Gay republicans say its hard to back Bush

[JoFerret]

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/8459624.ht...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Gay Republicans are stung by President Bush's support for a ban on same-sex marriages and are divided over where to turn in November, with many weighing party loyalty against outrage.

"I'm going to have a hard time going with Bush. In my good conscience, I don't know how I can support him," said Shawn Gardner, one of several hundred party members attending this weekend's annual convention of the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP organization that backed Bush in 2000.

"It's difficult for me to reconcile him having turned his back on an organization that supported him," said Gardner, who was among an estimated 1 million gays who voted for the president four years ago.

Many gays see the proposed amendment banning gay marriage as an assault on equal rights.

The Log Cabin Republicans have aired 30-second TV ads in several states featuring Vice President Dick Cheney and a remark he made in a debate four years ago: "People should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into."

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Don't know why they ever did but all erosion helps.

[Bertha Venation]

1. In other news, Jack Ruby murders Lee Harvey Oswald . . . .

[MikeG]

2. ROTFL - You just made me inhale my drink.

[SmokeyBlues]

3. Lazy con

"It's difficult for me to reconcile him having turned his back on an organization that supported him," said Gardner, who was among an estimated 1 million gays who voted for the president four years ago.

Hey Shawn! What you and other Log Cabin Republicans are currently experiencing has been around for a long time. It's called the lazy con and I learned how it worked when I was a boy growing up in the South End of Boston many years ago.

Sheesh!

[skooooo]

5. Ok, two questions...

What's "log cabin republicans", and what is the "lazy con"?

[theHandpuppet]

9. Log Cabin Republicans...

... and organization of gay Repukes... although the only cabin I think they're familiar with is Uncle Tom's Cabin.

See: http://www.logcabin.org/logcabin/index.html

[skooooo]

10. omg

[LiberalFighter]

19. Strange that their site is down

[jonnyblitz]

4. well DUH

smart bunch aren't they...geezuz FUCKING christ...

[jeanmarc]

17. Same reaction...what a bunch of dumbasses.[nt]

[yardwork]

18. Ditto (I've always wanted to say that!)

[freetobegay]

6. They may be my Gay brothers...

But they are about as smart s Nader Supporters!

[TroglodyteScholar]

7. Odd that you found that article in the Macon Telegraph...

...Macon isn't exactly a bastion of gayness.

[K8-EEE]

8. Gays Who Back Bush

Um....why the HELL would they vote for someone who panders to the minority of Americans who think they are sub-human and should have NO rights at all?

Seriously! I've seen those RW-ers go on about the "homosexual agenda" what sense does that term even MAKE? Do I have a "female heterosexual agenda??" It's all just bizarre to me, the way they think.

I had a penpal in Baghdad whose wife was Reserves and also stationed in Iraq -- their three kids were being raised by grandparents for over a year, however, it's the gays getting married that "threaten the family."

I wonder how many THOUSANDS of families, US and Iraqi, have been broken by this damned war.

[LiberalFighter]

20. When was the last time that a Republican candidate supported

gays? (Presidential)

Did Eisenhower?
Did Nixon?
Did Goldwater?
Did Reagan?
Did Bush I?

[cliss]

11. The next question would be,

why are they even staying in the Rim-publican party? This is the party by the intolerant, hypocrites, white anglo-saxon supremacists, fanatic right, bloated fatties who comprise the wealthiest in this country.

I read the book, Blinded by The Right. (forgot his name). It was an eye-opening look into the sordidness of the Rat-publican party. It was ugly, I tell you.

[demoman123]

12. Where does the term "Log Cabin Republican" come from?

Is it a reference to Lincoln? And why him?

[Terran]

14. It's supposed to be a reference

to the roots of the Republican Party, and their stated desire to 'change things from within.' Of course, Bush and the other neocons have shown that that is pure fantasy. Lincoln would spi on Bush.

[progressivebydesign]

13. If any LCR wants to know WHY precisely they SHOULDN'T be GOP?

All they have to do is visit a public forum, like Yahoo message boards, or perhaps FreeRepublic, or that Lucianne Goldberg's place.. look for a reference to the articles out today about their group... then read the comments of their FELLOW GOPers. That should be enough to make them run screaming to the Democratic Party. The rank and file GOP do not want them, any more than the GOP brass does. If they'd being GOP for financial reasons, they need to do some damn research. They will ALWAYS fair better when the grown-ups (dems) are in charge. Our tent is huge.. they need to join us, and stop all this dancing with the devil they've been doing.

[are_we_united_yet]

15. Ooooooohhhh....

We just can't make up our minds if we should vote for him. I mean he betrayed us and all.

Clueless Morans (freep spelling).

[mitchtv]

16. I had to hold Partner back today

they are having their convention here in PSP and he wanted to go throw rotten eggs. I told him I did NOT want to get arrested, they won't let you take your meds to jail. Interestingly Andrew Sullivan is appanertly backing JK.

[saigon68]

21. hard to back Bush

It's hard when the CHIMP'S own chief law enforcer would love to get his fat sausage fingered hands around their necks and Clamp them In Prison as Sodomites.