Trump boasts about Log Cabin Republican endorsement as its members flee in protest

[babylonsister]

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-thinks-gay-republican-support-excuses-his-anti-lgbtq-policies-dbc99eb4b221/


Trump boasts about Log Cabin Republican endorsement as its members flee in protest
Trump thinks gay Republican support excuses his anti-LGBTQ policies.
Zack Ford
Aug 20, 2019, 4:10 pm


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“Well you know I just got an award and an endorsement yesterday from the exact group. You saw that,” Trump said, referring to the Log Cabin Republican endorsement that was in fact from last week. “They gave me the endorsement yesterday, and I was very honored. Log Cabin. The Log Cabin group. And I was very honored to receive it.”

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The endorsement of the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) has also proved incredibly divisive among those who previously belonged to the organization. Casey Pick, a former LCR leader, penned a lengthy reflection about how the organization she once knew no longer exists, concluding, “Call me any name you please — and I know folks will — but please, don’t call me a Log Cabin Republican.”

Robert Turner, former head of the Washington, D.C. LCR chapter, also withdrew his membership, claiming the endorsement of Trump “is a step too far” — one that leaves him “sad.”

Jennifer Horn, a member of the LCR national board, submitted her resignation Monday night over the Trump endorsement. “There is no world where I can sit down at the dining room table and explain to my children that I just endorsed Donald Trump for president,” she told The Washington Post. “It is contrary to everything that I have ever taught them about what it means to be a good, decent, principled member of society.”

For all the internal fallout, today’s comments suggest the LCR endorsement is accomplishing exactly what it intended: to provide cover despite Trump’s atrocious anti-LGBTQ record. The organization may represent an exceedingly minuscule number of people, but it still gives Trump something to talk about instead of the actions he’s actually taken.

[pwb]

1. It is opposite land.

.

[Disaffected]

2. I'd like to

leave a log in his cabin.

[a kennedy]

4. Oh my......

[Wounded Bear]

3. I've been wondering for years how any gay person could support the Repub party...

The party has been attacking gay rights for decades. It seems to me that if it took Trump to wake them up, they're in some serious denial about their politcal affiliation.

[a kennedy]

5. I know......two women in our lunch group, both gay, and both went to his damn inauguration !!!!!

Just don't get it.

[gratuitous]

6. Good to see some of them have a lick of sense

As for the rest of the LCRs who are staying? What's more important to you than your life, your dignity, and living in peace with yourself? Because Republicans are doing their level best to deprive you of all three of those.