So Dave, according to your choice of word order, you consider yourself first a gay man, and THEN an American.

This is why the Left is wrong.

I rest my case.

Regards,
Peter H.

Yeah, the statement was too long. But in it, they clearly described what they support/appreciate about Bush. I don’t see anything in it that indicates any “pandering to left-leaning” groups but I read it with a different set of glasses than you.

It was not so much the non-endorsement that irked me, but how Log Cabin released it. Were that statement still up on their web-site, I would link it and show what I mean Just found the release via a google search, apparently it is still up, but not listed on their web-site. For the time being, I will just note how long it is.

It was the length that really got me. All Log Cabin needed say was:

Given the President’s support for the Federal Marriage Amendment, the Board of Log Cabin voted overwhelmingly not to endorse his re-election. We feel this pander to social conservatives compromises his otherwise solid record of leadership. While we are not endorsing George W. Bush for President, we are remaining neutral in the presidential race, troubled by John Kerry’s vacillations on national security and commitment to an ever-larger federal government. Despie our silence in the presidnetial race, we intend to work to elect broad-minded Repubicans like Arlen Specter for Senate in Pennsylvania and Deborah Pryce for Congress in Ohio.

Such a statement would show the party’s commitment to the GOP and make clear that Log Cabin was not pandering to the left-leaning gay organizations as the text of its 2004 release indicates.

HRC allegedly exists SOLELY for the purpose of gay issues.

LCR exists for the purpose of Republican positions on multiple issues, NOT just gay issues.

Therefore, as a Republican group, it is perfectly acceptable for LCR to have a position on abortion. However, since abortion is not a gay and lesbian issue, it is completely inappropriate for HRC to have a position on it or to use it as a consideration in their endorsements.

And I say the same thing about liberal LGBT groups who endorsed Kerry and are doing the same for the current Dem candidates.

That would be all of them. So say it directly, that HRC, NGLTF, and all the other gay and lesbian liberal “rights” groups have no integrity.

And I loved this juxtaposition:

All that aside, it’s a positive thing that it got you back into blogging, voices of all perspectives are needed because it’s a combination of all of them that will move us as LGBT people, as USA citizens and as occupants of planet earth, forward not backwards.

with this:

I know it’s a mortal sin for any Republican not to goose step along with the rest of the party

So you say how much you “value” us in one sentence, and then compare us to Nazis in the next.

Uh huh.

All that aside, it’s a positive thing that it got you back into blogging, voices of all perspectives are needed because it’s a combination of all of them that will move us as LGBT people, as USA citizens and as occupants of planet earth, forward not backwards.

I Googled Gay Republican Blogs and found GayPatriot and others. I came to GP around the time of the “Wanted” Poster kerfuffle. Forget how long ago that was.