and a round of vichy water for my friends

[sisyphusshrugged]

the Claude Rains Memorial Gambling Awareness Award goes to the Log Cabin Republicans, who are shocked! to discover that Our Fearless Leader is not on their side

The Republican Party's largest gay and lesbian organization, which endorsed President Bush in 2000, is withholding its endorsement of the president for re-election because of his support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

The national board of Log Cabin Republicans voted 22-2 Tuesday night to hold back the endorsement and called Bush "disloyal" to the 1 million gay men and lesbian women who it said supported his candidacy four years ago.

"It is impossible to overstate the depth of anger and disappointment caused by the president's support for an antifamily constitutional amendment. This amendment would not only ban gay marriage, it would also jeopardize civil unions and domestic partnerships," Log Cabin political director Chris Barron said.

The organization said significant victories for gay rights marked the early days of the Bush administration, including the appointment of openly gay employees in the administration and anti-discrimination protection for federal employees.

Log Cabin executive director Patrick Guerriero said the administration shifted from initial reluctance over a ban on gay marriage to full support after the campaign decided to focus its re-election efforts on persuading evangelical Republicans who stayed at home in 2000 to go to the polls this year.

because they were just sure that when he threw himself behind an effort to ban adoptions by gay parents in Texas he didn't really mean it.

I have to go with Bush on this one, frankly. There was never any question of loyalty to the gay men and lesbian women who voted for him. He's been spitting on them all along. They've just only now noticed that they're wet.

Comments

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

(a) Everyone has been saying "duh" to the Log Cabin Republicans for a long time. I can't believe it took them this long to figure it out.

(b) Excellent use of Claude Rains's Louis and that fantastic quote. The sad part is he was being sarcastic, or at the least cutely disingenuous, and the Log Cabin Republicans are in deadly earnest.

[(Anonymous)]

One million gays and lesbians supported Bush (over Al GOre, no less)? A million?

Is that really possible? If Bush had that level of support (seriously), then given normal distribution patterns, because of a loss of this constituency, he will now (handily) lose places like Florida (Key West alone will throw this to Kerry).

I guess its just the macro version of Andrew Sullivan and Groucho Marx: you'll simply join no party which wants you as a member.

Karl made an interesting calculation here. While I hope it backfires, since I don't accept these numbers, I'm not sure it will.

[(Anonymous)]

That last one was from me, and I too an shocked-- SHOCKED, I say-- to hear that George W. bush would tell God-fearing Republicans that while they are welcome in the party, they just cannot sanctify their union by the Holy Hand of state power, simply because their hedonistic habits will cause them to roast in hell.

--TTD

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

Ask yourself, why would Bush Piss away 1,000,000 votes?
I think we had better look very closely at Diebold.