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Bush Appoints Four More Homosexual Activists
Culture and Family Institute ^ | Peter J. LaBarbera

Posted on 04/11/2002 2:33:55 PM PDT by BobRJones

Bush Appoints Four More Homosexual Activists

President Bush has appointed four more Republican homosexual activists to posts in his administration, a homosexual newspaper reports.

The four men are all active with the Republican “gay” activist group Log Cabin Republicans, according to the Washington Blade. They are, according to the Blade:

Asian affairs expert Mark Groombridge as a State Department special assistant to John Bolton, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security. Groombridge — a member of Log Cabin Republicans of D.C., and the homosexual libertarian group Gays & Lesbians for Individual Liberties — is a China specialist whose doctoral dissertation “examined the restructuring of China’s state-owned enterprises,” the Blade reported; Stephen Fong, former president of Log Cabin Republicans of San Francisco, to a post with the Federal Transit Administration, an arm of the Department of Transportation; Tod Burnett and Jim Wiggins to positions at the Environmental Protection Agency. Burnett is a former advisor to liberal Republican and former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan. The Blade reports that the White House did not mention the homosexuality of the latest four in officially announcing their appointments by the president.

White House press secretary Ari Fleischer has said that a person’s “sexual orientation” is irrelevant as long as he has the job qualifications for a position. But pro-family critics contend that the administration is pandering to homosexual activist Republicans and thus helping to “mainstream” homosexuality. Ironically, the Log Cabin Republicans strongly supported John McCain, and not Bush, during the GOP presidential primary, and even ran campaign ads against Bush.

Bush senior advisor Karl Rove is engaged in a political tightrope act — reaching out simultaneously to GOP homosexual activists and to the party’s conservative, pro-family grassroots, who oppose homosexuality as sinful.

Rove’s high-wire act may be getting more perilous. The Blade reports that homosexual columnist Hastings Wyman (who first reported the four “gay” appointments), citing Republican sources, says that “at least 15 more gay appointees are either in the Bush administration pipeline or are ‘slowly working their way out of the closet.’”

— Peter J. LaBarbera Culture and Family Institute http://cultureandfamily.org/report/2002-04-03/n_bush.shtml


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: appointments; bush; gays; homosexual
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To: Romulus
Ha ha ha ha ROTF LMAO!!!!

Man, you wanna post a three or four post warning before posting something like that. Geez I'm gonna be smelling coffee from my sinus' for weeks now.

21 posted on 04/11/2002 3:25:04 PM PDT by Lord_Baltar
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To: ellery
Much ado about nothing. Who cares what gender they like, as long as they can do the job?

I agree. It's not like these guys are wearing leather and chains to the office or doing anything else to embarrass the President or the country. Besides, the positions are not highly visible.

Gee, it seems for some, the only good homosexual is a dead one or one currently in religious training to "convert" them to being a heterosexual. Personnaly I would want to find something more fulfilling to do than peeping into other people's bedrooms.

22 posted on 04/11/2002 3:26:17 PM PDT by Dave S
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To: Leo the Lion
These Sodomite Deviants are now being supported by the taxpayers. I see nothing either admirable or honorable coming from these Sodomites.

I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public again. Ever hear of latent homosexuality?

23 posted on 04/11/2002 3:30:08 PM PDT by Dave S
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To: Trust but Verify
"No, but it apparently disqualifies you from making a living."

Oh no, just disqualifies one from a position requiring upright moral character and self-control. Hairdresser, interior decorator, entertainer, writer, stock analyst, or professional wrestler are some examples of appropriate professions.

Now, I've met some nice gay guys. I've also known nice alcoholics, coke heads, obsessive hand-washers, and manic depressives. None would be my first choice for a position of authority, responsibility, and self-control.

24 posted on 04/11/2002 3:30:30 PM PDT by Tauzero
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To: BobRJones
I knew it wasn't my fault for opposing Bush so strongly during the election. Oh course, now that he is President I have come to like him very much. But actions like this on behalf of Bush prevent me from feeling too guilty for so strongly opposing him prior to becoming President. But like I said, now that he is President, I find him to be very likable. I just wish he would have some more of the kind of guts that Reagan had, and resist the urge to pander to certain people.
25 posted on 04/11/2002 3:30:45 PM PDT by Buchanan mama
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To: Buchanan mama
Yes, I, too found his pandering to the steel unions and the rust belt very disturbing. I also am having problems with pressing Israel to allow terrorism in her borders while we pander to the very Arabs who attacked the WTC. Hiring qualified gays to public service is the least of his flaws, IMO.
27 posted on 04/11/2002 3:35:48 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: Buchanan mama
I just wish he would have some more of the kind of guts that Reagan had, and resist the urge to pander to certain people.

