Posted on 11/14/2010 3:38:40 PM PST by kristinn
A gay conservative group and some Tea Party leaders are campaigning to keep social issues off the Republican agenda.
In a letter to be released Monday, the group GOProud and leaders from groups like the Tea Party Patriots and the New American Patriots, will urge Republicans in the House and Senate to keep their focus on shrinking the government.
"On behalf of limited-government conservatives everywhere, we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the Tea Party movement," they write to presumptive House Speaker John Boehner and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell in an advance copy provided to POLITICO. "This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue."
The letter's signatories range from GOProud's co-founder and Chairman Christopher Barron a member of a group encouraging Dick Cheney to run for president and who has been known to post images of his bare torso to Twitter to Tea Party leaders with no particular interest in the gay rights movement.
As of Sunday evening, the letter had 17 signatories. They include tea party organizers, conservative activists and media personalities from across the country, including radio host Tammy Bruce, bloggers Bruce Carroll, Dan Blatt and Doug Welch, and various local coordinators for the Tea Party Patriots and other tea party groups.
"When they were out in the Boston Harbor, they weren't arguing about who was gay or who was having an abortion," said Ralph King, a letter signatory who is a Tea Party Patriots national leadership council member, as well as an Ohio co-coordinator.
King said he signed onto the letter because GOProud seemed to be genuine in pushing for fiscal conservatism and limited government.
"Am I going to be the best man at a same sex-marriage wedding? That's not something I necessarily believe in," said King. "I look at myself as pretty socially conservative. But that's not what we push through the Tea Party Patriots."
That indifference is essentially the point of the gay conservative group.
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TEXT OF LETTER
Dear Senator McConnell and Representative Boehner
On behalf of limited government conservatives everywhere we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the Tea Party movement.
Poll after poll confirms that the Tea Partys laser focus on issues of economic freedom and limited government resonated with the American people on Election Day. The Tea Party movement galvanized around a desire to return to constitutional government and against excessive spending, taxation and government intrusion into the lives of the American people.
The Tea Party movement is a non-partisan movement, focused on issues of economic freedom and limited government, and a movement that will be as vigilant with a Republican-controlled Congress as we were with a Democratic-controlled Congress.
This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue, nor should it be interpreted as a political blank check.
Already, there are Washington insiders and special interest groups that hope to co-opt the Tea Partys message and use it to push their own agenda particularly as it relates to social issues. We are disappointed but not surprised by this development. We recognize the importance of values but believe strongly that those values should be taught by families and our houses of worship and not legislated from Washington, D.C.
We urge you to stay focused on the issues that got you and your colleagues elected and to resist the urge to run down any social issue rabbit holes in order to appease the special interests.
The Tea Party movement is not going away and we intend to continue to hold Washington accountable. Sincerely,
Christopher R Barron
Chairman of the Board, GOProud
Andrew Ian Dodge
Coordinator, Maine Tea Party Patriots
Pam Stevenson
Coordinator, Arizona Tea Party Patriots
Dianna Greenwood
Executive Director, New American Patriots (Ashland, OH)
Jim Mason II
Chairman and State Coordinator, Nebraskas Tea Party Patriots
Ralph King
Co-coordinator Cleveland Tea Party Patriots
Co-coordinator State of Ohio Tea Party Patriots
Jack Lien
Coordinator, Tea Party Patriots of Great Malls (Montana)
Tammy Bruce
National Radio Talk Show Host
JP Weber
Coordinator, Annapolis (Maryland) Tea Party
Doug Welch,
Blogger and member Southern Illinois Tea Party
Bruce Carroll
Conservative Activist and Blogger
Pam Stout
Coordinator, Sandpoint Idaho Tea Party Patriots
Dan Blatt
Conservative Activist and Blogger
Everett Wilkinson
Coordinator, Florida Tea Party
Jimmy LaSalvia
Executive Director, GOProud
Paul Crockett
President Santa Clara (California) Tea Party
David Thor Andreasen
Cumberland County (Maine) Tea Party
Count me in with you. The Republicans start pushing abortion, we part company. We divorce.
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1. The vacation plans were jackwagoned.2. I can't believe he messed up the vacation plans, what a jackwagon!
