Conservatives Threaten to Abandon GOP if Republicans Stop Hating Gays

[Tx4obama]

Conservatives Threaten to Abandon GOP if Republicans Stop Hating Gays

All this talk of rebranding the elephant has conservatives worked up. When they’re not threatening Republican lawmakers over imaginary takeovers by the UN, they’re writing letters to their own party leadership to dictate the party platform. As usual, no compromise will be endured.

Representatives of various evangelical/social conservative/Tea Party Republicans, including Dr. James Dobson, warned poor, lost RNC Chair Renice Priebus this week via a letter that he better stop trying to bring the GOP into the 2000s, according to NBC News. Priebus better not change the party’s position on marriage equality or else the conservatives are taking a walk.

In the letter that was independently verified by NBC News, conservatives warn that the 2013 platform better read like the glorious 2012 platform, with bans on abortion and gay marriage. Luckily for the GOP, which is trying to rebrand itself, Kirsten Kukowski, an RNC spokeswoman, assures conservatives that the RNC’s 2013 platform will be just like the old one, because nothing says rebranding like keeping the same extremist policies. Just a few votes on the matter and all will be well.

The conservatives insisted that they don’t hate gays, and the idea that they do is very upsetting, “The fact that the party is strongly committed to traditional marriage has not prevented their involvement through GOProud or Log Cabin Republicans. We deeply resent the insinuation that we have treated homosexuals unkindly personally.”

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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/evangelicals-threaten-abandon-gop-republicans-stop-hating-gays.html

[robinlynne]

1. The title really sounds like the Onion. I mean really.

[Thinkingabout]

2. More good news for Democrats, a gift that keeps on giving. i hear from one of the

Conservatives the Republicans are not racist and don't discriminate, yep they do. It is only about 80 in the house, it is time to show where their power is and dump them. It would solve lots of problems for Boehner.

[notadmblnd]

3. So there will be even less republicans getting out to vote.

go for it Mr Dobson, please.

[apnu]

4. Being honest, and not snarky or partisan....

... this is probably for the best for the GOP. The religious and bigoted right is killing the party, and will continue to kill the party until there are only a handful of Republicans left in office.

If the GOP wants to survive going forward, the have to eject the knuckle-draggers.

[yellowcanine]

5. Title should be: "Religious whack jobs threaten to abandon GOP if....."

They aren't "Conservatives" in the historical sense at all. Barry Goldwater certainly didn't think so and while I disagreed with Barry on many things, this was one area where we saw eye to eye.