Tag Archives: Jimmy LaSalvia

As part of their hilarious campaign of asking the anti-gay teabaggers they endorsed to not be so darn anti-gay, yesterday GOProud’s Jimmy LaSalvia battled Wendy Wright from Concerned Women for America, who shot holes in LaSalvia’s argument.

Not too surprising that an organization comprised virtually entirely of wealthy white men would be anti-woman. Then there’s this Chris Barron quote from August 4th: “We are a gay organization, we only work on gay issues, we have never claimed otherwise. My God people.” By “gay issues” he must mean controlling the reproductive choices of heterosexual women. UPDATE: The organizer …

“According to CNN, 31% of self-identified gay voters supported Republican candidates for the U.S. House. This number is a dramatic increase from the 19% GOP House candidates won among gay voters in 2008. The gay left would have you believe that gay conservatives don’t exist. Now we see that almost a third of self-identified gay voters cast ballots for Republican …

“The decision by the leadership of the gay left to support the Arizona boycott over an issue totally unrelated to gay rights shows just how beholden they are to the union bosses. The Arizona boycott is being spear-headed by the Service Employees International Union, and the law at the center of the boycott has nothing even tangentially to do with …

The Washington Independent is reporting that an amendment allowing gun owners to carry their concealed weapons across state lines may be attached to the Matthew Shepard Act, the Senate’s hate crimes bill. The spurious reasoning: It will protect gays from bashing. Yeeeeah. And GOProud nutter Jimmy LaSalvia one of the people behind it. One month after successfully tucking an amendment …

The eagle-eyed Jeremy Hooper at Good As You has noticed that Jimmy LaSalvia (left), the cofounder and head of GOProud, the new uber-right Log Cabin Republicans spinoff, has signed onto a document calling for a Senate filibuster to block the approval of SCOTUS nominee Sonia Sotomayor. And who are LaSalvia’s cosignees? How about Peter LaBarbera, Donald Wildmon, Rev. Lou Sheldon, …