Flashback: Log Cabin: Whoring After Recognition

[Cannikin]

I have been reading reports of the LogCabin group agreeing to meet with John Ashcroft, following all this contretemps about his anti-gay record and, potentially, some outright lies to the Justice Committee. It appears that the Log Cabin folk are willing to go whoring after recognition regardless of the facts. A more amoral tack I cannot imagine. Will they REALLY sell themselves so cheaply? Moreover, are we going to ALLOW them to sell themselves that cheaply without comment?

Ashcroft is offering these misguided homo-Republicans thirty seconds of exposure on the evening news if they'll endorse his position -- that's what it boils down to. I guess the Log Cabin boys are so desperate for legitimacy that they are actually willing to take the offer. If I had any sympathy for the Log Cabin before, it is gone now -- no intelligent person can reasonably support Ashcroft for Attorney General, period, all partisanship aside.
Teddy Snyder

http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/penpoints/012901pp.htm

[opihimoimoi]

1. They are Republicans after all. They will take the 30 seconds

and talk to the others in the closet/etc to vote Pub/

[rpannier]

2. There are sell-outs in each group.

In the 19th century, there were Native Americans who willingly gave in to those who would destroy them, for promises of land and wealth. They were killed right along with the Natives who fought back. During the Nazi rise in Europe, there were Jews who did business with the Nazi's claiming, "Hitler is just using rhetoric, he doesn't really want to kill all Jews." The Log Cabin Republicans have just picked up and are carrying the torch of self-destruction that previous person within persecuted groups have. I only hope they don't go the way of those people.

[Cannikin]

3. What happened to learning history so we dont repeat it?

Now we use the mistakes of history as a freakin' guide book.