The issue before the Repubican Party should be not money, but truth.  While these comments might appear insensitve or not civil, our country was founded upon the right to speak one's mind.  The first of the Sons of Liberty to say, "Let's stand up to England" was saying something that politically incorrect, that was not civil, and that was insensitive.  

Whenever anyone --- be it an individual or a group ---chooses to either fund or to defund a cause based upon one person's statement, it is a reaction based upon narrw mindedness.  Our nation was founded by ideals; out Constitution was framed by people of many, many differing views.  They all worked through these differences to frame a Constitution.  

It is appalling that the Republican Party should bow to the whims of a few people whose only apparently concern is how the Republicans appear.  Mr. Aegma should be allowed to express his views on whatever, wherever.  And then he, in all divility, should openly state that his personal opinion does not affect his job, that he will lead the Republican Party based upon the party's platform.  

What we are creating here is like the Communist state that the Soviet Union once was:  a place where one was unable to speak one's mind, where one was unable to take a picture of anything one wanted, and where one was unable to express an opinion.  God help us all.  Each one of us is different; each one of us holds differing opinions.  Let's be wise enough to see the difference between an individual's beliefs and an indivdiual's work quality and ethics.  
  