Posted on 08/02/2006 8:33:15 AM PDT by Mister Belvedere
If so, can I start a daily chat thread especially for us?
JEEEESSSS, how did I let that one get by me?????
I have this vague recall that a group of gay Republicans met to discuss their political concerns and decided to form a lobbying group, and that this first meeting was held in a cabin by a lake in Wisconsin...a log cabin. Somebody suggested they name their group for the place where they first met. If this is wrong I'm sure someone will correct it.
I can't understand the "LCR statement" either. Tell me if you are a social and Fiscal Conservative first. To make this your first post is pretty in your face which turns me off to dialog with someone who has an agenda. If I'm wrong, my apology to the new member.
Why would you consider NOT wanting to be involved with a GROUP that is funded by the same people that funded the Vietnam Moratorium bigotry?
Well that is true, there is a deep discrimination on this forum for the "LBW" community. God luv 'em
And that mindset hasn't developed any further with the left.
I can bet you are posting this thread on other liberal sites to show what a bunch of bigoted homophobes we are. Well we are not and we really don't care. But you, by your mere opening comment have proved you are not a conservative at all, and your "log-cabinness" has nothing to do with it.
Prepare for the ZOT.
I recall reading that too.
Oh well, now I just read a post where it was stated that these gay Republicans believed Lincoln was gay and named themselves after him without using his name...using his association in history with a log cabin, thus calling themselves Log Cabin Republicans. Maybe that's it and I dreamed that it had to do with their meeting first in a log cabin. I'm really not sure, just thought I recalled something...
Curb your enthusiasm. No reach arounds here, Missy.
He's dead, Jim.
If so, I think they are dissapointed by all the reasonable responses.
See my post following yours; another poster had a different impression.
Not as long as you keep your log out of my cabin.
To be honest it's a guess on my part. It's not something I have investigated.
Seems like we have a contender for Post of the Day!!
So we can take the ban as the answer to his question is NO, Log Cabin Republicans are not welcome here.
(rightfully so imo)
That is what I hope it means.
Thanks.
Someone posted a link to wikipedia:
The name of the organization is a reference to the first Republican President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, who was born in a log cabin. The group initially proposed to name themselves Lincoln Club, but found that name was already in use by another California Republican organization. Thus, an alternate name was chosen that still invoked the memory of President Lincoln: Log Cabin Republicans. Historical accounts by biographers that Lincoln may have been gay surfaced long after the organization was formed, and did not contribute to the choice of the name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Cabin_Republicans
Not sure if that is accurate either, but I have at least satisfied my linguistic curiosity. :-)
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