According to this person, they need to get jobs. So I have a feeling this is a new group of people, who are helpless about their circumstances, to be picked on. The fact that our government is not improving safety nets but cutting them back will make this group even more vulnerable to the bigotry. I did point out to this person that many of them did have jobs but due to underemployment and low wages, they still can't afford to rent. That person replied that she didn't believe that and changed the conversation. This person is too empty headed to have thought this up by herself so she is getting it from Fox News, Rush Limbug and probably at the Tea Party Church, which means it's a new meme being spread by the think tanks who invent and spread this propaganda.

They have to designate some enemies and, as usual, will go after those most vulnerable or marginalized.

I hope that we, as democrats, will watch for this and counter it wherever we can.

Good for you for standing up, but not surprised that is fell on deaf ears.

get a job because in our county there are enough homeless children to fill an elementary school and this county is low population and mostly rural. Imagine how many there are in more highly populated counties like Los Angeles County. I also read that statistic in our local fish wrapper that is pretty right wing, but people like that don't want to hear facts. They relish their prejudices and feed them. This is why this country is so messed up.

turn against the economic classes below them.

It's bigotry and makes them feel that they are superior.

The poor and homeless, especially the latter, are in the same predicament that African Americans were in, in the 1950's--no elected representation, stringent social dividing lines, no access to education, very limited access to any other benefits, and those becoming increasingly conditional.

Unfortunately they are not done picking on LGBT people.

increasingly being make to look like the fringe. I hope it works out that way.

They still want to debate gay marriage but it looks like the debate is over.

I know it's probably killing them to do so, but it's no longer politically viable to go down that road.

This evening, my wife and I are going out with a gay couple we are close to, to celebrate a promotion that one of them got, the birthday of the other, and my wife's retirement. These two gay men are staunch Republicans, because they are both fiscal conservatives. Yet they would like to be married, basically because they have been living together for over 25 years, and would like the state to recognize their relationship.

I heard a man interviewed recently who has written a book about getting couples together for dinner. He has a straight couple who he feels have shown *intolerance* together with a gay couple. They don't talk about GLBT issues, but just spend the evening together.

It's much harder to hate or to hold prejudices once you get to know the people you have been bigoted towards.