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Yes, I'm a pretty right leaning guy. I have a long time friend who is a socialist, another friend who is apolitical, another who's a gay liberal, and a wife who's pretty centrist. Politics don't stop people from having other interests in common.
If you're right leaning, I don't see how you can say you're friends with a gay liberal that the right doesn't think deserves to be able to marry who they love. I don't see how you could say you love your wife when the right thinks she shouldn't be able to divorce you or be able to get an abortion even if it results from sexual assault like in Idaho, Kentucky, or Louisiana.
I wouldn't consider anybody a friend that "leaned" towards making my life materially worse. Just because you cheer for the side that hates them just a little is no excuse. I think the people in your life deserve better friends.
First, I'm not religious. So I don't have some sort of "moral" opposition to homosexuality. Follow laws, pay your taxes and have at the "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness".
I'm sorry that a bunch of Christian radicals have soured your idea of a political thought process that valued personal freedoms and lowered governmental interference in its citizens lives. Marriage isn't something the government should be involved in the first place. The government shouldn't have a voice in whether or not people get divorced.
Fiscal responsibility, lowered government involvement with citizens day-to-day lives, and a focus on supporting your own citizenry in your own infrastructure are not things that care about who you love, what gender you identify as, or what sort of religion or not you want to practice. These things were added after the fact.
If you think your friends give a shit about when things were added or whose fault it is compared to you voting for the party that wants to strip them of their rights, I dare you to ask them if they think you made the right choice to put fiscal responsibility ahead of their rights, if they think putting Nazis in power is the right move to get smaller government, if there should be more or less rapists on the supreme court or in the white house. Let us know how those conversations go. I, for one, think blaming others is a cop out to make you feel better about being shitty to the people in your life and being ok with others being shitty to them as well. Don't care what else you have to say, I think how you voted makes you a bad friend to them and a bad person generally.
And who said I voted for Trump? I wouldn't vote for someone who wants to dismantle the country and and destroy the democracy that it's built on. You are making a fuck ton of assumptions that you have no real link for based on someone else you don't like. Pocket your biases and try to actually listen to people before you start pounding the table.