Tag Archives: Log Cabin Republicans

The Log Cabin Republicans have dissolved their Dallas chapter after its president told a national radio audience that businesses should have the right to fire people for being black. Lucas Grindley reports at the Advocate: Robert Schlein, who was president of the defunct Dallas chapter, regularly writes op-eds for the Dallas Voice that cause a stir, and one such column …

“If Herman Cain truly wants to see the science proving that sexual orientation is not a choice, Log Cabin Republicans would be happy to show it to him. The claim that a person chooses to be gay or lesbian has been discredited by every major professional medical organization, starting with the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association. An …

Servicemembers Legal Defense Network head Aubrey Sarvis gives the president huge credit for the repeal of DADT, but warns of the day when one of our enemies wins back the Oval Office. “Most of the candidates say they would repeal the repeal. A new president could force the military to change the regulations, and we would go back to a …

Radio silence from GOProud, of course.

“Chairman Preibus called me over the weekend and assured me that Cooper was not on the payroll and had not been ‘appointed.’ He simply volunteered to be a part of an open group of individuals who will personally give the party $30,000 and try to raise $300,000 or more. The Loggers wanted the RNC to release a statement celebrating Cooper …

Log Cabin Republicans executive director R. Clark Cooper has been named to the RNC’s finance committee. The AFA reports: The Log Cabin group says R. Clarke Cooper will play a “critical” role in raising funds for the party’s efforts to elect Republicans to the White House and across the country. Cooper says he will be working to elect what he …

At the Log Cabin Republicans convention in Dallas, an LCR member was assaulted and called “faggot” in the lobby bar of event’s host hotel. According to a police spokesman quoted by the Dallas Voice, the Log Cabin member had been whistling at a straight patron of the bar before the attack. Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse, a spokesman for DPD, said …

Yesterday the Log Cabin Republicans filed a brief with the Ninth Circuit Court demanding the immediate end of DADT. The ban on openly gay soldiers remains in place while the Pentagon “certifies” that its repeal won’t harm military effectiveness. [Log Cabin] said that keeping the ban in place after President Barack Obama signed an order to repeal it is “absurd”. …

Chris Matthews rips Log Cabin president R. Clark Cooper over his backing of House Speaker John Boehner’s plan to defend DOMA.

Late yesterday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the federal government’s request that they suspend the Log Cabin Republicans’ lawsuit seeking the repeal of DADT. The opposed motion to hold these appeals in abeyance is denied. The briefing schedule is reset as follows: the government’s opening brief and excerpts of record are due February 25, 2011; Log Cabin Republicans’ …

The Log Cabin Republicans have announced a new campaign to create the “gay GOP leaders of tomorrow.” Via press release: Log Cabin Republicans of New York today announced the Starting at 1 initiative: beginning on January 1, 2011 (1/1/11) and continuing throughout the coming year, Log Cabin Republicans of New York members will regularly receive information designed to inspire a …

Chris Matthews calls out LCR head R. Clark Cooper for being a gay Republican, what with their pesky anti-gay platform. Cooper: “Something, something, work from the inside, something something.”

The Supreme Court has refused to vacate the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s indefinite stay of the overturn of DADT. The vacate request was filed on behalf of the Log Cabin Republicans, who last month convinced District Court Judge Virginia Phillips to declare DADT to be unconstitutional. Via SCOTUSblog: Without noting a dissent, but with Justice Kagan not taking part, …

Today the Department of Justice filed a brief in opposition to the Log Cabin Republicans’ request that the U.S. Supreme Court hear the LCR’s appeal of the Ninth Circuit Court’s indefinite stay on the overturn of DADT. Whew! Got all that? The Log Cabin Republicans respond to this latest bit of legal ping-pong. “It is unfortunate the Obama Justice Department …

Today the Log Cabin Republicans turned to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to overturn the Ninth Circuit Court’s indefinite stay of Judge Virginia Phillips’ overturn of DADT. From the LCR’s law firm of Dan Woods, White & Case: “We have today filed an application with the United States Supreme Court asking it to vacate the Ninth Circuit’s order …

This just in via Daily Kos: “U.S. district judge Virginia A. Phillips orders the Defense Department to ‘immediately to suspend and discontinue any investigation, or discharge, separation, or other proceeding.'” Phillips’ ruling regards the case brought by the Log Cabin Republicans. Here’s the text of the order: 1) DECLARES that the act known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” infringes the …

Tonight MSNBC’s Chris Matthews covered the Sen. Saxby Chambliss “all faggots must die” scandal, bringing on openly gay Rep. Jared Polis and Log Cabin head R. Clarke Cooper to discuss what should happen next. Watch Cooper quisle his defense of the GOP, saying that there aren’t any gay haters in the GOP’s offices. Matthews responds incredulously: “Not at ALL?” Jared …

The clip starts out with the awards just given to two anti-gay Congress members by the Log Cabin Republicans.

Sonny’s widow voted against the repeal of DADT. She faces openly gay Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet, who if elected would become the first gay-married gay parent in the national legislature. Pougnet has been facing his own local problems regarding a sex sting by Palms Springs police on gay men in a local park.