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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.
Based on numbers alone I wouldn’t think it would be worth spending any real time and money to try and bring them aboard.
If they want to vote republican based on conservative principles I’ll welcome them but the party doesn’t need to accommodate them.
The GOP should stick to principles and leave the disaffected little groups roaming around everywhere alone IMHO
I agree.
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If Steele believes in the big tent GOP, I need to no longer be a republican, just like Rush.
If Steele believes in the big tent GOP, I need to no longer be a republican, just like Rush.
Be wary of anyone whose entire identity is predicated on their choice of where to put their sexual organs.
So Steele is in bed with RINO Whitman in founding a pro-death liberal group. I did not know that.
Homosexual agenda bump.
Rush has always said he's a conservative and that conservatism doesn't need to pander to any group. It's principles apply to all people. Sometimes we try to see the GOP as the party of conservatism then get disappointed when they don't stick to conservative principles.
If you are a Republican, fine. I and many others are conservatives first and only vote GOP because they are closer to the principles of personal freedom than any other political party who can win elections.
I’m not homophobic, just homonaseous....I just want strict-constructionists conservatives to vote, I don’t care what their favorite lollypop is.
well said IMHO.
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I agree, I am a conservative republican, but I may have to only claim to be a conservative and to hell with the republican party.
agreed... I know a quite few that vote (R) -— I think it’s funny they have to ‘remain in the closet’ with their other friends about that!
>>>Based on numbers alone I wouldn’t think it would be worth spending any real time and money to try and bring them aboard.
George Bush won Florida by less then 600 votes, saving the US from an Al Gore presidency. With the overall margins so thin, how many votes can you really afford to carelessly throw away? Keep slicing away the Gays, Hispanics, and Women and after a while all you have left is Spanky and Alfalfa at the He-Man Woman Haters Club. They may be good guys but they are not enough.
Politics by definition depends on coalitions. As offensive as that may be to the Purists.
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