the Gay republican

i found out recently a friend of mine who is competing on the currently shooting season of Project Runway, is a gay republican. This doesn't surprise me for a number of reasons. one being we met in the south, and it was in Georgia that i met my first gay republican and learned about the movement. secondly, he is portuguese catholic from New England, just like me so i can understanfd the climate of conservativism that must have grown up with. The portugues are notoriously conservatie and will smak you up with a life times worth of catholic guilt issues.
Lastly, this person though i love them thrives on a certain sense of self created dramatics. what's more dramatic then believing your way of loving is some how not worthy of be recognized as a union of love. That's one of his main point as a gay republican, that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry. its not a legal or biblical union worth recognition.
I've heard him say this before but honestly i thought he was just be contradictory for flare, i never believed he'd vote Bush over it.
The gay republican is a quagmire for me, i guess for many people. The idea someone could have dueling opinions or be a republican and not fully be taken by all their opinion doesn't surprise me. its that the republican party has long held it position on not recognizing and i feel there for not respecting the gay community. it continuously remakes on it as a moral issue and has long held a negative almost hateful opinion of gay unions.
So how does one support that party. It like being on welfare and being a republican.
Sites like gaypatriot.com hope to dispel such an uninformed opinion such as mine. I have bookmark it with huffingtonreport.com and that will be the extent of my political knowledge. i got some back blogs entries of perez hilton to read.