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The Anti-Gay Revival Tent

By TChris, Section Social Justice
Posted on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 04:03:27 PM EST
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Minnesota state senator Paul Koering asks a salient question: "How can you be gay and be in the Republican Party?" The answer: you can't -- at least not if you're openly gay and want to hold a public office.

Never more than a tiny fraction of GOP politicians, openly gay Republicans are about to disappear from Congress with the retirement of Rep. Jim Kolbe of Arizona, and Koering is the lone openly gay GOP state legislator -- out of 7,382 seats nationwide.

There's no room for tolerance in the GOP.

Instead of an all-welcoming "big tent," the GOP "is more of a revival tent," [Chuck] Wolfe said. "It has chased out more and more gay Republicans."

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    The Anti-Gay Revival Tent | 11 comments (11 topical)
    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#1)
    by jarober on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 05:02:21 PM EST
    Hmm.  Perhaps TChris could explain to me which party is outing gays who don't "toe the line" of thinking preferred by some gay activists.  Perhaps it's the same party that keeps referring to Michael Steele as an "oreo" - after illegally rummaging through his private records, I might add.  

    It might even be the same party that is moving back to their Copperhead roots all the time, with the anti-war rhetoric.  Jack Murtha is a 2006 version of Clement Vallandigham.  

    You might want to rethink the "big tent" theory.  While you're at it, perhaps you could explain the public praise of Gerry Studds at his death, given that his actions were utterly indefensible - while at the same time casting aspersions at Foley and any Republican nearby.

    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#6)
    by scarshapedstar on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 08:45:04 PM EST
    <quote>Perhaps TChris could explain to me which party is outing gays who don't "toe the line" of thinking preferred by some gay activists.</quote>

    Uh... perhaps you could explain to me which party made it so that being "outed" is a bad thing in the first place.

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    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#7)
    by scarshapedstar on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 08:47:34 PM EST
    I mean, really. If we had a better society, being outed as a homosexual would be no different than being outed as having blue eyes. I guess next you're going to blame us for Pat Robertson, too.

    Pathetic.

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    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#2)
    by Che's Lounge on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 05:04:58 PM EST
    Hey gays can be elitists too! Gettin' your mains isn't an attitude confined just to the heterosexual community. The hypocrite RW has kind of an unwritten "don't ask, don't tell" policy. It just got outed. LMFAO.

    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#3)
    by Slado on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 05:06:13 PM EST
    Realistically how many openly gay reps, governors or senators are there? How many were openly gay when they ran? Wasn't it a democratic govenor in NJ who came out and was run out of town? If a openly gay repulican said he wanted to stay in Iraq, cut my taxes, put an end to affirmative action, was for civil unions but not gay marriage I'd vote for him. Show me that canidate and I'll conceed your point.

    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#4)
    by dead dancer on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 07:09:30 PM EST
    The NJ governor mentioned had other issues which brought his carrer to a screaching halt.


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    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#5)
    by cpinva on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 07:44:54 PM EST
    how then to explain the "log cabin republicans"?

    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#8)
    by scarshapedstar on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 09:14:52 PM EST
    The ones who weren't even allowed at the Convention?

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    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#9)
    by cpinva on Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 01:00:33 AM EST
    yes scar, them would be the ones. it's a mystery to me how someone could support a party so completely antithetical to their own interests.

    maybe they're closet masochists.

    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#10)
    by Gabriel Malor on Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 11:41:31 AM EST
    Or maybe they're not single-issue voters.

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    Re: The Anti-Gay Revival Tent (none / 0) (#11)
    by scarshapedstar on Sat Oct 21, 2006 at 03:43:54 AM EST
    it's a mystery to me how someone could support a party so completely antithetical to their own interests.

    Ever talk to a liberal Democrat?

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