07-04-2015, 07:32 AM
(07-04-2015, 04:14 AM)DeeBye Wrote: I'm happy that this isn't really a thing in Canada. I wouldn't want to choose who I vote for based purely on their views of gay marriage. There are way more important things.
Well, it's nice of you to trivialize the decision making process, but it does tend to be difficult to support candidates that use your demographic as a boogeyman even if you do happen to agree with them on other issues. If you don't see that, change the dialogue from sexual orientation to race and see if that clicks with you. Would you find it easy to support a politician that was openly racist? "The races just ought not mix." sounds backwards and damages credibility. It's not so much that this one issue is the end all, but being against it is a red flag. Americans more and more tend to vote for the lesser of two evils, I think, instead of for candidates they particularly like.
-Lem