Tag Archives: Log Cabin Republicans

CONNECTICUT: Homocon House Candidate Clay Cope Says Trump & Pence Don’t Believe In Discrimination

Back in June when House Democrats staged their gun control sit-in, homocon House candidate Clay Cope told the press that he was going to buy a gun because he feels “targeted” as a Christian gay man. Today he brags to NBC News about his support for Donald Trump: To explain the appeal of Trump’s politics, he described his first experience …

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ANOTHER HOMOCON BETRAYAL: Anti-LGBT Activist Newt Gingrich To Headline Log Cabin Fundraiser

The Log Cabin Republicans this week announced that Newt Gingrich will headline their fundraiser next month in Washington DC. Gingrich, as most of you surely know, has long been a loud opponent of LGBT rights in virtually every category. He pledged to reinstate DADT if elected president. He signed NOM’s hate pledge to support a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex …

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Log Cabin Republicans: We Can’t Decide On Endorsing Trump Until He Stops Blowing Off Our Requests To Meet

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: As Donald Trump continues to make provocative and controversial comments with fewer than 100 days before the general election, Log Cabin Republicans continues to mull whether to endorse him for president. Gregory Angelo, president of Log Cabin, said Monday he’s unable to predict whether Trump will receive an endorsement from the organization. Angelo …

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Log Cabin Republicans Head Gregory Angelo: Our Friend Donald Trump Is A Leader On LGBT Rights

The Republican Party has adopted the most viciously anti-LGBT platform in American history, but little things like civil rights mean nothing to Log Cabin Republicans head Gregory Angelo. Michelangelo Signorile interviewed him yesterday at the convention: “As far as LGBT issues go, he has actually been a leader on LGBT rights,” Angelo told me, even though Trump is opposed to …

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Caitlyn Jenner At Log Cabin Event: I Don’t Speak For The Trans Community, I Only Speak For Myself [VIDEO]

The Hill reports: Reality star Caitlyn Jenner on Wednesday morning bashed anti-transgender bathroom laws around the country, joking that some Republicans should be banned from public restrooms. “Over the last few years, we have three Republican state representatives who were all arrested for lewd behavior in a men’s bathroom,” she said, mentioning former Mississippi Rep. John Hinson, former Idaho Sen. …

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Log Cabin Republicans: Losers! Morons! Sad!

No, the homocons at Log Cabin haven’t suddenly become self-aware, that’s what they are calling the GOP platform committee in a full-page ad published today in the Cleveland edition of USA Today. Via press release: Log Cabin Republicans has placed a full-page ad in USA Today calling out the GOP Platform Committee for drafting the most anti-LGBT platform in the …

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Dan Savage: Log Cabin Republicans Spent Months Tonguing Donald Trump’s Ass And Still Got Nothing

Dan Savage ripped into the Log Cabin Republicans today in a piece for Seattle’s Stranger: The Log Cabin Republicans have been working to “transform the GOP from the inside” for forty years and not only hasn’t it gotten better, it’s gotten worse. The 2016 Republican Platform, adopted today without a peep of protest from Log Cabin Republicans, is worse on …

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Log Cabin Issues Money Beg Over GOP Platform

The party we support hates you, so send us money. The Miami Herald has the full thing: There’s no way to sugar-coat this: I’m mad as hell — and I know you are, too. Moments ago, the Republican Party passed the most anti-LGBT Platform in the Party’s 162-year history. Opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about bathrooms, an endorsement of the …

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Caitlyn Jenner To Attend Homocon Event During GOP Convention: I Want To Support Courageous Republicans

“The party conventions are like the political Olympics, and I’m excited to be headed to Cleveland to stand with my fellow LGBT Republicans and allies. As a proud Republican and transgender woman, I want to support courageous Republicans who advocate for LGBT freedom. Our country’s nondiscrimination laws must be updated and this cannot be achieved without bipartisan support. “Congress needs …

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Log Cabin Member Op-Ed: Why I’m Voting Trump

