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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who proposed inclusion of pro-equality language in the 2012 Republican Party platform, the final document is marred by outdated social conservative ideology.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 cant 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.
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Seriously, what were the LCR's expecting?
tanyev
(42,514 posts)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
(2,479 posts)Unhappy with the Colonial.
MinneapolisMatt
(1,550 posts)DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)If you're a republican, same-sex marriage is obviously not a priority of yours'.
brooklynite
(94,302 posts)...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
(41,694 posts)GodlessBiker
(6,314 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)mucifer
(23,466 posts)They care more about their money than their own rights.
BeyondGeography
(39,341 posts)America's Taliban has no place for you, LCR's. It's all over but the pretending.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)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
(2,940 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)I'm sure they can cry in the support group with the Jewish Nazis, Black Klansmen and Chickens for Col. Sanders.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)The LCR are a classic case study of that.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I see the future of the Repuke Party...and it's oblivion.
kysrsoze
(6,019 posts)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
(33,688 posts)the day after someone throws a baseball into the air and it flies to the moon.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...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
(12,325 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)I'm shocked.
11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)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
(4,035 posts)and turkeys are disappointed with Thanksgiving!
Dustlawyer
(10,494 posts)their money over their rights!
TlalocW
(15,373 posts)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
(36,246 posts)Deal with it.
CanonRay
(14,080 posts)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
(39,215 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)I wonder if there is enough time before the election? Those who are left, in the GOP have fallen off the deep end..
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)Lex
(34,108 posts)Teh dumb. It hurts.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)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
(24,391 posts)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
(20,450 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,494 posts)muthafuckas.
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)Fucking idiots. Well, they're still Republicans at the end of the gay so it's not surprising.
frylock
(34,825 posts)nope, can't seem to do it.
ProfessorGAC
(64,827 posts)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