Posted on 09/08/2004 3:56:08 PM PDT by granite
The board of the Log Cabin Republicans, the largest group for gay men and lesbians in the party, has voted overwhelmingly against endorsing President George Bush for re-election because of his support for a proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
The decision ends six months of soul-searching as the group, which endorsed Mr Bush in 2000 and Bob Dole in 1996, has wrestled with its divided loyalties.
Although the group was immediately critical when the President announced his support for the amendment in February, it refrained from ruling out an endorsement. Its effort to balance loyalty to the party with opposition to a major item on the Republican agenda has made it the target of criticism from both supporters and opponents of the proposed amendment.
As delegates at the Republican national convention prepared to adopt a platform condemning gay parents, for example, a handful of gay rights activists protested outside a Log Cabin party on August 29 in New York. In a meeting on Tuesday night in Washington, the group's board voted 22-2 to withhold its endorsement, a spokesman said.
In a statement afterwards, Log Cabin Republicans executive director Patrick Guerriero cited exit polls showing that more than a million gay men and lesbians voted for Mr Bush in 2000. That included 45,000 in the pivotal state of Florida, which Mr Bush carried by about 500 votes.
"Some will accuse us of being disloyal," Mr Guerriero said. "It was actually the White House who was disloyal" to those gay voters.
However, he said the group "proudly supported the President's firm leadership in the war on terror."
The group also denounced what it called "flip-flops" by Democratic candidate John Kerry, referring to statements that he opposed same-sex marriage and favoured state constitutional amendments to ban it.
Log Cabin chairman William Brownson said the organisation planned to "shift our financial and political resources to defeating the radical right", partly by supporting sympathetic Republican candidates for Congress.
The group's first advertising campaign, which began last week, quoted former president Ronald Reagan's statement that he hoped he "appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears".
However, we all have to get "married" legally at some local government building. The religious ceremony is completely separate.
I don't have a problem with gays having equal secular status to their relationships. I only wish that most gays would do it. Many liberal gays would not really like marriage when they realize the commitment: you are responsible for his DEBTS and all!
It took a while for me to come around to being pro gay legal marriage but I think it would be best for society. There will always be gays and they deserve what we have in terms of rights.
So what goes?
Stupid is as stupid does.
Well now......your thread title explains it all now, doesn't it? What self respecting gay man would......endorse Bush?
For a bunch of whiney homos they at least got that right.
In the end most will vote who will protect them, and it aint Kerry.
Good riddance and goodbye.
Then they have nothing to say at FR here as far as I am concerned, be gone.
Who cares if a bunch of homos find their sexual preference more important than the national security of the country. I guess being able to marry a partner of the same sex takes priority over the thousands of people who were murdered by terrorists on 9/11, or the continued threats to our nation. Maybe they'll get the message when the terrorists put a bomb up their ass. But knowing them, they probably won't even notice the difference.
They can go f**k themselves. Well, never mind, they already do.
Exactly, and the media will make it sound like it's a big hit to the Bush campaign, HAHAHA STFU MSM.
This bull sh*t. They have the same rights we have. If they put their perverted life style before national security, taxes, etc, then they need to move on. I bet they don't even vote for republicans, they just want to infiltrate us. They can go to hell.
You are as full of sh*t as they are (gays). It would not be good for our society, and they have the same rights we have. Your moral compass is broken; if you have one at all.
"They can go f**k themselves.... "
Literally
Not unless you want the recognition. As it is, folks are free to marry by a religious ceremony and are not held by force of law to obtain a license. As far as I know the tax penalties still apply to marriage.
The reason they want the legal status is to use it as justification for forcing the relationships to be accepted on an equal basis with the historical meaning. The design behind this is to use the force of govm't to silence those that don't want their kids to be taught that it is not a good thing.
The fact is, that this gay marriage crap isn't even about friendship fundamentally. If it were, then present contract law would suffice. It's about normalizing all forms of sexual activities and the destruction of ancient historical concepts of family. The goal is to obliterate the family as the foundation of society and replace it with socialist bureaucracies of experts and their minions of underlings.
It's nihilism practiced for the advancement of socialism. The idea that gays need to be recognized as married is ridiculous. They will always be pretending.
Works for me.
This is totally off-subject, but your mention of Elton John made me think of this: Who is the idiot who thought having Elton John on the NFL pre-season extravaganza was a good idea?
What discrimination? My work doesn't allow me to parade my personal life around the office. But for some reason, gays by & large tend to think they should be able to.
Gays are no more penalized for their "lifestyle" than single people. And all these horror stories about not being able to see their lovers in hospitals and being locked out of Last Wills is rot. Anyone with a Living Will can assign Durable Power of Attorney to anyone they so choose and there ain't a damned thing anyone can do to stop or circumvent it. Same goes for naming any beneficiary to the exclusion of all others in one's Last Will.
So, in short, being gay is not an issue. It's their demanding that we alter established Holy Institutions to accommodate them that's the issue.
Probably the same idiot who thought MTV would know anything about wholesome halftime family entertainment.
Hedonists find on one who will pander to them.... america collectively yawns.
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