Director of Log Cabin Republicans: You can thank Mitt Romney for recent marriage equality gains

[DonViejo]

Gregory Angelo thinks Mitt Romney's 2012 defeat was a tipping point on gay marriage, not Barack Obama's reversal

BY KATIE MCDONOUGH

President Barack Obama publicly backed marriage equality in May 2012, reaffirmed his position in his second inaugural address and had his administration file pro-gay marriage briefs in both the Prop 8 and Defense of Marriage Act Supreme Court cases. In the months since, politicians from both parties have come out in support of gay marriage, and many advocates view the president’s reversal on equal marriage as a tipping point for other lawmakers, even among Republicans.

But not Gregory Angelo, the executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans. He credits Mitt Romney’s tone-deaf position on these issues and his crushing defeat in the 2012 election for slowly (seriously slowly) bringing the GOP around to marriage equality, as he told the Advocate:

“With this recent group of Republicans, I wouldn’t say it was Barack Obama; it was Mitt Romney [that swayed them],” says Gregory Angelo, Log Cabin Republicans’ executive director. “It was the crushing defeat of 2012. Voters did not appreciate the Republican messaging on marriage equality.” Now Republicans are concerned with winning the next election and some believe digging in their heels on this issue will not help.

“This is just getting the Republican Party in line with the preponderance of the nation that supports marriage rights and equal rights for same-sex couples,” Angelo says.

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/director_of_log_cabin_republicans_you_can_thank_mitt_romney_for_recent_marriage_equality_gains/

[SummerSnow]

1. Oh I wish I could send this article to ole Mitt and watch him faint.

[closeupready]

2. Well then, thank you for failing forcefully, Mittster!

Really appreciate it.

[DonViejo]

3. No one has ever said Log Cabinites weren't delusional. nt

[Amimnoch]

4. I don't get these people even MORE now....

LCR's support Mittens.
Mittens is completely against their civil rights.
LCR's still support Mittens.
Mittens gets his arse handed to him in the general election.
LCR's then maintain that it's because Mittens lost so badly, it's a good thing for our rights..


Okay, so why were they trying to get him elected in the first place then??????? It would seem to me that if they actually gave two shits about our civil rights it would have made just a tad more sense to support the Candidate that came out for us from the beginning!!!!!!


I really just don't get them.

[Fearless]

7. Experts in denial

Looking for something new to deny now that they're out and *shudders* GOProud.

[Initech]

5. Well he's technically not wrong...

The campaign did draw a lot of attention to the LDS church and all the rampant old school bigotry and hatred of women that goes on in that organization. And I think it's truly turned off a lot of people. It definitely did for me.

[joeybee12]

6. Hey Gregory, google delusional butt-licking asshat...

There's a photo of you.