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Discussing the pro-gay voting record of Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee (RI), liberal blogger DailyKos disregards the Senator’s 86% rating from the Human Rights Campaign and states:

But Chafee voted for Bill Frist for majority leader — HRC rating of 0 and strong backer and cheerleader of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Chafee also voted for Mitch McConnel as the number two Republican in the Senate (assistant majority leader), and — get this — Rick Santorum for the number three slot (conference secretary). Both McConnel and Santorum have big fat ZEROs from the HRC scorecard. And we all know about “man on dog” and “man on child” Santorum.

HRC opposed just five judges of the 200 or so Bush nominated that have received Senate votes. Chafee voted to confirm four of those five judges. Jay Bybee, Michael McConnell, Jeffrey Sutton, and Timothy Tymkovich. He voted against William Pryor.

Chafee is a member of a party that hates homosexuals and seeks to deny them equal rights. By being in the Senate, Chafee enables the GOP anti-gay agenda, electing an anti-gay leadership and voting for anti-gay judges in the name of party unity.

What Kos is advocating, it seems, is that no gay should ever support a Republican and no Republican should ever support the gays. Seems like a recepie to elect Democrats, but not one to make any substantive advances in gay rights–especially since Democrats can’t be supported on with any more regularity than say, Lincoln Chaffee.

Oh, and memo to Mike Rogers…it’s now “the gays”.

HRC idiocy [DailyKos]