Conservatives urge Michael Steele to cut ties with Log Cabin Republicans

[marmar]

What do they say about chickens hanging out with Col. Sanders? ..... Any so-called Log Cabin Republican needs his or her head examined. :think:



from the American Family Association's OneNewsNow hatespeak service:



Log Cabin Republicans 'not a worthwhile exchange'
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 2/17/2009 7:00:00 AM


A conservative activist group is urging the new chairman of the Republican National Committee to refrain from courting homosexual activists within the GOP.

Illinois-based Americans for Truth About Homosexuality is calling on socially conservative Republicans to call or write new party chairman Michael Steele and ask him not to promote the agenda of the Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual activist group.

Log Cabin praised Steele's election last month, saying the former Maryland lieutenant governor "believes in a big tent GOP" and "is an inclusive leader who will bring a new energy and a new vision to the GOP at a critical time."

Americans for Truth president Peter LaBarbera says Steele would be unwise to embrace the Log Cabin agenda.

"Every time a new guy like Steele comes in, the Log Cabin Republicans try to say, 'Hey, he's one of our guys. He's for inclusion,'" claims LaBarbera.

But Steele, says LaBarbera, would give up substantially more than he would gain should he reach out to the homosexual activists. "he reality is there's only 20,000 members all across the country of this tiny homosexual activist group called the Log Cabin Republicans," he shares. "It's not a worthwhile exchange to get 20,000 votes to lose millions and millions of faithful, pro-family religious conservatives who are the grassroots of the Republican Party."

LaBarbera says his group is merely asking Steele to defend the Republican Party's platform on the issues of life and marriage. He notes the Log Cabin Republicans have called for the repeal of Proposition 8, the voter-approved amendment banning same-sex "marriage" in California.

Some conservatives have been critical of Steele's past involvement with the Republican Leadership Council, a pro-abortion, centrist group he founded with Christie Todd Whitman.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=422192 (if Rickrolled, the story's at www.afa.net in the onenewsnow area)

[SoCalDem]

1. those "ties" are like bungee cords.. they only pull them in at voting time anyway

I cannot imagine why any gay person would even want to identify themselves with such a hateful group of people..

[gratuitous]

2. There are 20,000 Log Cabin Republicans?

Wow, that's a lot of chickens rooting for Col. Sanders! I wonder where LaBarbera got this number? And, since the Americans for Truth don't think that homosexuals deserve to participate fully in our society, would they consider not taxing gay people? Why should sexual minorities have to pay to support a society built on their exclusion?

Or would the mere suggestion cause Peter LaBarbera's tiny little brain to pop like a bit of bubble wrap?

[madrchsod]

3. if it was`t so sad i would laugh

throw twenty thousand off the bus to no where...maybe they will be better off

[biopowertoday]

4. umm. I did not know this.....

............Some conservatives have been critical of Steele's past involvement with the Republican Leadership Council, a pro-abortion, centrist group he founded with Christie Todd Whitman.

[TexasLawyer]

5. Do it, Michael-- PLEASE

Marginalize the GOP even further in the eyes of average Americans.

The GOP is an exclusive club. Reject all but the true, Bible-thumping believers. :rofl: