What Bush43 learned from Bush41 about gays and fundies

[Norquist Nemesis]

:wow: Just stumbled across this little blast from the past...
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Bush+is+gay&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&newwindow=1&selm=616%40sol.AER.COM&rnum=3

From: Peter Nelson ([email protected])
Subject: Re: Bush anti-gay for Fundie vote
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Date: 1992-04-24 14:09:13 PST


In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes:
>
> On CNN last night there was a report that Bush met with what the
> report called Evangelical Christian representatives (at the White
> House?) yesterday.

<. . .>

> Did anyone else hear it, or read about it? Who were
> these "Evangelicals" he met with?And how accurate is my recall
> of the report?


The Boston Globe reprinted a Washington Post article about this
meeting, which is appended below. The article doesn't say where in
Washington the meeting took place, though it does emphasize that Bush
sought the fundies out. It's distressing to me how increasingly
accessible this administration is to some of the more radical right
wing/fundamentalist individuals and groups (such as Jerry Falwell and
Concerned Women for America), while even moderately progressive groups
have no access. Who Bush chooses to listen to speaks volumes about
where he plans to lead the country if re-elected.



>From the Boston Globe, Wednesday April 22, 1992


BUSH SAYS GAY RIGHTS LAWS AREN'T NECESSARY

(Washington Post)

Washington - President Bush told a group of evangelical Christian
leaders yesterday that he opposes special laws to protect the rights
of homosexuals, including the recent domestic partners legislation in
the District of Columbia, according to accounts of the meeting.

[DaveSZ]

1. So he is against all gay rights laws

[rfranklin]

2. People rights should be rights, not gay rights or hetero rights or...

black rights or white folks rights, don't you think?

[benddem]

3. W was 41's

fundy outreach person. So this isn't new.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. Dubya Bush SOP: Talk Centrist, Govern Hard Right

George UU Bush's standard operating procedure has been to talk like a centrist, but govern like a hard rightist. He was doing this even while he was Governor of Texas. All too many credulous centrists, not to mention the indolent corporate media, let him get away with it.

As a matter of fact, during the GOP convention, while the GOP was publically displaying its "tolerant" face, Dubya was quietly huddling with evangelicals at a separate NYC location.