John McCain’s obviously not ready to come out for the gays. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has kept up a series of off-the-record meetings with the Log Cabin Republicans.
We’ve known for a while that McCain and the gay GOP group have been holding talks, but apparently things are getting serious. Too bad everyone’s remaining mum:
Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon confirmed his meeting with Senator McCain earlier today.
A source with close ties to the Log Cabin Board of Directors provided information about the meeting to GayPatriot earlier this week. This source disclosed that the Log Cabin meeting was not reflected on Senator McCain’s published schedule in advance and the meeting. A second source familiar with the Log Cabin-McCain meeting reports that Senator McCain has routine personal meetings that are not shown on the Senator’s public schedule.
The specific timeframe of the Sammon-McCain meeting is not completely clear, but appears to have taken place within the past couple weeks or so.
Log Cabin President Patrick Sammon confirmed the meeting with Senator McCain in email correspondence with GayPatriot earlier today: “We’ve had a series of productive meetings with the campaign since Sen. McCain won the nomination–including a recent meeting with the Senator. We expect to have more conversations with the campaign as we head toward November.”
Sammon and his fellow Log Cabinites have yet to endorse McCain, so obviously they’re not ready to come out for him, either. Don’t you just love the smell of shameful, forbidden political love?!
Rock
Gay Republicans = Jewish Nazis.
todd
How sad – they have to keep it all on the DL like it were 1985. McSame is proving a throwback to the Reagan Era, and that’s not what is needed now.
queerunity
id say the only plus is atleast he is meeting with them
http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com
ggreen
I find it interesting that the LCR’s didn’t disclose the meeting place. I assume it was at the Minneapolis Airport men’s room in the “Senator Larry Craig memorial stallâ€. McCranky sat on the stool while the LCR’s stood with feet inside shopping bags.
l
Ggreen, thanks for the shopping bag tip. LOL
ousslander
if that’s true rocky them gay dems= maasah loving slaves
Charles J. Mueller
Birds of a feather flock together.
nikko
He looks like Divine (Glenn Milstead) out of costume in this picture!!!!
key
How many Gay Republicans could there possibly be?
I thought they were an urban myth.
Sean
Plenty of them down here in Texas, Key. Side with the GOP on pretty much everything but GLBT issues. I have friends with trucks with an HRC sticker right next to their Bush/Cheney 04 bumper sticker. Still think they’re wrong, but they exist.
Besides, nothing like riding a cowboy. Yee-haw! 😉
CHURCHILL-Y
Great point Ousslander given all the falsehood and double talk coming from Obama on Gay issues, gay dems= Second class American citizens or more simply GLBT Jim Crow lovers.
mark
Sounds like these secret meetings take place in the bushes of some Dupont Circle cruise area, no doubt the meetings are brief and unsatisfying to all parties.I expect so little from teeny tiny minority of LGBT Republicans, who in my opinion should be hiding their faces in shame, (for the rest of this century), for the barbaric years of Cheney/Bush HELL.
blake
Church-Nazi,
You’re one to talk about “double talk.” Considering that you are a white supremacist who posted a link from a white supremacist website, you are a hypocrite. Someone who decries second class treatment but engages in discriminatory behavior doesn’t talk with much credibility.
It’s always funny how you rip on Obama when he scored 9/10 of the Human Rights Commission’s survey on gay rights. Didn’t you say that you supported John Edwards who shared the same position as Obama on civil unions? What’s the difference between the two? One’s white and the other’s half-white/half-black?
Obama’s website has a section devoted to LGBT issues. He supports full equality of civil unions at the federal level and repeal of DOMA, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, enactment of ENDA, etc.
Anyone goes to Google and does a search
“site:queerty.org churchill-y black blacks obama”
would find a treasure of your racially motivated attacks on Obama. That same searcher would find you attacking black Queerty readers with racist tinged innuendo with words like “ghetto,” “projects,” and “Moesha.”
The more you spew your hatred, the more that others on this site will step up to remind people who you really are and point out your long history of anti-black bias.
From the Obama Website:
http://pride.barackobama.com/page/content/lgbthome
* SUPPORTS Federal Recognition of State-Level Same-Sex Unions
o Position overrides Section 3 of the “Defense of Marriage Act” which states that for only federal purposes the definition of marriage is a legal-union between a man and a woman as husband and wife. The word spouse only refers to a person of the opposite sex who is a husand or a wife.
* SUPPORTS passage of ENDA
o Proposed federal bill thaat would prohibit job discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
* SUPPORTS passage of the Matthew Sheperd Act
* DOES NOT SUPPORT same-sex marriage (only Kucinich did)
* SUPPORTS Civil Unions
* SUPPORTS Federal Benefits for Same-Sex Couples
* SUPPORTS coverage under the FMLA (Federal and Medical Leave Act)
* SUPPORTS Access to Survivor Benefits
* SUPPORTS Equal Tax Treatment
* SUPPORTS Domestic Partner Benefits for Federal Employees
* SUPPORTS Same-Sex Adoption
* SUPPORTS Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
* SUPPORTS Immigration
o The Uniting American Families Act to allow an American citizen to petition for immigration sponsorship for a same-sex partner
* SUPPORTS Funding for HIV/AIDS
* SUPPORTS Comprehensive Same Sex-Education
John McCain’s stance:
http://www.hrc.org/equality08/mccain.htm
A Record of Opposing the Interests of GLBT Americans
OPPOSED Ending Discrimination Against GLBT Americans in the Workplace. Senator McCain cast a deciding vote against the federal Employment Non Discrimination Act.
OPPOSED Protecting GLBT Americans from Hate Crimes. Senator McCain voted three times against expanding the federal hate crimes law to include sexual orientation.
