A spokesperson for the Log Cabin Republicans has defended the group’s endorsement of Donald Trump in the 2020 election as well as downplayed the resignation of longtime board member Jennifer Horn.
Charles Moran took to Fox News (where else?) to try to qualify the baffling endorsement. The Trump administration has attacked LGBTQ rights almost nonstop since taking office, prompting Jennifer Horn to resign from the all-gay Republican group in disgust after the announcement.
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“Jennifer is a friend and up until 24 hours ago she was a fellow board member with me on the national board,” said Moran. “But like so many disaffected Republicans who have not been comfortable with President Trump and with his record, I look at the question of, ‘Is America better off now than it was four years ago and is the LGBT community better off now than it was four years ago?’ And under President Trump, the answer is inarguably, yes. President Trump is the first person elected president of the United States who supported gay marriage and also has a background supporting equality issues both as a businessman and as a philanthropist. But now also as a president of the United States.”
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“We always try to follow the rule of trust but verify,” Moran also added. “And looking at President Trump’s appointments, appointing people in our organization, taking meetings with our organization, and just really advancing the big causes that are important to the LGBTQ community.”
Trump’s appointees to the judiciary and his cabinet are some of the most ardently anti-queer justices in history. Judges like Brett Kavanaugh and Matthew J. Kacsmaryk have both criticized protections of LGBTQ works, transgender rights and marriage equality. Kacsmaryk has even referred to queer people as suffering from a psychological disorder.
In addition to the resignation of Jennifer Horn, a number of prominent leaders of local chapters of the Log Cabin Republicans have also resigned over the endorsement of Trump.
Cam
Log cabin became a group to give cover for bigoted Republicans.
Anybody notice the very suspicious timing of their endorsement? Right after Trump is attacked for his anti-LGBTQ bigotry, a non-functioning group that has basically ceased to exist shows up to give him an endorsement.
YourDad
100% agree ^^^ If the LCRs are sincere, they are naive fools being used.
LukeHill1389
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sanfranca1
What a tool.
Kieran
NEWSFLASH: Just because you’re gay doesn’t mean you have to be a loony leftist. Many gays can and do think for themselves on a whole host of issues. It’s called “diversity” and it should be celebrated. Not all gays are alike. Deal with it.
WillParkinson
Sweetie, you wanna be ignored and shut out, you go ahead and be a Republican. We honestly don’t care. BUT! Don’t you dare try to suck up the rights we’ve fought for while you keep showing you’re willing to take the crust of bread they offer.
These people say Trump has been good, but they when asked, they can’t point to anything that proves their point.
ShiningSex
No we don’t all have to agree. Thankfully. I think Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Madonna all suck.
That being said, endorsing or supporting a person/group that hates YOU, shows how ignorant you are and only support their causes for financial gain and have no self respect. Or you’re just a plain racist pig. Or both.
david_warner
Another self-loathing white homo adds his 2-cents of support to this hypocrisy! All LCR’s should be banned from our bars and gathering places because they’ve done nothing but fight against the gay rights movement from the beginning. Let’s hope Uncle Tom’s Cabin has room for all of you!
Cam
Notice how the right wing toll accounts never want to actually detail the positions of the “Looney Left” or the right wing?
Sorry sweetie, but if you’re trying to say that supporting politicians who have publicly stated they want to appoint judges to harm us, whose platform has a plank attacking us etc… is thinking for yourself. Nice try. All that says is you hate yourself enough that you let bigots think for you.
Kangol2
@Kieran, are you still shilling for that nutcase Trump-appointed gay ambassador to Germany that Germany’s politicians, across parties, agreed was a total disaster? Are you still defending Trump, a man who has appointed handfuls of anti-gay and homophobic judges to the federal courts, and is basically doing the bidding of radical anti-gay evangelicals? Are you still silent as your party, in state after state, passes laws to violate the rights and equality of LGBTQ? Yep, because you’re suffering from right-wing Stockholm Syndrome. That’s the definition of loony!
James
GET LOST YOU SOCIOPATH NAZI.
Paco
“appointing people in our organization”
Well then it is no mystery why they endorsed him.
“advancing the big causes that are important to the LGBTQ community”
What he really meant was – “advancing the big causes that are important to the Log Cabin Republicans”. I certainly haven’t benefited from anything Trump is claimed to have accomplished for the LGBTQ community.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Miss Thing be needing to run down to the clue store and buy a whole bunch…cause she don’t be having a single one …
RandomGuy
He’s a sad homo still looking for daddy’s approval refusing to face the fact that he’ll never get it.
michaelf7466
Log Cabin Republicans need long term therapy. I remember a time 35 years ago when I was an ardent defender of their homophobia and bigotry and antipathy towards anyone not like them (white, white collar, selfish, dislike most Americans). It took being in the closet and hating myself. How else could you support people who actively seek new ways consistently to take away and curtail your civil rights while also painting you in the worst ways for political gain. This is mental illness, pure and simple.
ShiningSex
Log Cabin Republicans need a therapist who loves a challenge.
They’re just too ignorant to bother with.
ShiningSex
Log cabin republicans are the stupidiest queens around. Self loathing and racist
youarederanged
Plenty of liberal racists! Have you read the comments on this site? Tons of examples. Hate is on both sides. Let’s not pretend otherwise.
hayesj
This man is an idiot.
Bytemenow
He has one of the most punchable faces I’ve seen in a very long time.
boymikefl
OMG, f*cking hysterical!
