Friday, May 21, 2004
The GOP Is A Big Tent Party, Indeed...
...that is unless you're a GAY Republican. If you are, then the North Carolina Republican Party is asking you to keep your gay self with all your gayness at home during their state convention.
The North Carolina Republican Party is refusing to let the Log Cabin Republicans set up a booth at this weekend's state convention -- a move that has prompted complaints from the homosexual group that says it stands for "fairness, inclusion, and tolerance in the GOP."
"Log Cabin Republicans believe that at a time when our country is at war, we ought to be bringing Republicans together, not dividing them, and certainly not excluding them from their own state convention," said Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director Patrick Guerriero in a statement on the group's website.
This part amazes me, since I never thought I'd live to see the day a Republican would turn away money...
Ed Farthing, a North Carolina Log Cabin Republican, said he purchased a table at the NC state convention on behalf of the group in early April.
But N.C. GOP Chairman Ferrell Blount recently returned the money, along with what the Log Cabin Republicans called "a lengthy vitriolic letter" that said the group could not have a table after all.
"To flip-flop and refuse to allow loyal Republicans a seat at their own convention is petty and short sighted," Farthing said in the statement on the Log Cabin website.
Blount's letter reportedly said that "homosexuality is not normal and should not be established as an acceptable 'alternative' lifestyle." He also said the North Carolina Republican Party and the Log Cabin Republicans "do not seem to share the same agenda."
Being a gay Republican is looking more and more like being a Jewish Nazi every day...
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