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Weekend Perspectives: At our expense How Bush won through hostility toward gays and lesbians
Pittsburgh Post Gazette ^ | Saturday, November 13, 2004 | Anthony C. Infanti

Posted on 11/13/2004 7:58:21 AM PST by pittsburgh gop guy

Edited on 11/13/2004 8:02:05 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: pittsburgh gop guy; scripter; Grampa Dave; little jeremiah; lentulusgracchus; ArGee; Bryan
BTTT


What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda


Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)


Myth and Reality about Homosexuality--Sexual Orientation Section, Guide to Family Issues"

21 posted on 11/13/2004 9:11:53 AM PST by EdReform (Free Republic - helping to keep our country a free republic. Thank you for your financial support!)
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To: pittsburgh gop guy; little jeremiah; scripter; EdReform; MeekOneGOP

This left wing lawyer is an admitted gay. He is a gay activist agenda pusher. He hates conservatives, GW and suffers from acute Christianphobia.

Below is the Yahoo search on this "jewel" of the perverted ones:

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Anthony%20C.%20Infanti%20Gay

To little jeremiah, scripter, ed reform, meekonegop, this ChristianPhobe has a long record of what he stands for.


22 posted on 11/13/2004 9:21:20 AM PST by Grampa Dave (FNC/ABCNNBCBS & the MSM fishwraps are the Rathering Fraudcasters of America!)
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To: EdReform; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; stage left; Yakboy; I_Love_My_Husband; ...

Homosexual Agenda Ping (I hope I'm not double-pinging this...Did you ping it already, EdR?)

Just a little window into the twisted world of "gay" activist reporters and how their hatred and psychosis make them see black as white, and white as black.

They are also driven to try to twist others. That's the problem. If they just remained sick, miserable and angry all by their lonesome, it would be fine by me. But they are driven with a mission to change the world into one that suits them.

Funny how leftists are all on the same side with just about all issues.

Let me and Scripter know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.


23 posted on 11/13/2004 9:27:52 AM PST by little jeremiah (Moral absolutes are what make humans human.)
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To: pittsburgh gop guy
California, a Kerry state and probably the most 'gay-friendly' state in the Union, rejected gay marriage some time ago with 60% of the vote. So, apparently, the Liberals cannot admit that even their precious Blue States are the same hateful homophobes as everywhere else.
24 posted on 11/13/2004 9:38:32 AM PST by atomicpossum (I am the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.)
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To: MattMa
Log Cabin Republicans got started in California during the late 1970's. Just stating fact not trying to start any arguments.

That is interesting. I remember a big deal about its leader being a Democrat a few weeks before the Election. I wonder if this Democrat "took over" or "crossed over?"

25 posted on 11/13/2004 10:00:47 AM PST by elizabetty
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To: San Jacinto

Not to aggravate you further - but note that this punk is a law professor.

Diva's Husband


26 posted on 11/13/2004 11:51:58 AM PST by Diva Betsy Ross (God bless the Swift Boat Vets!)
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To: Ghengis
The gays and their allies brought this battle on America.

Exactly. Remember the gays' football cheer on national television the night The Rapist was elected?

"We're here, we're queer, we're going to the White House!"

Then they took great pleasure in informing the nation that the White House was soon thereafter "broken in" by two sodomites. They fouled the People's house, and then Clinton took his turns. I mean, how much are people supposed to put up with?

And now they whine......"unfair, unfair!" Bull. Payback is a bitch, but they haven't even seen the real thing.

27 posted on 11/13/2004 11:53:06 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: pittsburgh gop guy

I am so sick of "gays" rattling on about their lifestyle. I DON"T CARE! Making sex an issue for public policy is the silliest waste of time imaginable. At least now some of the crybabies know what it was like for many of us--when clintoon was "president" he wasn't mine for eight years--but he was and taxed the hell out of us. Silly crapheads, get a life and grow up. "Gays" must be as a whole the most selfish, silliest, and full of nonsense people in this country--and will NEVER have credibility from me. I'm not homophobe--I'm not scared of them, their crap and their silly life choice--I'll never accept what they do as normal either.


28 posted on 11/13/2004 12:09:45 PM PST by BamaAndy (USMC vet against kerry.)
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To: elizabetty; MattMa
Here is a little history on the Loggies and their activities, and who has been receptive to their overtures in the GOP.

