Posted on 06/02/2003 9:04:07 PM PDT by Mister Magoo
Mary Cheney ducks out of GOP gay group Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, has resigned from the board of the Republican Unity Coalition slightly more than one year after taking on the largely honorary post with the gay-straight political alliance.
Cheney, who once marketed beer to the gay and lesbian community as an employee of the Coors Brewing Co. of Golden, Colo., has been one of the few key gay rights supporters with close ties to the White House. "Working together, we can expand the Republican Party's outreach to nontraditional Republicans," she said in a statement when she signed on with RUC in April 2002. "We can make sexual orientation a nonissue for the Republican Party, and we can help achieve equality for all gay and lesbian Americans." She made no public statements about her departure, and she did not respond to calls from The Advocate regarding it. In the past she has labored to stay out of the political limelight and to avoid becoming a lightning rod for criticism, pro and con, over gay rights in the contentious GOP.
A source close to the Cheney family said Mary Cheney's resignation from RUC will allow her to pursue business interests in her home state of Colorado, where she lives with her partner, Heather Poe. But some gay activists suggest that there may be more behind the decision, since it comes on the heels of protests from the religious right regarding pro-gay comments by GOP chairman Marc Racicot. "Leaders of the extreme right are demanding that the GOP back away from any association with the gay community," said David Smith, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington, D.C., gay rights group. "The Right is calling into question what little outreach the party had to gay voters at the crossroads of an election season. While I can't speculate on the reasons for her decision, Mary Cheney's departure definitely comes at an interesting time."
The RUC--which was founded and is chaired by Charles Francis, an openly gay friend of President Bush--also recently announced that David Rockefeller, the 87-year-old scion of the liberal Republican family, would join the group's board.
Its not just about tax cuts, its also about whats right and whats wrong.
Not likely, it'll be a democrat party and a green party. The republican party, does have a social wing that is quite different from the democrats, its pro-life, its pro-religion, if people can't see a difference between the 2 parties, they will choose the original, and differentiate with the extreme.
The republican party can't abandon a large solid part of its base, for a smaller part of somone elses and hope to win.
Maybe because “the party” shouldn’t be concerned with special rights for chosen behavior. Smaller government isn’t a riddle. We will welcome them for reparation and healing in faith-based or non-faith-based organizations but giving them ANY political accommodation is contrary to everyone but Liberaltarians.
In order to do this we pubbies are gonna have to give up the strong Judeo-Christian base of our party. I ain't interested, how 'bout you?
*"Nonissue" is a code word for shrugging your shoulders.^ Something else I'm not keen on.
"At the core of the program was a media campaign to change the way the average citizens viewed homosexuality by desensitizing them concerning homosexuals and homosexual rights."
It's not contrary to Bush's thinking.
One doesn't have to agree with a group to accept their vote or support.
That's Ronald Reagan's accommodation, and it's pretty wise.
Sexual orientation should be a non-issue for the GOP.
What political accommodation is Bush giving?
It was until gay activists made it an issue.
He's gladly accepting their votes.
Reagan didn't bend to anyone, they bent to him. Politically speaking, as I said before, it is not logical, to alienate a large solid part of your base, for a smaller part of somone else's base.
If the democrats went about trying to expand the base by appealing to eastern european immigrants, they would alienate the minority part of there own base. To do such would be foolish.
Right, the GOP should not recognize a behavioral pathology in any plank of their platform other than for reparation and treatment.
Out of curiosity, outside of economic issues, what would the difference then be, between the GOP and the democratic party? Abortion and thats it I assume?
He gladly accepts votes from incestuals too for that matter.
It doesn't.
The GOP is not into "fixing" gays, either, as the track record for "reparation and treatment" is pretty poor.
Or from dimwits, as your vote in 2000 attested.
Nope. Just look at who's in the Democrat party.
Pretty big difference, if you ask me.
It may be but you wouldn't know unless you have some statistics no one else has. Either way, like for drug addicts, we should offer them help if they seek it.
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