I'm not so sure about that, abaris. Reagan was considered too conservative to win the nomination by some, and it wasn't until late in the first campaign that he began to lead in the polls. He was unapologetically religious and occasionally wore his Christianity on his sleeve. I don't think he targeted gays because he had more than enough boogeymen to chase after, and the rise of the religious right during his presidency took care of any such issues that he didn't focus on.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