PROPONENT of Discriminatory Military Policy. Senator McCain supports Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and does not believe that gays should serve in the military.
OPPONENT of Equal Benefits for Same-Sex Couples. Senator McCain voted for the Defense of Marriage Act which prohibits same-sex couples from receiving federal rights and benefits in any state.
ACTIVELY SUPPORTED State Ban on Domestic Partnerships. Senator McCain campaigned for a ban on same-sex relationship recognition in his home state of Arizona – even appearing in a campaign television ad.
SUPPORTED the Confirmation of Anti-GLBT Equality Judges. Senator McCain voted to confirm President Bush’s judicial nominees who had taken anti-GLBT positions. He has pointed to Justice Samuel Alito as a role model for future Supreme Court appointments.
SUPPORTED a Discriminatory HIV/AIDS Policy. Senator McCain supported a Jesse Helms strategy to cut off funding for prevention efforts aimed at the gay community and voted to prohibit foreign nationals with HIV from immigrating to the United States.
mark
Log Cabin is the Republican equivalent to Monica. Hide under the desk, crawl on your knees, and we promise not to cum in your mouth…although we do have a bad habit of pissing all over your self worth, and wiping our fat asses with your last shred of dignity.
CHURCHILL-Y
Hey y’all ! There’s a party going down at Obamas crib and as you can expect the usual homies are gonna be there:
http://www.obamameeksrecord.wordpress.com/
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4831
And after the religious black supremacist homophobic service all the attendees will get the chance to move what the good lord gave them at the tunes of some of Baracks favorite artists:
“In an interview with Rolling Stone to be published later this week, presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama has revealed some of the contents of his personal iPod. “I have pretty eclectic tastes,†said Obama, who said he had music from a wide range of artists on his iPod, from Miles Davis and John Coltrane to Jay-Z and Ludacris. Obama, who grew up in the 1970’s, said he listened to the Rolling Stones (his favorite Stones track is the seminal “Gimme Shelter”), Elton John, and Earth Wind and Fire, adding that Stevie Wonder was his “musical hero†of the period.
Interestingly, Obama also had a wide selection of tracks from Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ favorite Bob Dylan, including the entire Blood on the Tracks album. “Actually, one of my favorites during the political season is ‘Maggie’s Farm,’ “ Obama said. “It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric.†In the song, Dylan sings about trying be himself, “but everybody wants you to be just like them.†Many musicians appearing on Obama’s iPod have lent him their support during his campaign, including Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. “I’ve got to say, having both Dylan and Bruce Springsteen say kind words about you is pretty remarkable,†Obama said. “Those guys are icons.â€
Obama also admits to having concerns over the the content of some rap music to which his daughters might be exposed. “I am troubled sometimes by the misogyny and materialism of a lot of rap lyrics,†he said, “but I think the genius of the art form has shifted the culture and helped to desegregate music.†He went on to call hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and rappers Jay-Z and Ludacris “great talents and great businessmen,†adding that “it would be nice if I could have my daughters listen to their music without me worrying that they were getting bad images of themselves.—
Y’all will shake your asses at the beat of some of Ludacris greatest hits:
‘0 Mystikal’
“start a fight dog, ruin the party So move bitch, get out the way hoe All you faggot motherfuckers make way for 2-0 So…â€
‘Hoes In my room’
“Then it got to my head, and somethin’ reminded me
I know who let ‘em in, it was Bill O’ Reilly, faggot
Ya white bread, chicken-shit niggaâ€
‘Go 2 Sleep’
“Cause I slang brown, white, yellow, purple and green
And all you faggot-muthafuckas gotta know the routineâ€
Just remember if you don’t like it then you’re a racist or a “Nazi” like these people:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2008/02/214306.php
Mr C
Isn’t Churchychicken the funniest prejudice abhorrent, dysfunctional queen you’ve ever heard? This is the 4th time this queen has quoted a rap song from 9 yrs ago.
Gotta love this piece of shit
BITCH IS A JOKE!
dfrw
Why do we care about LCR? Is there a discriminatory social policy that provides a tax cut in the works if McBush wins?
Disgusted American
I think EVERY non LCR should SHUN the LCR’s…they ARE TRAITORS! They are SELFISH,GREEDY,TURN-COATS…I know there are too many issues more important to society as a whole…but, when you have the GOP,and thier Religious Freaks TRYINg to TAKE AWAY,and PREVENT LGBT Americans from having any Equalityu…that TRUMPS everything. I do NOT associate, and WILL NOT associate with any LCR’s.
Konrad
“Senator McCain cast a deciding vote against the federal Employment Non Discrimination Act.”
SUPPORTING NGLTF’s position. Guess McCain is in line to get a big PAC contribution from the Task Force.
ezywonder
It took me years and years, but I support the Log Cabin or any other gay republicans. I have come to understand that gays and lesbians have to be EVERYWHERE if we are going to effect change. Painful but true.
(It’s like when Nixon went to Red China. Or when Lincoln placed many of his staunchest enemies right in his cabinet.)
Charles J. Mueller
And while the Log Cabin Republicans are having their secret “trysts” with McShame, that prick has emailed a religious group, throwing his support behind the anti-marriage equality platform that they support. Here’s a copy and paste of it.
“The ProtectMarriage.com campaign says it received an e-mail from McCain Thursday in which the Arizona senator expressed his support for the group’s efforts “to recognize marriage as a unique institution between a man and a woman.”
How does it feel to get knifed in the back, all you LCR McShame suckers? But then, y’all all are kind of used to that, aren’t you?
Never did understand sado-masochistic relationships. Don’t think I ever will either.
Bats
Does anyone else have any experience with this?