At The DC Pride Fest... The Log Cabin Republican Booth Had Barely Anyone..

[arwalden]

visiting it. Even at the busiest part of the day, there were just a few folks even daring to approach. You'd have thought that Typhoid Mary was appearing in person.

-- Allen

[physioex]

1. LMAO...

These people are masocists.....When will things start sinking in?

[Liberal Veteran]

2. They probably had more people at the ex-gay outreach booth than LCR.

Which should tell you how popular they are.

[Fenris]

3. I wonder if their all going to bolt the party.

I mean, the whole premise is ideologically flawed. Think about it this way: if the white supremacists and racist and Klansmen support the Republican party, why in the Hell would any minorities? If the homophobes and gay-bashers support the Republican party, why the Hell would homosexuals? I mean, gay rights is kind of an important issue to homosexuals, right?

[Liberal Veteran]

5. I'll just be blunt...LCR is the equivalent of Jews for Hitler.

No doubt about it.

[lovedems]

4. Can you tell me a little bit about log cabin republicans?

I know very little about them so I looked on their website. Are they a group that really cares about inclusion or are they just pandering for votes? What direction do they want to take the republican party?

I feel silly not knowing much about them, but now is my chance!

[Fenris]

6. IIRC their support of the Republican Party is economy-centric.

They're more economically conservative and less so culturally.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. When the premise of a group is money is better than equality....

....something is very, very wrong.

[lovedems]

12. That sounds more libertarian to me?????

Unless my view of libertarians is totally screwed up!

[Liberal Veteran]

14. Well, no....libertarians tend toward extreme fiscal conservative and...

...extreme social liberalism.

[lovedems]

17. And Log Cabin Republicans don't go to the extreme of social liberalism?

They just want some semblance of inclusion in the republican party?

Bear with me please! :hi:

[Liberal Veteran]

18. No, basically the LCR think economic issues trumps equality....

ie, I'd rather cut welfare and get a tax break than be able to visit my partner in the hospital and share insurance benefits and have equal protection under the law or get custody of my child.

[lovedems]

20. Jeesh. I kind of feel sorry for them.

That is a screwed up way to want to live your life.

Edit: Thank you very much. You have educated someone today!

:yourock:

[Liberal Veteran]

7. Doormats would be a good description....

They are excluded from official functions and treated like garbage by the Republican party whose very platform is to turn them into permanent second class citizen and their response: "Please sirs, may I have some more?"

[lovedems]

13. I don't know why I find some humor in that.

They are being excluded from a party for trying to promote inclusion? So I take it they aren't very smart?

On edit: Not smart for sticking with the republican party.

[Liberal Veteran]

16. Either not smart or just maso.....

I think it might be the political equalivalent of battered wives syndrome.

"But they really love us. They don't mean to hurt us. I really love them. What will I do without them?"

[lovedems]

19. Ahhh! Now it is clear to me!

Maybe then you can explain why they stick with the party? Do they care that much about their wallets?

[Book Lover]

22. Yes, and also

the lack of a viable third party hurts them also, insofar as they feel they can't find anyplace to express their political thoughts. But I say tough shit, myself.

[Liberal Veteran]

23. The fact that they would favor economic interests over equality....

....says a great deal about them.

[Book Lover]

24. Yep, money sure blinds folks

Good old "I've got mine, you go to hell" thinking. I wonder if they'll set up a booth at SF Pride? .... anyone want to engage in a bit of shaming with me June 27th?

[Hell Hath No Fury]

8. In San Francisco...

they tend to be white, gay men with mucho green in their pockets.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

15. thats what they are all over

[Book Lover]

10. Also, didja hear

that the Hawaii "chapter" is disbanding?

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?id=12705&sd=06/09/04

Hawaii Log Cabin chapter reportedly disbands over same-sex marriage


The head of the Hawaii chapter of the gay political group Log Cabin Republicans says he and his members are pulling out of the gay conservative group and disbanding because its national chapter is spending too much time grappling with the issue of same-sex marriage, according to the Hawaii Reporter newspaper. Jeffrey Bingham Mead, who cofounded the local group in 1998 on the island of Oahu, said the issue of marriage equality for gay men and lesbians is too "controversial" and "rocky."

Mead told the paper he made his decision after the Massachusetts supreme judicial court's ruling in February that reiterated its November decision legalizing same-sex marriage in that state, which began on May 17. He was further annoyed when the national chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans asked its members to help overturn so-called defense of marriage laws across the country.

"All of us, including me, believe that marriage is between one man and one woman," Mead told the newspaper. "I offer no apologies to anyone." The businessman and professor, who is a columnist for the newspaper, said that he is also returning home to Greenwich, Conn., to resume earlier work in historic preservation. A note on Log Cabin Hawaii's Web site says that it has folded and refers visitors to the national chapter.

Advocate.com was unable to reach Mead at his home in Honolulu.

But Chris Barron, political director for the national office of the Log Cabin Republicans, said Mead's group is not an official part of the organization and that there hasn't been an official Hawaii chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans for a long time. "There's nothing to disband," he told Advocate.com. "We have members working in Hawaii, but there's no official chapter."

[Fenris]

11. "All of us, including me, believe that marriage is between one man and one

woman," Mead told the newspaper. "I offer no apologies to anyone."

Um, if your group disbanded, I'm guessing you don't all believe that.

[ronnykmarshall]

21. I wonder if they'll show up in West Hollywood.

They've had their booth up the past years and hardly anyone is there either.

[terrya]

25. They had balls even showing up there. Gotta hand it to them for sheer...

cojones. I would have LOVED to listen to them try to defend Bush and the FMA.