As Joe Jervis said about this press release from GOProud, you just can’t make this stuff up:
On behalf of limited government conservatives everywhere we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the Tea Party movement.
Poll after poll confirms that the Tea Party’s laser focus on issues of economic freedom and limited government resonated with the American people on Election Day. The Tea Party movement galvanized around a desire to return to constitutional government and against excessive spending, taxation and government intrusion into the lives of the American people.
The Tea Party movement is a non-partisan movement, focused on issues of economic freedom and limited government, and a movement that will be as vigilant with a Republican-controlled Congress as we were with a Democratic-controlled Congress.
This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue, nor should it be interpreted as a political blank check.
Already, there are Washington insiders and special interest groups that hope to co-opt the Tea Party’s message and use it to push their own agenda – particularly as it relates to social issues. We are disappointed but not surprised by this development. We recognize the importance of values but believe strongly that those values should be taught by families and our houses of worship and not legislated from Washington, D.C.
Here is the thing, though: one of the hallmarks of the 2010 Teabagger Candidate was that she was, among other things, extremely anti-gay. I understand the frustration that some Tea Party people must feel, those who really bought into the idea that their movement was somehow new and different and removed from the Republican party, but that’s mostly a media myth. And the fact that so many of these new legislators, besides being teabaggers, are anti-gay, has never been a secret. So this press release, to me, is kind of sad. If GOProud really feels they can have a positive impact in holding back the gnarled jaws of some of their candidates to keep them from hurting LGBT people, though, more power to them, I suppose.
GOProud wants to describe the Tea Party Movement as non-partisan! So who are all these Tea baggers who were elected to Congress under the Tea Party mantle on the Democratic ticket?
I think this is a literal (in the racist sense) whitewash by GOProud.
No rational person can argue with any integrity that GOP policies are “fiscally conservative.”
GOProud shares the Party’s support for runaway deficit growth to subsidize unjustifiable wars, mercenary security contractors, and massive corporate welfare to energy companies, agribusiness, and finance cartels.
GOProud also supports Party policies which purposely use government to transfer wealth from underpaid workers to overpaid and unproductive executives. GOProud supports the looting of workers’ Social Security and Medicare funds; the reckless and unsustainable stripping of non-renewable resources from publicly owned lands; the government abandonment of the nation’s taxpayer-owned highway and rail systems; and the transfer of economic and political power to authoritarian corporate environments such as China and Russia.
GOProud favors corporate control of regulators and elections, so that American laws are written by and for corporations, and citizens only enjoy rights that are parceled out to them by corporations.
GOProud supports the elimination of the middle class and with it, the economic and social mobility that kept America strong and stable for the past century.
In short, there is no authenticity in GOProud’s claims to support social and economic freedom. It’s just one big racial, gender-based, corporate, and religious whitewash.
Well said, Michael.
Pitiful to see gay men virtually begging not to be hurt. I thought this was GOProud, not GOWhineAndCringe.
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GOProud stands for gays only. I’m straight. I don’t want my taxes to increase to support gay and polygamous marriages nationwide. Taxed Enough Already means stop foreign spending first. GOProud has their own agenda; and they don’t stand for me.
This is all propoganda straight from After the Ball, the 1990 book that talked about how “gay Republicans will blow people’s minds!” uh, see, I read, so I’m not buying into it.
The same book talks about getting the APA in their pocket with money, which they did easily.
Well played, but it’s pure nonsense.
Guest32, the vast majority of gays and lesbians have not read “After the Ball”. That the authors were some kind of pope for gays is a religious right wing myth just as is your suggestion that gay marriage is a slippery slope to polygamous marriages. Many jurisdictions have had equal marriage for many years and there isn’t even the slightest attempt to follow that with polygamous marriages.
What’s weird to me is that polygamy has more common roots with fundamentalist Christianity than it does with equal marriage rights. Polygamy is a patriarchal system, and is indeed, very Biblical, as it encourages women to be treated as chattel, second class, etc.
I would argue that things like polygamy would have a better chance in a world run by theocratic Christians.
Im starting to think I should read After the Ball simply because the religious right keeps telling me it’s some kind of master plan for our world takeover.
i’ve never read it either. In fact I didn’t learn about it until right wingers started telling me what my reading list was.
STILL haven’t read it.