The 31-year-old Hardt who is openly gay and lives in Dallas said the vote does not sit well with the majority of his groups' 300,000 members. He said he had surveyed chapter leaders across the country and heard from several thousand members about ENDA. More than 90 percent of the people he heard from opposed a gay-only ENDA said Hardt. Four years ago the Young Dems became the first national Democratic group to support a trans-inclusive ENDA said Hardt.
In addition while marketers have long salivated over the high average incomes purportedly enjoyed by professional gay men lesbians are hardly scraping for pocket change. A 2002 study published in Contemporary Economic Policy found that they earn 30% more than their heterosexual counterparts. [...]In addition despite prevailing stereotypes of exaggerated frugality recent studies demonstrate that lesbian-fueled domestic consumption patterns are in many cases as vigorous—if not more so—than any other.
Hostility is rooted in the Koranic story of Lot which parallels the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. At Al-Tawhid Mosque in San Francisco the imam. Hassan al-Jalal a Yemeni with a short beard printed a sheaf of Koranic verses that he said condemned homosexuals.
“This is the main sin in Islam,” Mr. Jalal said describing how the town housing Lot’s tribe was lifted high into the sky and then dropped killing all in the town before they were buried under what is now the Dead Sea. “He sent the flood to clean the earth from AIDS. There were no doctors at that time but God knew they had a virus.”
All sects mandate capital punishment he argued although others differ. “Sunni. Shiite they all agree that they have to be killed. But who does it? Not me or you only by law.”
Muslim clerics reject being gay as biologically coded and advise anyone with homosexual stirrings to avoid temptation. They see America as rife with it given practices like open gym showers.
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