Gay Republican groups like GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans just can’t seem to get a break. Last week the Republican National Committee’s platform-drafting subcommittee approved the party’s most strongly anti-LGBT platform in modern history, and yesterday, hate-group spokesman Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that gay groups aren’t welcome in the Grand Old Party at all:
“They have no business being there. Our message is to them is that your home is in the Democratic Party,” said Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association, a conservative radio host and a leading anti-gay figure in the GOP.
“These groups are actively working to undermine and subvert the Republican party platform and the principles of the Republican Party,” Mr. Fischer said in a telephone interview. “They are undermining the moral foundations of the Republican Party.”
It’s no matter to him that Log Cabin Republicans support nearly every other party platform from tax policy to gun rights.
“There is no place for the homosexual agenda,” he said. “The Republican platform is very clean on the issues of marriage and family and parenting, and these are people that are actively working against the principles of the party.”
When asked about the fact that Republicans under 30 are increasingly abandoning anti-gay social conservatism, Fischer dismissed these members of his party as “young and immature.”
When you have a hate group leader representing the party, I’d say the moral foundation has been successfully undermined.
Gay Republicans need to believe whatever they wish about tax policy and gun rights but what they need to know is that until a Republican candidate has a Sistah Souljah moment with one of these hate leaders they simply cannot vote for and support this party.
I will probably get blasted for this; surely will go to hell- but I honestly don’t feel that I can vote for either candidate, Gary Johnson won’t be able to get enough of the vote to stand a chance and I can’t just sit at home. Damn I hate election years.
I have to agree with this old fart for once. Gay repuplicons shouldn’t have any business in Gawd’s Own Party. Nor should anybody else with half a brain.
Republican party moral fiber? What’s that? Haven’t you been reading the news lately.
My favorite commenter on the NOMBLOG (who goes by the moniker “OvercameSSA” heehee) once said something like “Straight guys don’t want anything to do with homosexuals. If they see a gay guy doing something, they’re going to do the opposite.” He was, of course, referring to marriage (the idea that straight men won’t want to marry women for fear of seeming gay makes me laugh every time), but maybe his theory applies to politics as well.
Perhaps Fischer is worried that, if the party tolerates gays, being Republican will make him look gay.
“My favorite commenter on the NOMBLOG (who goes by the moniker “OvercameSSA” heehee) once said something like “Straight guys don’t want anything to do with homosexuals. If they see a gay guy doing something, they’re going to do the opposite.”
Yet we’re supposed to believe they’re not bigots.
As to the Republicans, they should embrace gay republicans. Self-loathing fools with lots of disposable cash? They’re a Republican’s wet dream.
Thye’re bigots and those gays that have anything to do with them are nothing more than wannabe Quislings. Disgusting that a gay person would even debase themselves that way. I guess money is more important to them than rights.
I’m still a registered Republican (I think), even though I voted for Kerry in ’04 (I stayed home in ’08, but will definitely vote for Obama this year). How do you go about changing your party?
Anyway, I now consider myself a God-fearing, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-death penalty (in certain circumstances), pro-gay Democrat. What Obama says makes a hell of a lot more sense than what Romney/Ryan and Akin and others of their ilk say.
At least you put something else in between pro-life and pro-death.