This is a simple frame that should be shouted loud and trumpeted everywhere.
"The extreme elements of the Republican party are seeking to criminalize homosexuality and deny Constitutional rights and protections to Americans on the basis of their sexuality." We need to make this charge in extremis so that they have to deny it. I want them to say, "no, really, we don't hate gays". Then maybe the wingnut/religiofascists will ignore them at the polls. I want Mary Cheney showing up on talk shows and her daddy saying how proud he is of his gay daughter. Don't be timid. Make the charge big and bold. "Why do Republicans despise the homosexual minority in this country?" Do most Americans even know that in over 30 states it is legal to fire someone based on their sexual preference? If they want wedge, we got it. Don't let them brand it as "values", let's make them deny that it is "hate".