The Peter provided the usual breathless panty-bunching over Michael Steele and the Log Cabin Republicans (AGAIN!)
"Michael Steele and the GOP need to do the math," LaBarbera said. "It is foolish and impractical to risk alienating millions of pro-family, pro-life, conservative grassroots Republicans to appease a tiny homosexual special interest group with fewer members than the population of Liberal, Kansas."More below the fold.LaBarbera told the Blade he issued the statement to Steele because he thinks Log Cabin "is angling to say that it has got the upper hand" with the election of Steele as RNC chair.
"Log Cabin is out of step with the grassroots base of the Republican Party," LaBarbera said. "When you're joining the other gay groups in trying to reverse Proposition 8, very few Republicans are going to say that's a winning strategy for the Republican Party to be behind."
LaBarbera said he has heard that "hundreds, if not thousands" of calls were made to Steele's office in support of Americans for Truth's statement. The RNC didn't respond to a request to comment.
I was asked whether the bible-beating set is gaining momentum and whether they are any more vocal now than before the election. Since I stew in the anti-gay filth doing research for the blog so much it's hard to say. I may have a skewed perspective.
"I think they are desperate to have some more wins because, quite frankly, they spent a ton of money getting Prop 8 to pass, so they need to fill their coffers," she said. "And the fact that they don't have a hotline to the White House any longer means that they have to increasingly participate in activities that make them highly visible in order to keep the money coming in."So what do you think? More or less vitriol out there? Are they any better organized? After all, Daddy D had to lay off workers at FOTF after shooting his wad on Prop 8. I don't think these orgs are better positioned at all, but they do have more boots on the ground to call upon when launching an initiative.Spaulding said she didn't know whether anti-gay forces would succeed in passing a marriage amendment in North Carolina, but she predicted that if the groups are unable to pass any more anti-gay initiatives this year or in 2010, they will fall back on the line that "they are oppressed Christians and that any pro-LGBT efforts are squashing religious freedom."
"I think that this continued theme of being victimized by the homosexual agenda is their backup plan if the public decides that [it] isn't important enough to pass any anti-gay legislation," she said.
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crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
Quick note - For days One News Now has been speculating about the return of the Fairness Doctrine - about how it will harm Christian broadcasters and lead to censorship.
Yesterday, President Obama said he was against reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.
And there isn't even one article about it at One News Now.
How typical.
But the events over the past few days remind me about how delicious irony can be on occasion.
Last year around this time, Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern gave a speech where she said gays were worse than terrorists.
When the lgbt community complained, the religious right made her into the modern Joan of Arc.
It culminated into a huge rally for Kern at the Oklahoma State House that was attended by over 1,500 people.
A year later comes Utah State Senator Chris Buttars. In an interview with a documentary filmmaker, he said the following:
– To me, homosexuality will always be a sexual perversion. And you say that around here now and everybody goes nuts! But I don’t care.
– They say, I’m born that way. There’s some truth to that, in that some people are born with an attraction to alcohol.
– They’re mean! They want to talk about being nice — they’re the meanest buggers I ever seen. It’s just like the Moslems. Moslems are good people and their religion is anti-war. But it’s been taken over by the radical side. And the gays are totally taken over by the radical side.
– I believe that you will destroy the foundation of American society, because I believe the cornerstone of it is a man and a woman, the family. … And I believe that they’re, internally, they’re probably the greatest threat to America going down I know of. Yep, the radical gay movement.
Buttars has never been a friend to the lgbt community. In the interview, he also claimed that he "killed" gay/straight alliances in high schools, calling them places where gays "recruit."
But now he seems to be using the Donnie McClurkin defense (i.e. saying you were misquoted even when you are on video saying the remarks), so it's obvious that he realizes just how much trouble he is in.
Last year, the attention over Kern's remarks, especially the way she hid her lies (i.e. citing Paul Cameron studies) behind her religious beliefs and how some in the lgbt community dwelled on nonsense (i.e. whether or not her son was gay) bummed me out.
I refuse to be bummed out this year. I'm waiting for the religious right to defend Buttars.
But I suspect that they won't though for two reasons.
His comments were just ignant (i.e. something so dumb it doesn't deserve more than two syllables in the description of its ineptitude). I don't think anyone Christian (even if the person didn't "approve" of homosexuality) would want to associate themselves with Buttars's comments.
Most importantly, Buttars's comments ruins the religious right's schtick. Their entire image depends on being portrayed as innocent Christians being attacked by "rabid homosexual activists" simply because they are trying to uphold traditional values and morality.
Kern reminded people of a nice grandmother who occasionally gives out quarters and penny candy to children because of the nature of goodness in her heart.
Buttars reminds people of a crotchety old man who wildly waves his cane as he spews venom and tries to keep from soiling himself.
Everyone wants to defend the sweet old grandmother. But no one cares about the pissy old fart.
It just goes to show that sooner or later, kismet has a way of coming around.
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