Who will be the first Gay President?

[minionofmidas]

James Buchanan, possibly James Madison.

[minionofmidas]

Okay, so we've conclusively answered the question "who was the first gay president?" On to the next question, "who will be the next gay president". And the answer is: Whoever wins in 2008, of course, unless it's Hilary.

Holland had an openly gay presindent.

The Netherlands are a monarchy. Silly you.

[minionofmidas]

You're probably thinking of Pim Fortuyn, who was basically the Straha of the Netherlands.

I find that comment offensive.

Why? Straha's probably ideologically closest to Fortuyn of all the posters we got here.

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Not really. He got pretty far but not that far.

[minionofmidas]

German women think a gay chancellor is OK by 83-15 and men by 75-23. In the former West-German states the acceptance is at 87%, in the former East-German states it stands at 77%.

Surprising, considering the levels of religion in each.

Religion plays an incredibly small role in European politics as a whole.

More importantly, atheists in East Germany tend to be the unreformed communists, who are also very socially intolerant.

"Unreformed communists"? Lol.

[minionofmidas]

German women think a gay chancellor is OK by 83-15 and men by 75-23. In the former West-German states the acceptance is at 87%, in the former East-German states it stands at 77%.

Surprising, considering the levels of religion in each.

Religion plays an incredibly small role in European politics as a whole.

More importantly, atheists in East Germany tend to be the unreformed communists, who are also very socially intolerant.

"Unreformed communists"? Lol.

Hey, not all of them, but who would you say votes for Die Linkspartei? Socially conservative atheists are well-documented in the vast majority of former communist states, and East Germany is no exception.

Yeah, but they vote CDU. On most issues including what you#d call social issues, Linkspartei voters (stress on voters) actually hold the *center* in East Germany... weird as it sounds. There are exceptions, mind. One well documented one being issues of war and peace, with Linke support strongly pacifist.