Log Cabin Republicans are just... gawd, awful bizarre.

[shcrane71]

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/09/481318/lcr-obama-marriage/?mobile=nc

Log Cabin Republicans: Obama Announcing Support For Marriage Equality Is ‘Offensive And Callous’

By Zack Ford on May 9, 2012 at 3:42 pm

The Log Cabin Republicans’ R. Clarke Cooper was quick to try to discredit Obama’s announcement supporting marriage equality today, calling it “cold comfort” and “offensive and callous” in the immediate wake of Amendment One’s passage in North Carolina:

COOPER: That the president has chosen today, when LGBT Americans are mourning the passage of Amendment One, to finally speak up for marriage equality is offensive and callous. Log Cabin Republicans appreciate that President Obama has finally come in line with leaders like Vice President Dick Cheney on this issue, but LGBT Americans are right to be angry that this calculated announcement comes too late to be of any use to the people of North Carolina, or any of the other states that have addressed this issue on his watch. This administration has manipulated LGBT families for political gain as much as anybody, and after his campaign’s ridiculous contortions to deny support for marriage equality this week he does not deserve praise for an announcement that comes a day late and a dollar short.

Though LCR claims not to endorse candidates, this absurd attack suggests the group would rather stand with Mitt Romney, who has pledged to support a federal marriage amendment banning same-sex marriage nationwide. Coming from a group whose mission is to “secure full equality for gays and lesbians,” this is a stunning example of petty partisan politics.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. WTF? Are those people insane?

[Scuba]

2. The saddest part?

They've been practicing what they would say.

[targetpractice]

3. Cooper must have reconsidered...

...because he said nothing like this on Hardball. On the air, he said it was a positive moment for LGBT folk.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Why are there even Log Cabin republicans?

Why would a gay person be a republican in the first place?

[marybourg]

5. How do we know they really are gay.

Maybe it's an astro turf group, set up from above, hoping to attract the oddball gay publican. Like how many could there really be? And would they say what these jerks are saying?

[edcantor]

6. Nice fantasy! Astro turf Republican gay folks

I am afraid there are really a few tens of thousands of financially successful people who are gay who got there because they never really thought about anyone but their own interests, much like most Republicans, and a small percentage of Republicans are gay.

By the way, are there any Lesbian members of the Log Cabin Republicans? I have never seen one, but I don't know everything, so I might have missed them.

Don't lesbians have an opinion about birth control, abortion, rape? I think most if not all do. How could any lesbian be a Log Cabin Republican in this day and age?

[shcrane71]

7. The only LCR I've ever met are men, and I find your assessment to be accurate.

I think it would be EXTREMELY difficult for a LCR lesbian to find anyone to date. But then again, Dick Cheney's daughter found someone. Things that make you go hmmm...

[edcantor]

13. Personally I find it hard to believe ANY woman can be

a Republican, unless they are as brain dead as Sarah Palin, or Michele Bachmann.

But I guess a few milllion women ARE Republicans, and I can't, for the life of me, understand why there are so many.

I also suspect that most Republican women are married to a man, or a daughter of Republican parents who has just not even bothered to think about anyone's interests but her own.

[MNBrewer]

8. If you think LCRs are bizarre, check out ..

no, I can't push any attention to them. Suffice it to say, there's a republican gay group far to the right of LCR. LCR is practically democratic compared to them.

[HillWilliam]

9. I'll say it, because this gets thrown up (by str8 people, usually)

whenever 2Am/carry plus gays gets discussed. I subscribed to the P*nk Pisstoffs, uh pistols list for a while. They may be gay, but they are fucking crazier than regular teafreaks (which starts a full ten points crazier than a shithouse rat). They hate the POTUS with a purple passion and I'll give you a half a guess why. Nasty racist bunch and it makes my teeth itch every time some well-meaning str8 person suggests that group.

[MNBrewer]

10. No, not them

the GOProuders... (gag)

a stranger collection of people I've never seen. Ernst Rohm would have been proud.

[HillWilliam]

11. Well, we're both assured that right of center

there's an endless supply of crazy. Too bad we can't tap it for renewable energy.

[MNBrewer]

12. I can deal with "right of center"

It's bat shit crazy, pre-historic, bronze age mythology believing, "we don't need no stinkin' critical thinking", "protect marriage for the White Race", "it's just the way I was raised" faction that I have a problem with. (see Bachmann, Michele.)