Jun 22, 2005jackwaggonA giant dumbass who doesnt know anything. Who would quite possibly get everyone killed because of his stupidity
man: bob what are you doing
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man: you damn jackwaggon
Oct 25, 2010
” Liberals ALWAYS claim that social conservatives are trying to impose a “theocracy” any time we suggest that abortion and sodomy are immoral. “
The same clowns who believe it is “separation OF church FROM all!
He/She is not available to respond.
= vote for Romney, etc
You’re welcome! :-)
It was making the rounds on Facebook a few weeks ago, I was stunned when I watched it. Awesome animations!
Looks like I missed all the fun. Haha. Every once in a while there’s a really good thread to separate the real deal from the imposters.
A little FR housecleaning was in order.
SnakeDoc
Yeah, I noticed that a little bit further down thread.
*sigh*
But there’s more where he came from.
;-)
I know. Too many.
Janet Napolitano was asked if TSS would pat down Muslim women in burkas like they are going to do everyone else. Her response was that she needed to study that issue and she would get back with them.
Social issues are at the forefront of what Obama and the socialists are pushing. If the newly elected Congress is too timid to take them on, then the Socialists and Terrorists win by default.
agreed. They7 too are part of the Repugnant Party!
You’re welcome. And thank you for your patience. It’s been a pleasure talking to you. ;-}
You know I have a 14 yr old daughter in public school ...”not by my choice”...you must have heard the teens talk ...when something is bad,, they say.... “thats so gay”...as a group they continually daily reenforce that “gay” behavior is disfuntional...they do this naturally.They dont need to be told...and being told what to think ...just solidifies the issue for them.
Marriage...has no business being a gov. issue...the state is concerned in it only as a method by which to monitor, tax and control U.S....Havent we had enough?
I know from my own experiance about abortion...I supported it done to avoid condemnation from my ultra conservative christian family... my life is much smaller than it could have been.
Making it illegal wont help...the gypsys and the chineese induce abortion...by simple rythmic pounding on the girls abdomin.
Government control..of this situation is not possable.
But by Attempting to control it, the door is opened for All Manner of Social Control.
Like the health care bill.
gltu
LCR is not exactly a conservative group, anyhow, so Im not sure why the article painted them as such.
Considering that Politico, where this article was found, is the same politico that labels Barack Obama as a moderate, as well as McCain and Mitt Romney as conservatives? Would it surprise you then, that Log Cabin Republicans get the “conservative” label from Politico?
I’m a pretty homophobic guy, and quite sure I don’t agree with a lot of the social agenda of gay fiscal conservatives. But if I do happen to agree with them on size of government issues, why wouldn’t I cooperate with them on those issues?
Temporary alliances are most certainly possible. However, the main problem is that the exact budgetary/fiscal issues are anything but simple to get an exact agreement on which causes are we going to change? Are we going to get a ban on federally funded abortions? Who would be willing to at least bring into honest question the way our funding for medical research grants into better treatments for cancers, AIDS, what about figuring ways to promote or discourage, rather than try to mandate, various bad behaviors that can increase one’s own risk of developing or contracting various diseases that we pay to try and treat and/or cure?
All I am saying, and trying to make sense about here, is that the real questions and possible solutions to the fiscal issues are tough, and divisive, along social lines. The two are not entirely separate, because the solutions would be divisive along the lines of one’s moral convictions. I agree with you otherwise that yes, sometimes temporary alliances may happen, but in the end, the real solutions are divisive, and this is largely why some matters are truly untouchable to numerous politicians.
He will make losers like McCain and Lugar look like Helms though.
Exactly...
I think its much more than bankruptcy...And we are out of time...The chins army is bigger than the pop. of our country.
“The gov cannot be neutral. Either abortion is legal or it is illegal. Either homosexuals can be all over the place in the schools and military, or they cannot.”
Would social issues be easier to conquer nation wide or one state at at time?
“How exactly does government do that without separating itself from the people and the rule of law? You miss the big picture...”
I support state rights. These issues should be decided on a state level.
“You support tyranny and a state religion being impose -you just do not realize it...”
Completely opposite in fact. If the federal government steps in and dictates social mandates across the board for all states, there is tyranny.
“Are you going to remain a useful idiot?”
Screw you.
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