By the way, I was NOT suggesting in that last post that gay people are "wimps". They are, like other people, of all types of personalities, assertive and non-asssertive, aggressive and passive, etc. But I do find it interesting that wimpiness is such a damaging label for a president to be saddled with, that's all, so I talked about that some. (I think, however, that an enormous number of people DO think gay men are wimpy...it's a common stereotype, and has been for centuries.)

The main objection most Americans would have rising up in their subconscious about a gay person being president is simply that a gay person does not represent the picture they have in their minds of a surrogate parent for the nation. They're unfamiliar with a gay person in that role, therefore they would feel quite uncomfortable with it. It would not meet their usual expectations, and it would not make them feel safe and secure.

And that is the major impediment in the way of electing a gay person as president.

I'm not suggesting in any of this that Obama is secretly gay. I have no opinion about that at all, and I don't particularly care either. It's a non-issue to me. What I am talking about is not Obama...but the general reaction of a predominantly heterosexual culture to the idea of electing a gay president. Period.