Dan Savage tweeted this…
…in response to this announcement by the Republican Party’s Tea Party gay group, GOProud.
GOProud is prepared to commit significant resources to help make Mitt Romney the next President of the United States.
The Board of Directors of GOProud voted to enthusiastically endorse Governor Romney’s candidacy for President.
Most gay Americans – like their straight counterparts – are not better off than they were 4 years ago. The truth is that gay people are living in the disastrous failed Obama economy too.
Really? Are gay Americans worst off than they were 4 years ago?
Allow me to ask:
1. Are gay soldiers worst off now with the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
2. Are gay Americans worst off now that 9 states recognize same-sex marriage and 6 states grant these licenses?
3. Are gay Americans worst off now that the Justice Department has declared that it will stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 act which recognizes marriage strictly as a union between a man and a woman?
4. Are gay Americans worst off now that they have a President who recently stated that he believes that every American should have the right to marry the person they love regardless of sexual orientation and who declared unequivocally that same-sex marriage should be legalized?
I could go on about the “disastrous failed Obama economy” and how it is in truth the result of policies set out by GOProud’s Republican party and how it is in fact a recovering economy (albeit a slow one, again thanks to the GOProud’s Republican Party) which is in a far better place than it was in 2008 when tens of thousands jobs were being lost each month. I could do this but what could be more relevant to a gay person than recognition that they as human beings have the same civil rights as every other American?
What the hell is the matter with these self-loathing people that they are willing to subjugate themselves to second class citizenry and support a homophobic political entity that despises their very existence? And don’t give me this “working from the inside” bullshit…it doesn’t work with Republicans. As long as the Religious Right remains a core component of the party’s base, conservative politicians will cater to every one of their bigoted, hate-filled whims.
Dan Savage had it perfectly right…GOProud’s members as well as Log Cabin Republicans are pathetic fools with very little to be proud of.
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Same thing can be said of anyone who votes for the GOP who is female, elderly, non-Christian, non-white, an immigrant and earns less than $250,000 a year.
What is the difference between a gay person who supports Republicans and a Jew who supports Nazis? No difference.
I thought of a really crass comment, but decided to refrain.
Why do I get this startling image of a hoard of happy chickens carrying Colonel Sanders around on their shoulders, or whatever chickens have instead of shoulders.
That’s pretty weird, but not as weird as the indictment of The Attorney General for Contempt of Congress, egged on by The NRA!
People can debate whether or not being gay is a mental illness,,, But there is no debate when it comes to being a gay republican who supports republicans, you have to be mentally ill to support the very people that hate everything you stand for?
I’ll say it again. IMO GOProud & “Log Cabin Repubicans” are FAKES, meant to attract the LGBT community to support Republicans. Nothing else makes sense, at least to me.
Aside from being better off than four years ago, would gay Americans become better off if Obama is replaced with a human wind sock under the sway of a party of ravening theocrats barely a millimeter more liberal on these issues than Fred Phelps? Because that’s what their endorsement implies they believe.
“human wind sock“…there’s an illustration in there somewhere. Thanks.
As usual Mario, you are right on. Every point about Obama’s administration is correct, but NO, WHY NOT ELECT THE GUYS WHO GOT US INTO RECESSION IN THE FIRST PLACE?
It nauseates me to see and hear gay Republicans show they are even MORE ignorant and delusional than straight Republicans. Who wants to belong to a party that not only doesn’t want them as a member, but either ignores or actually endorses hatred and bigotry toward them? Idiots.
I have personally debated Log Cabin types (I will engage anybody after a couple drinks) and they think they are changing the party from within, “Fix the party, don’t abandon it.” Bullsquirt. It’s bad enough that everybody in the nation doesn’t see that Mitt Romney is a good suit with only methane inside, but gay Republicans don’t even seem to care that the millions he gives to his church go directly to lobbying for hatred (California’s Prop 8 – 25 million from the Mormon church). Imbecilic children.
Pathetically, they would probably keep loving Mitt even if he suggested they “Self Deport.”
GOProud is being used by the Republicans, and they will deserve whatever disappointments come their way.