Kangol2
Why do White gay Republicans hate gay people so much that they would sell us down the river again and again? They even kissed up to George W. Bush when he was supporting anti-gay marriage laws across the US! Why are they so full of hate for themselves and other gay people?
Bytemenow
Look at his face. There’s your answer.
judysdad
Being white has nothing to do with it. A lot of the most vocal anti-gay people are POC. You should know that already.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Its a matter of survival. Mommy and daddy tell junior “look, we know your gay and we need you to do us a favor. We need you to get a few of you “girlfriends” together and form a group. You guys are going to be out of the closet with nothing to hide but you’re going to do it in a way where it reflects OUR values. The intentions of your group is to attract the poorer (the frustrated working class gays who are educated and grew up in segregated communities) gay men who want to get involved or feel involved but on a conservative angle. Think you can do it? No? Well here’s an incentive for you to reconsider the offer. Don’t do it and we cut off the funds from your trust fund? Ah, we knew you’d see it our way son. Thanks. You’re the champ.”
Or at least that’s what I saw when I looked at that video. How bout chu’?
justgeo
Call me shallow but just looks like another Trump piggy. EWH? How can I flush this article?
Paco
I think people seem to forget that the LCR aren’t a gay rights group. They are just another right wing group, with the same goals and agenda as other right wing groups, but just happen to only be gay in the bedroom. Even though I suspect the only sex they ever get is from touching themselves.
If you pay attention when they speak, you will quickly notice that LGBTQ rights and protections never seem to be mentioned when any gay republican begins listing the reasons why they support Trump. And if they do happen to say Trump has accomplished so much for the LGBTQ community, they never follow up with any examples. Because there are none.
gaym50ish
On Fox News Sunday, January 2016
CHRIS WALLACE: But — but just to button this up very quickly, sir, are you saying that if you become president, you might try to appoint justices to overrule the decision on same-sex marriage?”
DONALD TRUMP: “I would strongly consider that, yes.”
wancell
In November 2016, shortly after the presidential election, Trump told Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes that his personal view on same-sex marriage was “irrelevant” and that he was “fine with” same-sex marriage, stating that the issue was “settled” in the Obergefell decision.
wancell
The lack of tolerance on here and pettiness is appalling.
Look at the Democratic Strategist story on this site. Tagged as a “Republican Talking Point” when it is a Democratic strategist view.
Obama did not support gay marriage and used Biden to test whether it was okay to support it when the Supreme Court decision was being argued. Bill Clinton signed “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” into law and yes Congress during Obama’s time repealed it with Republican help in the Senate.
The world is more complex to be so narrow of mind and thought.
wancell
At least the strategist is back tracking now.
porque_loco
So Obama claimed not to support marriage equality in 2008 but came to support it.
Trump claimed to support marriage equality in 2016 but… well, who knows now, his positions change like a screensaver.
Don’t recall O ever talking repeal of Obergfell like T has. Or appointing judges, cabinet members or a VP who actively work to unwind LGBT protections under the guise of “religious liberty” among other tactics.
That’s not intolerant or petty, it’s just a fact.
Cam
Another new Screename here to try to deflect from the fact that REpublicans support harming LGBTQ people, and stripping away rights.
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
I’ve always viewed the Log Cabin Republicans as a group of rich kids who are out of the closet and decided on forming this group to show there are gay republicans who follow GOP values and won’t rock the boat. However, what happened in this case is a clear indication where many of them said “I’m a card carrying member of the GOP, yes, but there is only so much I will take.” Let us not forget a memorable chairman they named a generation ago, Abner Mason. They are progressive on some issues and it seems a few can think for themselves.
baggins435
I’ve never met anyone claiming to be a LCR. Maybe they aren’t in the South. My question is, is there any proof these idiots are even gay? Just asking since they seem to have no grasp of how the GOP, and Trump, actually feel about us.
Patrick
Now I understand why he is a member of the Log Cabin club. He is one of those homely gays that cannot get laid. Seriously, being a gay Republican is akin to being a Jewish Nazi.
youarederanged
LOL. Derangement in its purest form. Let me know when you find the Republican gas chambers for gays. You need help.
johnnymcmxxx
Why do all white male Log Cabin republicans look like Porky the pig?
Cam
One thing left out of all of this…is that the Log Cabin Republicans are’t really a real group anymore. Most of their chapters around the country have folded, they won’t publish their numbers, and they were exposed as having been given money from the RNC to run ads claiming gays support Republicans. They don’t even have enough dues to run an ad anymore.
This group is just a bank account that trotts out it’s few paid shills whenever Republicans do something particularly anti-LGBTQ
Roan
Rusty: “Aren’t you guys the same group that raised a sh*tload of money and gave it to Bob Dole’s campaign and he sent it back, didn’t he?”
LCR: “That’s because he would have lost support of the Christian right.”
Rusty: “Exactly. Because you’re gay. You’re gay. That’s why he sent it back. Aren’t you ashamed? All right, listen. You are right. We are different, but not in the way that you mean. We’re different because you are all ashamed of us, but we’re not ashamed of you. As long as you get down on those Banana Republican knees and suck d*ck honey, you’re all my sisters, and I love you. I do.”
Rusty: “God bless you.”
Rusty: “And f*ck off.”
James
HE NEEDS A STRAIGHT JACKET AND A LONG TERM MENTAL HOSPITAL.
youarederanged
And you’re the perfect guy to show him where he can find both.