From Datalounge,

Log Cabin Republicans

The Log Cabin Republicans burst into the spotlight and the forefront of national politics in 1996 when GOP presidential candidate Sen. Robert Dole accepted, then returned (and then much later apologized for returning) the gay Republican contribution to his campaign.

Whether to accept the support of the Log Cabin Republicans has since become something of a dilemma for every Republican candidate running for state and national office, and the race for the presidential nomination in 2000 has proved no different.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) accepted an early invitation from Log Cabin, meeting with them in November 1999. The meeting broke little new political ground, with McCain voicing his continued opposition to several key gay rights issues, but the Senator did say he supported an end to discrimination.

Asked to comment on John McCain's recent meeting, Republican front-runner George W. Bush touched off a public skirmish with the group when he said he would "probably not" meet with the group because it would create a "huge political nightmare."

Rich Tafel, who heads the Log Cabin group said in response "It is a very bad sign for a man who wants to be president to say, 'I'm not going to meet with people who don't agree with me.'"

Tafel warned that failure to win an endorsement from the gay Republican group in the 2000 election would cost the candidate not only gay votes but also the support of millions of moderate swing voters who take issue with the GOP's social conservatism.

Source: Datalounge on Log Cabins.

Now, keeping in mind what George Bush said at the time during the primaries, take a look at this:

The GOP also sent Republican strategist Mary Matalin of CNN's Crossfire program around town with a message of Republican gay inclusiveness.

Following a Log Cabin Republicans/Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund/Human Rights Campaign reception [during the 2000 GOP national convention] for 300 Republican politicos and gay delegates and activists, Matalin told this reporter: "The epiphany for me is that people have some objection to homosexuality. They say it somehow hurts the traditional family. How? I'm advocating what I know to be the conservative philosophy. If you respect the individual, if you're about individual liberties and freedoms and all that stuff, you can't say, 'Except for that group or except for that person.' It's just so unjust and so unfair and so illogical. Illogic and unfairness offend me."

Matalin added that she favors gay marriage "because it's logical."

"You want to reduce promiscuity, you want to enhance stability -- duh, marriage, OK?" she said.

Gays have felt unwelcome in the Republican party, Matalin said, because "we shut them out. We turned out our hearts. That can happen no more -- that the loud voice of a few suffocates the big voice of the many," she said. "Our gathering here [at this reception] does mark, hopefully permanently, the end of the culture-wars rhetoric."......

..... Following his April meeting with gays, Bush said: "The meeting was a wide-ranging discussion on issues. I'm a better person for the meeting. I enjoyed it. I welcome gay Americans into my campaign."

Article archived here:
August, 2000, Rex Wockner article for 365Gay.com, "Did the GOP Reach Out to Gays?"

So, having sent openly gay GOP Representative Jim Kolbe of Arizona to the speaker's podium at the 2000 convention, Bush followed up by meeting the Log Cabins publicly. The Christian Coalition did not get their meeting with Bush; instead, they got Karl Rove as a stand-in, while Bush's people were across town, advancing him with the Loggies and the HRC.

After that, and even after endorsing the marriage amendment and giving up the Log Cabins' endorsement this year, Bush immediately sent another, similar signal at the victory celebration when the Bush and Cheney families came out to greet the celebrating Pubbies: along came Mary -- and her girlfriend.

Looked like a signal to me!

Oh, and take a look at the in-house GOP gay organization, the Republican Unity Coalition, whose website is here:

RUC News.

The site hasn't been active lately because of the falling-out over DOMA and the federal marriage amendment, but there is some useful information about personalities and a profile of the man responsible for George W. Bush's squishiness on homosexuality, old personal friend Charles Francis. There is a vita of Francis under the "People" tab.


29 posted on 11/13/2004 12:34:22 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus
Oops, left a tag open -- sorry!
30 posted on 11/13/2004 12:36:30 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: xJones

Until Stone's "Alexander" tanks (notwithstanding Rosario Dawson's first nude scene") because of the gay make-out scene.

And the upcoming "Brokeback Mountain" this summer tanks for the same reason.


31 posted on 11/14/2004 9:04:53 AM PST by Sam the Sham
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