The G.O.P.’s Gay Pretzels

O: 2016 Presidential Candidates

FROM: The Image Rehabilitation Subcommittee of the R.N.C.

RE: Our big, fat gay predicament

Dear Gentlemen and Carly Fiorina,

No matter how much we’d like the ceaseless chatter about gay marriage to go away, it won’t, not with the Supreme Court about to hear another round of arguments on the issue and not with this inextinguishable debate over “religious freedom” laws.

And we Republicans find ourselves in a bind, caught between the Bible Belt and a need for fresh accessorizing, between Mississippi and modernity, with evangelicals over here and millennials and soccer moms over there. We have a primary process that won’t graduate anyone who loves the gays too much but a general election that could, for the first time, punish anyone who loves the gays too little.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-the-gops-gay-pretzels.html?_r=0