With Bush now trailing Democrats on national security, gay "hate and bait" is the only political weapon the GOP will have left in their arsenal entering the 2006 elections. They could save themselves, the country, and a lot of gay people a lot of pain and suffering if only they would heed the above advice and let it go.

True enough, in the short-term, gay "hate and bait" might score an election or two in the country's most conservative regions. Within the next generation, this gay hate thing isn't going to fly and the GOP will be forced to spend another 40 years trying to move beyond their current position. Besides, every human rights issue started this way, and the Right eventually lost those battles.