Was this whole Arizona gay religious rights thing one big unforced error for the GOP?

Jon Gabriel thinks so...

Hey I support gay marriage (I have done so for years), but I know if you give the gay mafia Hedwig's angry inch, they will take a mile.  The gay mafia is the PC wing of the homosexual community who is militant about controlling thought. We need to recognize that most of the media and the gay mafia are liars. They want faux outrage and will manufacture it if we let them. This legislation was not anti gay, but it was also not really necessary (Arizona republicans admitted that). However, there are some small businesses around the nation are being persecuted over PC enforcement of laws that should frankly be unconstitutional.  But by poorly drafting and communicating what this legislation was about, the Arizona GOP lost ground.  And of course establishment GOP did their predictable part to panic and collapse to the Democrats, media and gay mafia (freaking out about the midterms), rather than rationally communicating this about allowing everyone freedom, not persecuting gays.

Debacle?  It is a small error and will have no long term impact in itself, but it was a completely avoidable one. The opposition is studying how they can do this again (and again) coming up to those midterms and the 2016 election. We need to review it to understand how not to be played.

And let's not forget the rest of the panderers (here is an example):

Big Gay Roger Goodell

And yeah, I know there is technically no "unforced" errors in baseball, but they certainly exist in politics.

Update:
Democrats love fund raising over Republicans