Posted on 04/15/2008 12:21:05 PM PDT by fweingart
Conservative activist Peter LaBarbera is urging GOP presidential nominee John McCain to cancel his plans to meet with leaders of the homosexual activist group known as the Log Cabin Republicans.
Although Senator McCain (R-Arizona) did not address the Log Cabin Republicans convention in San Diego over the weekend, he did send California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as his surrogate to address the event. CBS News chief political consultant Mark Ambinder, associate editor of TheAtlantic.com, reports that McCain plans to meet soon with executives of the Log Cabin Republicans.
LaBarbera, founder of the website Republicans for Family Values, says McCain should dump those plans. "I think this is significant. It was significant when George Bush ... met with the Log Cabin Federation before he became president -- and it doesn't surprise me that McCain is doing it. I think the danger is that when you try to be pro-homosexual and pro-family at the same time, it doesn't work," LaBarbera contends.
According to LaBarbera, McCain would be wise to distance himself from a group that "spews anti-Christian bigotry." That group's crusade in favor of homosexual "marriage," he argues, goes counter to the efforts of pro-family advocates who are fighting to protect marriage with constitutional amendments at the state and federal level.
"So, it becomes difficult for John McCain to say he's supporting efforts to protect marriage and also supporting the Log Cabin Republicans," LaBarbera points out. "I just think this is the problem with the 'big tent' [philosophy] in general in the Republican Party."
LaBarbera says he is not sure if McCain is seeking financial support from the Log Cabin Republicans or if he is expressing agreement with the group's ideology.
While meeting with the Log Cabin Republicans, Gov. Schwarzenegger pledged to oppose a proposed constitutional amendment banning homosexual "marriage" in the Golden State. "I think that [the marriage ban] will never happen in California," Schwarzenegger stated. "I will always be there to fight against that."
Acknowledging the Loggers seems to endorse their perverted and sinful style of 'making love.' Shoving one's pee-pee up anothers poo-poo is just wrong!
Let them roll their logs on over the the DNC....where they belong.
That just sounds so wrong...
Heck I acknowledge them, but it doesn’t mean I support them.
He isn’t going in there to tell them he will support gay marriage or any of that other liberal stuff, he will say I hope you support me and I will be the best president I can and lower your taxes, not raise them when things are looking dim.
Log cabin republicans are fiscally conservative while being socially liberal. Hell, if people can’t understand that you fight for every vote from every group that is willing to put your name on a ballot then they know crap about presidential elections then.
One of my best friends among fellow freepers is an intelligent, pro-troops, pro-American, arch-conservative who is a joy to be around.
She’s also a lesbian.
People are who they are. I’m just grateful for anyone who supports the ideals of liberty and patriotism and personal responsibility, and I’m not going to shun them for what they do in private.
I agree.
The very fact that they do what they do either in private or on a street corner is proof that in the final analysis they’re not wrapped too tight.
If LaBarbera doesn’t like he, she can vote for the Rat.
This might be our chance to demand some things from them as well: Stop the recruiting of our young people and maybe we will listen to your grievances. Force them to make a statement on the subject. What they are against as well as what they are for. It will make headlines, guaranteed.
She graduated near the top of her class at one of the toughest colleges in the country.
Then why would they vote Republican then, and be hated by their own kind? Jump over to the DUmp and see what they say about log cabin Republicans, they view them with more hatred than any other group of admitted Republicans, to them they are traitors.
If they want big brother and everything that comes with it plus they want all the social rights of the gays then they would never vote Republican. These people want better fiscal responsibility and to be left alone is all.
Oh yeah, he’ll fight for every vote except those of his base whom he continues to infuriate on a daily basis. I don’t have a problem with what homosexuals do in private either. It’s their public agenda I’m against. When gays speak against Christians they’re activists. When Christians speak against the homosexual agenda we’re bigots.
That's unusual.
I live in one of the most Gay-friendly areas in the US (Austin,TX.) and have many friends and acquaintances who are Gay. Most of them are left-leaners even, the older ones. Could just be most live in the People's Republic of Austin.
I have a friend I knew for years who finally came out of the closet, he is involved in the log cabin Republicans now.
We have talked about this many times, the gays that belong in this group are not the flaming in-your-face protester gays that are such an embarrassment to everyone, including them. They are the ones who admit they had a normal childhood, got through it okay and just want to be left alone.
They want their nieces and nephews to be raised like they were, or however their parents want them to be raised. They don’t want to pay high taxes and they want state’s rights to trump federal rights.
I don’t agree with all of his views, but we have more common ground when it comes to politics than not. McCaine isn’t going into S.F. to meet militant queers, he is going to meet employed businessmen and women who do keep it behind closed doors and want the rest of the idiots the press loves to focus on to do the same.
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