"Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani continues to discard the moderate and
liberal positions of his past. The latest is civil unions for same-sex couples,
which the Republican presidential candidate has been backing away from in recent
months. A campaign aide told the Globe this weekend that Giuliani favors a much
more modest set of rights for gay partners than civil union laws in effect in
four states offer. […] “It’s really disappointing he’s stepped back from his
position on civil unions,” said Joe Tarver, spokesman for the Empire State Pride
Alliance, a group that advocates for gay rights in New York state that worked
with and against Giuliani on a number of issues during his eight years as mayor.
Calling the former mayor’s shifting stance “pretty un-Giuliani-like,” Tarver
said: “It’s quite obvious he’s playing to the people whose votes he needs to get
the Republican nomination.”"
Giuliani may be throwing gays under the bus as a means of advancing his campaign in what is a very conservative field, but it isn't going to work. Gays will rebel, and while you are thinking that gays don't vote republican, some do - in fact they have a group called the Log Cabin Republicans. On the other hand conservative Christians already have a number of choices in candidates who have been solidly against gay rights, from which to choose. When it comes down to voting, even if they see Giuliani as being against gay rights, they will see his position as being weak. Voters will choose someone with a strong stand on an issue versus a weak stand on an issue when two or more candidates have similar positions.
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