“Log Cabin Republicans is the nation’s only organization of Republicans who support fairness, freedom, and equality for gay and lesbian Americans,” according to their website.
The California Republican Party and their allies in the Mormon Church declared war on California’s gay community with Prop. 8. Isn’t it time for ALL remaining gay Republicans in California to quit the GOP? If so, why keep the Log Cabin Club’s doors open?
It’s not like fiscally conservative gay voters don’t have choices. They can join the Libertarian Party – which opposed Prop. 8. Or they can become Decline to State voters. The last thing they ought to do is stay in a party that hates them.
Art,
The disdain for social conservatives is growing in the GOP ranks and file. This may be the opportunity for the Log Cabin Reps to assert their influence on the GOP by pulling the GOP toward a more socially inert and fiscally conservative position before the social conservatives took over the party.
Well how can just one issue define what party one feels comfortable with anyway? That strikes me as extremely narrow thinking. Perhaps, on the whole, the Log Cabin Republicans feel better about trying to change the GOP from the inside.
Art, I think you’re encouraging exactly what should not be done. Any party without a strong opposition tends to go an extreme. Democrats will drift far to the social and fiscal left-wing if they are not required to defend their positions to the people. The Republican party of Teddy Rooseveldt, Dewey, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush was pretty much taken over completely social reactionaries more appropriate to the American Indpendeant Party. The fiscal conservatives from the full range of social views need to retake their party for the good of the nation. Art, your embrace of the Libertarian party just puts you into the comfortable company of think-alike’s, like a gentleman’s club … but, completely ineffectual in influencing the direction of American politics. You need to re-engage, and take Log Cabin with you.