How do the Republicans and Democrats compare on LGBT issues?
Neil Giuliano: Well the Republican Party is still very controlled by factions within the party that are religiously based and use religious based discrimination to justify their very anti-gay and defamatory comments and behavior towards the LGBT community. Those leaders within the Republican Party still have that kind of influence on the party. You need only look at what went on in the Republican primaries to note that kind of influence. Now it’s of significance that there were- that John McCain got through those primaries, but if he had only been running against one very, very rightwing, religiously based conservative, instead of a couple, that might not have been the case. So the dynamic worked very interestingly. It’s fantastic and it is groundbreaking that the LGBT community’s relationship with leadership in the Democratic Party has brought us to a place where we had all of the major candidates for the Democratic nomination come before an LGBT audience, talk about LGBT issues, have
