Posted on 09/08/2004 3:56:08 PM PDT by granite
The board of the Log Cabin Republicans, the largest group for gay men and lesbians in the party, has voted overwhelmingly against endorsing President George Bush for re-election because of his support for a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
The decision ends six months of soul-searching as the group, which endorsed Mr Bush in 2000 and Bob Dole in 1996, has wrestled with its divided loyalties.
Although the group was immediately critical when the President announced his support for the amendment in February, it refrained from ruling out an endorsement. Its effort to balance loyalty to the party with opposition to a major item on the Republican agenda has made it the target of criticism from both supporters and opponents of the proposed amendment.
As delegates at the Republican national convention prepared to adopt a platform condemning gay parents, for example, a handful of gay rights activists protested outside a Log Cabin party on August 29 in New York. In a meeting on Tuesday night in Washington, the group's board voted 22-2 to withhold its endorsement, a spokesman said.
In a statement afterwards, Log Cabin Republicans executive director Patrick Guerriero cited exit polls showing that more than a million gay men and lesbians voted for Mr Bush in 2000. That included 45,000 in the pivotal state of Florida, which Mr Bush carried by about 500 votes.
"Some will accuse us of being disloyal," Mr Guerriero said. "It was actually the White House who was disloyal" to those gay voters.
However, he said the group "proudly supported the President's firm leadership in the war on terror."
The group also denounced what it called "flip-flops" by Democratic candidate John Kerry, referring to statements that he opposed same-sex marriage and favoured state constitutional amendments to ban it.
Log Cabin chairman William Brownson said the organisation planned to "shift our financial and political resources to defeating the radical right", partly by supporting sympathetic Republican candidates for Congress.
The group's first advertising campaign, which began last week, quoted former president Ronald Reagan's statement that he hoped he "appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears".
Well, I kinda understand what these people are saying.
Heck just the other day, I was thinking about poking one of the neighbors sheep and for a brief moment, I was having positive thoughts about kerry. LOL
Is Bush still going to seek another term now? /sarc
See Tammy Bruce, Al Rantel. We should be proud to have them out there on our side.
If that's the case you need to stop calling yourselves Log Cabin Republicans. I can't wait to see if Kerry wins and these LC Repubs get blown to hell by some terrorist all because they couldn't be legally bonded in matrimony, Hey message to LC the "plumbin don't fit"
This ought to be worth an additional 2% point bump for The Prez.
So, the screamers are throwing a hussy fit. It figures.
Log Cabin chairman William Brownson said the organisation planned to "shift our financial and political resources to defeating the radical right", partly by supporting sympathetic Republican candidates for Congress.
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This should be easy! Find an "Elect Amb. Alan Keyes to the U.S. Senate from Illinois 2004" thread, seek out your RINO heathen buddies, and together you can take'em on!
We're radical alright...RAD MAN! Activist queers, communists and muhammadans...what a world!
Did they stomp their foot when they refused?
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All 12,000 of them, 300 having paid Log Ramming dues in the last year...wow.
These Log Cabin clowns want gay marriage. That means they want to change the defining characteristics of the historical institution. They are not interested in conservatism, or simply the end of unjustified discrimination.
The Muhammadans want to do some significantly naughty and mean things to queers...one in Europe is talking about throwing them off of buildings and stoning the ones that live.
So, you have the RATS that will use Muhammadan Terrorists in their campaign strategery and will get us all killed or placed in a Taliban society OR you have the GOP that will accept you, but not change civilization for your little pecker-driven, carpet-munching definitions of life.
Log Cabin Drama Queens
Narcissistic self-indulgence is the only thing they want. I don't care what they do, as long as they don't expect others to accept it.
So what....
Let them become Log Cabin Democraps.
Sodom and Gomorrah must have been similar.
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