Log Cabin Republicans member Juan Hernandez today recounts being attacked at a recent Trump rally in an op-ed for the Washington Post. You may recall that he characterized the attackers as “criminals (otherwise known as Democrats).” According to Hernandez, the attack has only deepened his support for Donald Trump. He writes: Here in Northern California, I feel like I’m a …

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Log Cabin Member: Criminals (Otherwise Known As Democrats) Broke My Nose At Donald Trump Rally

“My experience at the Trump rally in San Jose. Protesters = they are criminals, otherwise known as Democrats. Got jumped last night as we exited the rally. Really? For practicing my right to support the next Commander in Chief?? Law enforcement failed last night in San Jose. Failed. Thanks for a broken nose, uncontrollable bleeding, and a bash to the …

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Log Cabin Republicans Slam “Duplicitous” Dems For Voting Down Bill That Included LGBT Protections

“We should have known — those duplicitous Democrats are at it again! Headlines from the liberal media this afternoon are blaring that the House GOP killed this legislation, but the truth is that when given the choice between supporting the LGBT community and supporting runaway spending, nearly the entire House Democratic Caucus showed their true colors and voted in support …

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Log Cabin Republicans Denounce House GOP Reps For “Fraudulently” Reversing Pro-LGBT Executive Order

Via press release: “During an election year in which voters across the country are crying out because they feel our country’s political system is at best broken and at worst rigged, the sham on the floor of the United States House of Representatives yesterday spearheaded by Leader McCarthy played up everything wrong with congress today,” Log Cabin Republicans President Gregory …

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Log Cabin Republicans Hit Trump On Marriage [VIDEO]

David Badash writes at New Civil Rights Movement: The Log Cabin Republicans today posted an ad demanding Donald Trump tell them where he stands on same-sex marriage. The gay GOP group as recently as December had been supportive of the Republican frontrunner, with their president proclaiming the brash billionaire is “one of the best, if not the best, pro-gay Republican …

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Log Cabin Republicans: Nancy Reagan Loved The Gays

“Let the record show: Nancy Reagan – Opposed the anti-gay Briggs Initiative (1978!) – Invited the first openly gay couple to stay overnight in the White House – Encouraged her husband to fight the AIDS epidemic to the tune of $5.727 billion that was spent by the federal government by the time President Reagan left office – Sent a special …

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Red-Caped Catholic Loons: We Won’t Come Back To CPAC If Log Cabin Republicans Are There Again

The red-caped Catholic loons of Tradition, Family, & Property have issued a press release in which they vow to boycott future CPACs if the Log Cabin Republicans are allowed to return as sponsors. They write: The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is under fire this year for accepting the sponsorship of Log Cabin Republicans, an LGBT activist group that promotes …

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Log Cabin Republicans To Sponsor CPAC

After years of being rejected, Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory Angelo last night announced that his group has been accepted of a sponsor of CPAC, the annual right wing convention where attendees and hate group leaders gather to denounce LGBT Americans in the most vicious ways imaginable and plot anti-LGBT legislation in the name of White Jesus. Via the Washington …

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Dan Savage Vs The “Lying, Delusional, Self-Hating Shitbags” That Are The Log Cabin Republicans

“Every four years gay Republicans slime out from under their rocks to remind us that the Democratic candidate wasn’t always perfect on LGBT issues. They then implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) pivot to this nonsensical argument: Since your guy/gal wasn’t always perfect on LGBT issues, the LGBT community should vote for the Republican who was terrible on LGBT issues then, is …

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Log Cabin Slams Hillary On Marriage [VIDEO]

In 2012 the Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Mitt Romney after he signed NOM’s hate pledge to support placing a ban on same-sex marriage into to the US Constitution. Today they have a problem with Hillary Clinton on the same issue. They write: Not everyone in the United States Senate supported marriage equality in 2004, but few took to the floor …

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Log Cabin Republicans: Hillary Clinton Is Sexist

The Log Cabin Republicans this morning tweeted out a link to their letter to the editor of the Washington Post. It reads: In her Jan. 17 column, “Shame on Carly Fiorina,” Ruth Marcus oppugned Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina for claiming to “actually love spending time with [her] husband,” denouncing the candidate’s overt dig at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton …

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