fairly mainstream American political cause in the long run -- just a footnote to the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. In the long run, I think smart Republicans will be just as much in favor of gay rights as the libertarians and the liberals.

As a democratic socialist, I don't focus too much attention on the struggle for gay rights, although I feel morally & politically obliged to support it.

I hope that the Republican and Democratic elites will soon win over their culturally conservative followers to make gay rights the law of the land -- so that leftists like me can focus on issues like poverty & inequality & the exploitation of labor, which are harder to address w/o challenging the existence of capitalism.

The biggest issue to me is the economy, but if I only cared about the most important issue at a time, then if the government decided to reinstitute slavery, I'd be consigned to sit back and do nothing because I'm too busy lamenting about the state of the economy.

Also, AIDS is a problem that does not only include gays. Your straightness isn't some kind of magical immunization shot, kid.

Just 50 years ago. Race was a big problem that Southern Conservative Democrats had problems with.

Just 100 years ago. Women Rights was a big problem as well.

I read your question....

To me the economy is more of a bigger issue.

"It seems that someone around here only cares about gays with AIDS and no one else.

Do you?"

This question is asinine. Are you implying all homosexuals have AIDS?

I believe that all liberals males think often of other gay men. They dream of the day when they go to take a dump that the rest of us will regard it as a birth!

Hey - equal rights, right!

When you are amongst other gay men that have to take a dump, you are essentially at a gay baby shower.

I am now supporting it just to get more votes in 2016.

Why would I give something that has no relevance to me, One moments thought.

Rarely.

...only when it's brought up by militant homosexuals and liberals trying to attack conservatives or Christians as being homophobic.