Log Cabin Republicans unhappy with 'antigay marriage plank' proposed for GOP convention

[maddezmom]

Log Cabin Republicans are unhappy with what Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper calls "an antigay marriage plank" proposed this week for the upcoming national Republican Party convention in Tampa.
Here's the Log Cabin news release:

Platform Debates Reveal Generational Divide Among Fellow Conservatives

(Tampa, FL) – While Log Cabin Republicans commend the delegates who proposed inclusion of pro-equality language in the 2012 Republican Party platform, the final document is marred by outdated social conservative ideology.

“Tony Perkins may be boasting today about having written an antigay marriage plank into the Republican Party platform, but it will be a hollow and short-lived victory,” said Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper. “The obsessive exclusion of gay couples, including military families, from the rights and responsibilities of marriage, combined with bizarre rhetoric about ‘hate campaigns’ and ‘the homosexual rights agenda’ are clear signs of desperation among social conservatives who know that public opinion is rapidly turning in favor of equality.

Unfortunately, what voters can’t see in this document is the significant debate within the Committee. We were pleased to see vigorous debate on amendments in support of civil unions and to delete language regarding DOMA. While these measures failed, the future direction of our party clearly trends toward inclusion. This may well be the last time a platform will cater to the likes of the Family Research Council on marriage, and the fact is, platforms rarely influence policy. Tony will never see his discrimination written into the United States Constitution.”

Cooper continued, “Together with Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry, Log Cabin Republicans are proud to have encouraged this important debate at the Republican National Convention. Only by being in the room and speaking conservative to conservative will we succeed in building a stronger and more inclusive Republican party.

Read more here: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2012/08/log-cabin-republicans-unhappy-with-antigay-marriage-plank-proposed-for-gop-convention.html#storylink=cpy

Seriously, what were the LCR's expecting?

[tanyev]

1. "Only by being in the room and speaking conservative to conservative will we succeed

in building a stronger and more inclusive Republican party."


Psst! You do know they do most of their work when you're not in the room, right?

[liberalmike27]

26. Chickens

Unhappy with the Colonial.

[MinneapolisMatt]

2. LCRs can go to hell.

[DainBramaged]

3. Too stupid for their own good

[sadbear]

4. Boo hoo hoo!

If you're a republican, same-sex marriage is obviously not a priority of yours'.

[brooklynite]

5. But thy're not considering the GOOD news...

...between the lower taxes and what they'll save not having to pay for weddings, they'll all be RICH! Which was always the point of being a Republican, wasn't it?

[hobbit709]

6. Any gay person, woman, or working class person that votes R is cutting their own throat

[GodlessBiker]

7. Well, at least they are unhappy. The GOProud putzes probably aren't even bothered by it.

[COLGATE4]

8. File under "No shit, Sherlock" nt

[mucifer]

9. I'm convinced they are wealthy greedy asses.

They care more about their money than their own rights.

[BeyondGeography]

10. And Todd Akin says hello

America's Taliban has no place for you, LCR's. It's all over but the pretending.

[hifiguy]

11. Yet they will continue writing checks

and pulling the levers for Repig candidates.

Face it, LCRs, there are people in your party who would happily have you stoned to death in the name of their idiot god.

[Lucy Goosey]

12. Forgive me if I have a hard time mustering up any sympathy for them

[MrSlayer]

13. How sad.

I'm sure they can cry in the support group with the Jewish Nazis, Black Klansmen and Chickens for Col. Sanders.

[steve2470]

14. People wonder why some vote against their best interests

The LCR are a classic case study of that.

[joeybee12]

15. Log Cabin Repukes are freaking idiots...

I see the future of the Repuke Party...and it's oblivion.

[kysrsoze]

16. But they'll gladly continue to take the beatings

Must be some masochistic thing. My Log Cabin friend explains that they are trying to change that aspect of the party... Yeah, good luck with that. I always ask him how he can continue to support a party that has demonized him and his peeps for decades. He always changes the subject.

[hifiguy]

29. They will "change the party" in that respect

the day after someone throws a baseball into the air and it flies to the moon.

[truebrit71]

17. In a party choc-a-block full of idiots, the log-cabins are the most idiotic...

...What is it about "they fucking hate your guts and if they could stone you to death in public squares every sunday morning before going to church they would" don't you get???

The cognitive dissonance is simply staggering...

[warrior1]

18. what a sorry bunch

[WilliamPitt]

19. Really.

I'm shocked.

[11 Bravo]

20. Fuck 'em! They made their bed, now they can lie in it (but not with each other).

[99Forever]

21. Split personality much?

Cripes, how fucking dumb do you have to be, to be Gay and a TeapubliKKKan both?

Get a clue. Your "peeps" you vote for, HATE you.

[KitSileya]

22. And in other news, chickens are unhappy with Colonel Sanders,

and turkeys are disappointed with Thanksgiving!

[Dustlawyer]

23. By staying with the Repugs, they have made a choice amount their interests. They obviously value

their money over their rights!

[TlalocW]

24. Stockholm Syndrome Is Weird

Someone needs to sit down with these morons and show them - either nationally or on an individual basis, if possible - how much better the country/they do under democrats because the only reason I can think for them to stay in the GOP is some myth that the republicans handle the economy better. If that still doesn't convince them, then they're probably a bunch of John Galt-wannabes, worshiping at the shrine of Ayn Rand so fuck 'em.

TlalocW

[eppur_se_muova]

25. Dear LCR: The GOP is NEVER going to accept you. NEVER.

Deal with it.

[CanonRay]

27. As long as I live, I'll never understand Log Cabin Republicans

How can any gay person be in that party? They don't even acknowledge gay people have a right to exist...they want to "fix" them.

[jwirr]

28. Honestly - what did they expect? Their fellow gop members did not hide their attitudes.

[AsahinaKimi]

30. maybe they should consider becoming Democrats...

I wonder if there is enough time before the election? Those who are left, in the GOP have fallen off the deep end..

[DonRedwood]

31. you got me so mad i had to do an OP about this!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021179454#post2

[Lex]

32. Bless their hearts.

Teh dumb. It hurts.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

33. Honestly....too fucking bad

The answer to the problem is simple....they are too fucking stupid to get it....THEY HATE YOU AND YOU ARE NOT WANTED.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

34. There's one party that is still around that endorses everything the LCR seem to care about

Too bad they can't disconnect themselves from Republican BS about taxes, regulation, etc. They ought to realize that if they would rather continue to vote Republican, then they are making a conscious choice to do so despite the adverse consequences it will have on their ability to obtain/maintain employment, marry, visit their partners in the hospital, etc. The LCR is a farce IMHO.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

35. Deal with it, suckers!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

36. They can all go fuck themselves. Oh wat that's probably against the "platform" too. Token ass

muthafuckas.

[NYC Liberal]

37. And yet they attacked Obama when he said he supported marriage equality.

Fucking idiots. Well, they're still Republicans at the end of the gay so it's not surprising.

[frylock]

38. trying real hard to give a shit..

nope, can't seem to do it.

[ProfessorGAC]

39. File This Under "Well, Duh!"

To use a hackneyed saying, "Lay down with dogs, and you're going to get fleas." They were stupid to align themselves with the Republiban anyway.
GAC