''I don't understand how a gay organization can continue to support a party that constantly demeans them. Please explain.''
From Michael Sokolove's "Can This Marriage Be Saved?":
For many years, the Log Cabin Republicans have known the particular torment of being aligned with a cause easily lampooned as ridiculous. You are a what? they are asked in various ways. A gay Republican? A gay conservative? What does that even mean? And by the way, don't you know that your so-called allies actually despise you? ''You're attacked in social settings,'' Patrick Guerriero, Log Cabin's executive director, told me. ''You lose dates. It's not easy.'' What is even more difficult, though, is to have your loyalty thrown back in your face by the very people with whom you have united -- and to arrive at that moment of truth when you must acknowledge that those who have confronted you, or snickered behind your back, may, in fact, have a point.