Waltzing with Nazis: The Log Cabin Republicans

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When a thief in the night comes to cut your throat, what do you do? Do you fight and struggle and call out for help? Or do you delightedly offer the evildoer a knife, and politely bare your neck for the blade?

The Log Cabin Republicans have chosen the latter course.

But now that the Texas Twit has taken illegal possession of the presidency, the Log Cabinites find themselves being wooed by those who were spitting on them in public mere months ago.

Like the withered spinster of a bad melodrama, struck giddy and girlish by the sudden and unexpected attentions of a disreputable suitor, these self-styled gay Republicans are so enchanted that they overlook the obvious. The right-wing leadership wants to use the Log Cabinites, briefly, to put a fake stamp of gay approval on its murderous agenda. And the Log Cabin is so thrilled to have someone--anyone! -- finally paying attention to them, that they will go along with the unholy alliance.

Never mind that the right wing's rare compliments for the group are, at their core, downright insulting. At a hastily-arranged "Republican Unity Breakfast" earlier this year, former GOP Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming addressed the group. Simpson is a close personal friend of both the Bush and Cheney families. The ex-Senator told gays in attendance how Mary Cheney, lesbian daughter of the vice- president is respected and loved.

It apparently escaped the notice of gay Republicans in the audience that Ms. Cheney did not attend the Unity Breakfast. Maybe she just wasn't feeling "respected" enough to lend her approval.

Simpson also told of a Wyoming friend who hadn't spoken to his lesbian daughter in five years and how he'd asked this friend how he could possibly "unlove" someone simply because of who they loved? Eventually the unnamed parent wrote a letter to his daughter and their relationship, reportedly, has since "grown and matured." Related Articles from the GayToday Archive:
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