Posted on 02/17/2009 2:22:53 PM PST by MovementConservative
A conservative activist group is urging the new chairman of the Republican National Committee to refrain from courting homosexual activists within the GOP.
Illinois-based Americans for Truth About Homosexuality is calling on socially conservative Republicans to call or write new party chairman Michael Steele and ask him not to promote the agenda of the Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual activist group.
Log Cabin praised Steele's election last month, saying the former Maryland lieutenant governor "believes in a big tent GOP" and "is an inclusive leader who will bring a new energy and a new vision to the GOP at a critical time."
Americans for Truth president Peter LaBarbera says Steele would be unwise to embrace the Log Cabin agenda.
"Every time a new guy like Steele comes in, the Log Cabin Republicans try to say, 'Hey, he's one of our guys. He's for inclusion,'" claims LaBarbera.
But Steele, says LaBarbera, would give up substantially more than he would gain should he reach out to the homosexual activists. "[T]he reality is there's only 20,000 members all across the country of this tiny homosexual activist group called the Log Cabin Republicans," he shares. "It's not a worthwhile exchange to get 20,000 votes to lose millions and millions of faithful, pro-family religious conservatives who are the grassroots of the Republican Party."
LaBarbera says his group is merely asking Steele to defend the Republican Party's platform on the issues of life and marriage. He notes the Log Cabin Republicans have called for the repeal of Proposition 8, the voter-approved amendment banning same-sex "marriage" in California.
Some conservatives have been critical of Steele's past involvement with the Republican Leadership Council, a pro-abortion, centrist group he founded with Christie Todd Whitman.
So how is Steele’s performance so far? (I’ve been busy...)
Keep pandering to perverts and you'll lose far more votes than you'll gain. Keep dragging the goalpost to the left and you get to vote for the lesser of two leftists....
We tried that already and wound up with zero!
agreed
pandering to homosexuals is not what the party is about.
If these log cabins so called want to vote for conservative principles, fine but if they want to change our platform of traditional marriage and traditional families then they can go and piss off.
The majority of Americans believe in traditional upbringing for kids and marriages and the GOP should get this message out more as well as illegal immigration and abortion which many are now coming around to seeing.
I say this not as someone who is religious but as someone who believes in traditional values what made this country.
The family was the backbone of this country and to try and experiment with their perverted agenda is disgusting and should be stopped
Also get rid of affirmative action, the liberals cannot use this no more now a non white man is in power
Most Americas do not want affirmative action, soft on child perverts and homo’s along with no more illegals getting in.
So Steele should be using this and getting the message out not pandering to a tiny % of homo’s
They won’t be roaming around everywhere alone. They will support Democrats.
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