Parties cannot be held accountable if you disregard their names or interfere with their nominating processes, both of which the blanket primary does. A political party is a corporate body whose members and leaders collectively can be held accountable when they fall out of favor with the electorate. Blanket primaries are a device for avoiding party accountability. The closed primary lets us know who nominated any lemons. Nothing keeps us from voting for the opposition next time.
Woods talks about a young relative who was raped, taunted and then commited suicide.
Religious conservatives want to believe that homosexuals can change. If they can believe that a liberal homosexual Jewish Democrat can change to a conservative heterosexual Christian Republican, they have to believe that they too can change. When a child contemplates suicide, you would hope that they would explore all the options. Homosexual children don't have the option to change their orientation or the laws that discriminate against them. America has a serious energy shortage and President Bush has presented a comprehensive, long-term plan that will address our energy needs now and in the future.