Better watch out Utah. The question is why do some Republicans pussyfoot around this issue. It isn't as if Utah is a place where you have to worry about being too conservative.
Better watch out Utah. The question is why do some Republicans pussyfoot around this issue. It isn't as if Utah is a place where you have to worry about being too conservative.
Placemark
I thought that the “Log Cabin Republicans” had been exposed in 2008 as Democrats endorsing Barack Obama.
There is a new gay Republican group but LCR doesn’t fit the bill.
Here is Mitt Romney’s letter to the Log Cabin Republicans.
To the Members of the Log Cabin Club of Massachusetts:
I am writing to thank the Log Cabin Club of Massachusetts for the advice and support you have given to me during my campaign for the U.S. Senate and to seek the Club’s formal endorsement of my election. The Log Cabin Club has played a vital role in reinvigorating the Republican Party in Massachusetts and your endorsement is important to me because it will provide further confirmation that my campaign and approach to government is consistent with the values and vision of government we share.
I am pleased to have had an opportunity to talk with you and to meet many of you personally during your September meeting. I learned a great deal from those discussions and the many thoughtful questions you posed. As a result of our discussions and other interactions with gay and lesbian voters across the state, I am more convinced than ever before that as we seek to establish full equality for Americas gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than my opponent.
I am not unaware of my opponent’s considerable record in the area of civil rights, or the commitment of Massachusetts voters to the principle of equality for all Americans. For some voters it might be enough for me to simply match my opponent’s record in this area. But I believe we can and must do better. If we are to achieve the goals we share, we must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern. My opponent cannot do this. I can and will.
We have discussed a number of important issues such as the Federal Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which I have agreed to co-sponsor, and if possible broaden to include housing and credit, and the bill to create a federal panel to find ways to reduce gay and lesbian youth suicide, which I also support. One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share.
As we begin the final phase of this campaign, I need your support more than ever. By working together, we will achieve the goals we share for Massachusetts and our Nation.
Sincerely,
W. Mitt Romney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2229749/posts
Log Cabin splinters as gay conservatives exit
The Washington Times ^ | April 15, 2009 | S. A. Miller
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2226438/posts
Gay Republicans split (insert own jokes)
Politico ^ | 04/10/09 | Ben Smith
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197695/posts
Log Cabin under Democratic control? - Rich Democrat, Tim Gill, is dictating GOP group’s direction
Alliance Defense Fund ^ | February 27, 2009 | Chris Johnson
The amount of money that the Gill Action Fund has contributed to the Log Cabin Republicans — about one-third of its total budget in some years — is raising questions about Democratic influence over the GOP organization and its search for a new president.
Tim Gill, founder and chair of Gill Action, is widely known for funding the campaigns of pro-gay politicians, many of them Democrats. He’s a wealthy entrepreneur and founder of Quark who has donated tens of thousands of dollars to various Democratic causes and candidates, including to the campaigns of Sens. John Kerry, John Edwards and Chris Dodd, as well as New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. Gill is viewed as publicity shy, but made a rare public appearance at last year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver where he lives.
Sources familiar with Log Cabin, who spoke to the Blade on the condition of anonymity, said Gill Action’s contributions last year comprised $250,000 of Log Cabin’s $750,000 budget. The sources said in 2007, Gill Action’s donations constituted a similar percentage of Log Cabin’s budget.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190661/posts
‘Gays’ put ‘terrorist’ label on Christians
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | February 20, 2009 | Bob Unruh
A leader of a homosexual faction of Republicans is lobbying the new party chairman, Michael Steele, to ignore the suggestions of a pro-family Christian group to support traditional marriage, because the Christians are “terrorists.” The attack comes from Jamie Ensley, president of the Georgia “Log CabinRepublicans,” who also compared the Illinois-based Americans for Truth to Germany’s Nazi party.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2188048/posts
McCain Daughter to Address ‘Log Cabin’ Group
ABC News, The Note ^ | 02/17/09 | Teddy Davis
Equality Utah is a non-partisan organization, where as Log Cabin, Humphreys says, "is not a GLBT organization. We're a Republican organization that supports GLBT equality."
Log cabin republicans IS a "gay" group. Their defining characteristic is their chosen sexual behavior. If they were not a "gay" group they'd have no reason to exist.
The Common Ground initiative, he says, was good for publicity and seized on just the right issues--hospital visitation for same-sex couples,
This can be done through contractual law already.
non-discrimination in housing and employment, etc.
This is discrimination against the property owner and the employer
He argues that Republicans are vital to LGBT activists in Utah who want change on the state level and says the organization provides a conservative alternative to most LGBT organizations, most of which lean left politically.
LCR is a leftist organization. It agitates for sexual perversion which is a leftist staple
The Tea Party brand, Humphreys says, has been co-opted by far-right religious organizations lead by people who "love their religion but they don't love their fellow man," which is to say they're religious and homophobic.
Is it more loving to enable, even encourage, someone to stay in their sin , live in the chains of perverse sexuality and go to hell or to make it easier for them to abandon their sin and have a chance at a normal life and heaven? Seems to me it's far more loving to see people set free from their perversion.
All of the LCR statements line up perfectly with the second law of homosexuality:
To the mentally healthy (heterosexual), sex is something you do.
To the mentally diseased ('homosexual'), sex is everything you are.
None of that PC crap here
I'll just bet!
Groans!