Hawk, you make some good points. But I think for a lot of Americans the unfamiliar territory of a (closeted) "gay" President is probably no more threatening than that of a (half-) black President or a woman President or (shudder) an openly non-religious President.

Interestingly enough, several Republican Congress people who have been revealed to have been involved in homosexual activities even while actively working against "gay rights" seem to have continued to be embraced by their Republican constituents. The only gays whom the right-wingers seem to be dead set against are the Democratic or "liberal" ones.