Reason Magazine: Nick Gillespie- David Lampo: 'Why the GOP Should Embrace Gay Rights'

Source:Reason Magazine- interviewing David Lambo from the CATO Institute.

"In most cases, rank-and-file Republicans are already pro-gay rights," says David Lampo, publications director at the libertarian Cato Institute and the author of the new book, A Fundamental Freedom: Why Republicans, Conservatives, and Libertarians Should Support Gay Rights.

Despite the influence in the party of social conservatives and the Religious Right, Lampo argues that if Republicans actually followed their own rhetoric about limiting the size and scope of government, they would be able to attract gay and lesbian voters who otherwise vote Democratic. An active member of Virginia's Log Cabin Republicans, Lampo believes the party's acceptance of marriage equality is inevitable given the huge social gains gays have made in recent decades." 

From Reason Magazine

What the right-wing (not Center-Right) of the Republican Party doesn't understand about gays (men and women) in America, is that gays tend to be Republican ideologically. I'm talking about constitutional, fiscal, economic, national security, Conservative Republicans. So trying to push gays out of the Republican Party simply because they're gay, because one part of your party (as big as it may be) is very stupid politically. Assuming the Republican Party is still in the business to win elections. Which generally has always been the goal of any major political party which is not just to win elections, but win enough elections to be a governing, majority, political party.