You don't think Reagan appointed gays to government positions? I'll bet even Buchanan had a gay or two in his campaign.

28 posted on 04/11/2002 3:36:55 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: Leo the Lion
See #27.
29 posted on 04/11/2002 3:37:32 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: Leo the Lion
These Sodomite Deviants are now being supported by the taxpayers. I see nothing either admirable or honorable coming from these Sodomites. If a private industry wants to hire the deviant at least I can boycott them. As a taxpayer all I can do is point out their predaliction to engage in deviant behavior nd wonder if this good for children to see as a role model. Nothing says I have to like paying taxes to support deviance.

Role model for children? Are you saying these sodomites are having sex at the office? If that was so, it wouldnt make any difference what their orientation, they should be fired. So whats your point?

30 posted on 04/11/2002 3:41:33 PM PDT by Dave S
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To: DallasDeb
Amen!
31 posted on 04/11/2002 3:42:22 PM PDT by NewsGal
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To: Leo the Lion
As a taxpayer all I can do is point out their predaliction to engage in deviant behavior nd wonder if this good for children to see as a role model.

Do children actually see people in government cubicles? And, if they did see them, would the gay people be doing gay things?

I wouldn't let you Pharisees who hate gay people around MY kids, I'll tell you that.

32 posted on 04/11/2002 3:46:44 PM PDT by sinkspur
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To: BobRJones
Quite frankly, a pattern is forming...

These appointments can be seen as "pandering" to gays, just as the Bush Administration is pandering to new Mexican voters by supercedeing and bypassing Immigration laws and regs, pandering to the Drunken Senator, Dems and the NEA, and pandering to proponents of CFR.

But then again although this RINO President's approval rating is hovering at around 80%, there still are 20% left to win over by the election of 2004.

33 posted on 04/11/2002 3:54:22 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: Blackyce
Bush trying to out do the Clinton's trying to make Queers appear normal. And a lot of you Call Bush Moral?
34 posted on 04/11/2002 4:00:17 PM PDT by Texbob
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To: BobRJones
Welcome to the all happy "Two-Party Cartel". They called ol Willie, "Slick" but this GW makes Slick look like a school yard boy among men. You will see just how far left this country will be when GW leaves & I expect as things are going you will give him a big favorable rating. Just shows ya the shallowness of the public. Off subject but couldn't GW have done something to retract this nation from the World Court? By golly if it had been an oil pipeline that Slick had opposed by signature, ol GW would have found a way to negate that.
35 posted on 04/11/2002 4:03:00 PM PDT by Digger
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To: gcruse
I assume they were not unemployed to begin with so no one would be denying them employment. There is no way I believe they were the best people for the job and just happened to be gay. They were stategically chosen for political purposes. In that case the goal is to normalize immorality. That is very different from a private matter. No one is saying "We are hiring these adulterers and we are proud of it because they are so qualified for the job so who cares if they are cheating on their wife..." If they advertise their sexuality then let them get a job in the private sector. Bush is wrong on this one and he is aiding the normalization of a very abnormal and harmful behavior.

You wouldn't say "So what if he uses cocaine" or "so what if he mutilates his body" or any other harmful to self act. Bush is a fool.

36 posted on 04/11/2002 4:05:05 PM PDT by RAT Patrol
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To: Dave S
Personnaly I would want to find something more fulfilling to do than peeping into other people's bedrooms.

If Queerdom would keep its activities confined to the bedroom you might have a point. But "Gay Pride" parades, Day(s) of Silence, Queer As Folk and Queer Duck just prove that, as Robert Bork wrote, we're Slouching Towards Gomorrah. We could also talk about queer attacks on the Boy Scouts of America and AIDS deaths of innocent hemophiliacs. But, nevermind, enjoy the Slouch.

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37 posted on 04/11/2002 4:07:06 PM PDT by JCG
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To: Dave S
No one is denying them their freedom. However, most presidents appoint people of like-minded political views. These appointments say Bush agrees with their gay agenda.
38 posted on 04/11/2002 4:07:08 PM PDT by RAT Patrol
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To: RAT Patrol
 
You wouldn't say "So what if he uses cocaine" or
"so what if he mutilates his body" or any other harmful to self act.

You know, you may have a point.  All those smokers in
civil service are driving up health premiums.  Fire all
cigarette smokers for self-harm and hire no more.  </sarcasm>

39 posted on 04/11/2002 4:09:09 PM PDT by gcruse
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To: sinkspur
Since you brought religion up....are you gonna tell them like Jesus did "go and sin no more"?

Their is no way I believe you would approve of an appointment of a known and ongoing adulterer who would bring the "other woman" to government events. Your statements say that you think it is moral behavior.

40 posted on 04/11/2002 4:11:02 PM PDT by RAT Patrol
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