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Rights and Liberties

Will John McCain Turn His Back on Gay Americans?

By Deb Price, AlterNet. Posted February 11, 2008.


After actively working to defeat Mitt Romney, Log Cabin Republicans hope John McCain will support gay rights. What does his record tell us?



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Deb Price of The Detroit News writes the first nationally syndicated column on gay issues. To find out more about Deb Price and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.

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Posted by: Sil on Feb 11, 2008 3:54 PM   
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Of course he'll turn their back on them! Geez! Did you see him sucking the toes of that CPAC crowd after Super Duper Ooper Tuesday? Did you see him say in the debate he was fine with gay marriage, get booed, then 10 minutes later change his stance on where he stood?

How desperate do you have to be to place your hope in John McCain for standing by his duped gay supporters?

The man has changed his position on everything from the Iraq war being won and done quickly, to Bush's tax cuts, to flattering Karl Rove a few days ago and welcoming his advice, to giving speeches at the "universities" of the people he called "agents of intolerance". Log Cabin Republicans are pulling for him to stand by them? Good luck with that! Just don't come looking to me for sympathy afterwards if you do!

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Honestly...
Posted by: Xynyx on Feb 11, 2008 4:08 PM   
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I don't give a rat's ass about the LCR or about what they think. They've made their bed, and they've made it quite clear that they're happy there. Fuck them.

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» RE: Honestly... Posted by: yogendra2
You're kidding me, right?
Posted by: NthAvenue on Feb 11, 2008 4:34 PM   
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Anyone, straight or gay, that votes for McCain is a moron.

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» RE: You're kidding me, right? Posted by: charles@cadgwith.com
McCain & Gays
Posted by: FedUp on Feb 11, 2008 5:59 PM   
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Is there a bloodsucking, viper-tongued, lying politician who won't throws gays in a bonfire to get a vote!?

As Xynyx so eloquently stated about the LCR : "Fuck them."
They weren't at Stonewall, and they'd pass McCain a book of matches if he agreed to throw black and brown gays and women on that bonfire.
Like many people, they benefited from the head-bashings that queens like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha Johnson got, compliments of NYPD.
Trust me; the night of the Stonewall riot the likes of the slithering worms who compose the LCR were drinking with GW Bush, the Criminal.

These Brownshirts bring nothing to the gay table.

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If McCain flip-flopped any more,
Posted by: lepidopteryx on Feb 12, 2008 8:27 AM   
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you could put him on your feet and wear him to the beach.

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Yick - the Log Cabin Republicans
Posted by: arieden on Feb 12, 2008 9:36 AM   
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I guess the LCR is just thrilled when they have a candidate that doesn't want to put them in a concentration camp with pink triangles on.
They're so grateful for that progressive stance!
(They deserve whatever they get)

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UNCLE TOM'S CABIN REPUBLICANS
Posted by: Longdream on Feb 12, 2008 4:20 PM   
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I've never understood them. They make my teeth hurt.

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LCR in for more disappointment...
Posted by: Gungneir on Feb 13, 2008 7:03 AM   
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"I called upon this god/To deliver unto me/To grant what I desire/He brought me to my knees/He turned his back on me/And filled me with his lies/Ask and I received/Damnation was the price."

--Jon Schaffer
"Slave to the Dark"

As has been pointed out elsewhere, the John McCain of 2000 would have probably kept his word. Not this year's model, no matter what happens.

While I applaud the LCR for not automatically siding with the Dems due to sexual orientation and for realizing that, as an independent third party, they would be squashed, I question the wisdom in their continuing to stand by the GOP. Since at least 1980, the Republicans have not been friendly to any considered outside the Moral Majority position. Yet, election after election, the LCR pin their hopes on these people to bring them justice (if anyone can cite an instance in which the LCR didn't, please let me know).

John McCain will simply be the latest misfire in a string of disappointments. He'll use them until they outlive their usefulness. Then they'll be shunted aside. To believe anything else is to smoke from the same crack pipe as the people who think that Iraq was a good idea.

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McCain
Posted by: Schroeder on Feb 13, 2008 5:46 PM   
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How totally damned sad. He sold his soul today...when he voted in favor of torture! Yup, he's a panderer. How strong the thirst for power is...it overrides the fear of being tortured to death. Never thought he'd turn on that one!

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Very Puzzling!
Posted by: paula.c on Feb 13, 2008 6:26 PM   
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Why would ANY homosexual/bisexual or other belong to the Republican party? The "conservative Republicans" cannot be trusted to protect their rights.

My advice: change your party affiliation NOW!
There is a new breath of fresh air blowing.

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ARE THESE PEOPLE KIDDING.............................
Posted by: yogendra2 on Feb 13, 2008 7:59 PM   
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I am always absolutely flabbergasted when I hear any gay person or minority say they are a member of the republican political party. DON'T GAYS AND MINORITIES KNOW THAT REPUBLICANS HATE THEM---LONG HISTORY OF THIS HATRED AND DISCRIMINATION---- AND IF THEY COULD GET AWAY WITH IT, REPUBLICANS WOULD BEGIN BUILDING OVENS IN THE UNITED STATES AND STOKING THE FIRES. WAKE UP, FOLKS. Yogi, tucson

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Moronic Oxymoron
Posted by: jmmartin on Feb 13, 2008 8:50 PM   
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"Gay Republicans" -- isn't that an oxymoron? Naw, they're just a bunch of sadomasochistic queens who like to vote for the party of homophobes, religious bigots, and crypto-fascists who'd put them in concentration camps (a la Gomer Shuckabee) with pink triangles on their armbands. Go figure! How sick can you get?

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WHY IS IT SO MANY OF THE STRAIGHT MEN........
Posted by: magiquarian1969 on Feb 15, 2008 10:36 AM   
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WHO LOOK LIKE ASS ON A BAD DAY ARE HOMOPHOBIC??????? The ego of the straight neandrothal is without comparison. Who the hell are these people dictating what rights a group of people deserve. EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW is a right of ALL citizens! We SAY we believe this, the civil rights era preached it, so many will get on their soap box and scream that America is the greatest country in the world, what a melting pot, land of the free home of the brave, etc. crap and yet small minded, self-loathing people IN PRACTICE keep us in the Dark Ages.

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The Better Question
Posted by: dgreatone on Feb 17, 2008 2:07 PM   
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Will John McCain Turn His Back on Gay Americans?

I have a better question:

Why have the Democrats in the US Congress turned their back on gay Americans?

Please list all the gay accomplishments brought by Hillary, Obama, Nancy, Barney and the Democrat Congressional leadership in the past two years. Please be brief. (Looks like you have no choice except to be brief).

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» RE: The Better Question Posted by: FedUp
» RE: The Better Question Posted by: Longdream
» RE: The Better Question Posted by: FedUp
» RE: The Better Question Posted by: rickiey
Civil Unions are not the answer
Posted by: FedUp on Feb 17, 2008 11:51 PM   
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