Log Cabin executive director resigns over Trump endorsement

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Exclusive: Log Cabin executive director resigns over Trump endorsement

August 27, 2019 at 5:30 am EDT | by Chris Johnson

The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans has resigned following a controversial decision by the organization’s board to endorse President Trump, the Washington Blade has learned exclusively.

Jerri Ann Henry, who was the first woman to lead the LGBT Republican group, formally submitted her resignation Friday and left Monday after discussions with board members characterized as “harsh,” sources familiar with Log Cabin told the Blade.

The resignation follows intense criticism of Log Cabin, which announced its support for Trump earlier this month without its members having met with him or having received any explicit commitments in exchange.

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Henry’s name was not signed to the op-ed in the Washington Post endorsing Trump, which was signed by Log Cabin board chair Robert Kabel and vice chair Jill Homan. The op-ed was largely based on the Trump administration’s stated global initiative to decriminalize homosexuality and an HIV/AIDS plan — both of which have yet to yield any results.

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https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/08/27/exclusive-log-cabin-executive-director-resigns-over-trump-endorsement/

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Seriously, this group just doesn't make any sense to me, especially in recent years. How can you support a party that despises you and wishes you dead?

[hlthe2b]

1. Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah, Hah!

My schadenfreude spilleth over! GOOD

[dawg day]

2. A friend of mine who votes for Trump says--

"My investments mean more to me than being gay."

I did point out that Trump isn't all that great for investments, and neither are most GOP presidents, but then he switched to how he hates taxes.
Oh, well. At least we know his priorities. He is, btw, a member of the Log Cabin Republicans, so he might be representative.

[titaniumsalute]

4. What happens when the market drops 8,000 points

Does being gay become more important? That is a really weird thing to say or think.

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5. That argument doesn't even make any sense. Their Dear Leader even said it himself:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Glad to see some people fleeing

but, yeah, I don't get them at all. But I guess that, for some people, their economic or racial views somehow supersede their own human rights (because I guess, they think that they can buy themselves out of any kind of trouble or that anti-LGBTQ policies somehow don't apply to them?). Their organization's endorsement of Trump for re-election in 2020 is mind-boggling, given how anti-LGBTQ it has been, endorsing many of the bullet points of the religious right's wishlist. And whether or not Trump actually cares or not about LGBTQ issues or if the policies are coming more from Pence than Trump, the point is that this administration *is* attempting to deliver on anti-LGBTQ policies and make the country more inhospitable to LGBTQ equality.

[Newest Reality]

7. Values!

It is not talked about much, but people tend to have a conscious or, more often, unconscious set of values, and I am not implying something necessarily about morals, etc.

Those values have a hierarchy, (and even deeper, meta-values/programs often). Their are values that take precedence and score high and those that are less important, and some are conflicting and that is often problematic when it is not recognized. There are many kinds of values, but we can recognize common ones and if we made a hypothetical list it might look like this:

1. Wealth
2. Power
3. Sexuality
4. Spirituality
5. Gender issues
6. Community
etc.

Try to imagine the various dynamics that can occur when those values are in accord and when they are not or when circumstances require putting more emphasis on a lower priority value and less on a higher one, etc.

People's beliefs are secondary to those values and their behaviors are the outcome. The beliefs hang on the values like rings on a hook and support the values. Values can change over time and according to circumstances, but they are the most tenacious aspect. Beliefs can also be changed, but there is also a constellation of them around a specific value and the value takes precedence.

Thusly, in that kind of model, behaviors can also be changed by changing beliefs and ideas, but values and what is prior to them are the more fundamental and less amenable aspects of the structure of experience. This is just one way to map it.

[mac56]

6. Chickens for Colonel Sanders

[not_the_one]

8. I believe it is all about money.

We have two different worlds in question.

The rich live in isolation from everything the rest of us have to deal with. And I am talking about the RICH. Not the well off.

If you are rich, you live on an estate, or in an expensive high-rise apartment, you have already isolated yourself in a well-to-do gated community, and more than likely you have a driver who takes you everywhere you need to go, and you never have to rub elbows with the lower classes.

You don't shop for yourself, except in high-end boutiques for luxury items, and those shops don't allow the lower classes in.

You and all of your alleged "friends" (a very loosely defined set of associates) hang out in circles of money that don't have those pesky barriers.

You don't have to deal with limitations because your strata of society doesn't have to. You are special.

You are SO special that your specialness cancels all the negatives that the rest of us have to deal with on a daily basis. You may see it on the teevee, or see it from the window of your limo, but it is a world away.

And it is all about you. Piss on the riff-raff. They obviously don't deserve it.

And more than likely, you didn't do a damn thing to earn your status. You inherited it. I liken it to men who are SO PROUD that they have a big dick, which makes them so much more of a man than others who are smaller.. You got that big dick through genetics. You received THAT from daddy, too, just like the money. (Or some male ancestor.)

The only rich strata that still may still have some of those prejudices are the old-money rich in the south. But even there, the wink and nod pretty much addresses it. MONEY overrides all.

I do think, however, that a LOT of the Log Cabin types are just wannabes. They think they are almost well-off, but long for that RICH life, they don't have it yet, but are just beginning to enjoy some of the trappings by ACTING like they are members.

Since I don't fall into that category of blood-sucking parasites, that is how I see it, and YMMV.

[FakeNoose]

9. You've described the right-wing 1-per-centers very well here

... however I wouldn't know how many of these gay Repukes come from that group. Maybe a few do, but I'm guessing more of them are just middle class gay people who think they're safer in a crowd of other gays. Truly wealthy gays don't seem to care, they just live how they want and to hell with everybody else. I'm not gay so I'll admit I'm just guessing about this.