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Log Cabin Republicans Aren’t So Sweet On Trump After Transgender Military Ban

After calling Donald Trump a “do no harm guy” in the past, the Log Cabin Republicans President Gregory T. Angelo via press release in response to President Trump’s newly-announced ban on transgender service members in the U.S. military:

This smacks of politics, pure and simple. The United States military already includes transgender individuals who protect our freedom day in and day out. Excommunicating transgender soldiers only weakens our readiness; it doesn’t strengthen it.

The president’s statement this morning does a disservice to transgender military personnel and reintroduces the same hurtful stereotypes conjured when openly gay men and women were barred from service during the military’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ era.

As an organization that led the charge against that hateful policy, Log Cabin Republicans remains equally committed to standing up for transgender military personnel who put their lives on the line to keep us free.

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Podcast: Yelp, Log Cabin Republicans, Beauty And The Beast, RuPaul’s Drag Race

On this week’s episode of The Randy Report podcast:

• Yelp will now offer a new searchable attribute to help patrons find gender-neutral restrooms

• Log Cabin Republicans are surprised to be surprised by “no-so-good-for-the-gays” President Trump

• The director of the new live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast reveals the film will feature Disney’s first-ever “exclusively gay moment” on film

• RuPaul’s Drag Race heads to a new network for Season 9 of the hit series

• This year’s Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Moonlight, is about to get even bigger

Listen below. Subscribe to The Randy Report podcast (for free!) on iTunes here 🙂

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Log Cabin Republicans On Anti-LGBT Republican Platform: “Losers! Morons! Sad!”

As hard as they try, the gay men and women of Log Cabin Republicans remind me of the Peanuts cartoons where “Lucy” fools “Charlie Brown” over and over again by yanking the football away before he can kick the ball.

Year after year LCR hope to get to be part of the Republican party. To be respected. And every year, the GOP shows disdain for the LGBT community.

The self-loathing is painful to watch.

This year, in the wake of the most anti-LGBT platform ever,  LCR has run a full page ad in the Cleveland edition of USA Today denouncing the virulently anti-LGBT positions taken this election year.

Via press release:

Log Cabin Republicans has placed a full-page ad in USA Today calling out the GOP Platform Committee for drafting the most anti-LGBT platform in the Republican Party’s 162-year history. The ad runs today in the Cleveland edition of the largest newspaper in the United States and will be available in most every hotel speakers, Delegates, and credentialed guests will be staying at during the Republican National Convention.

“Response from allies to our reaction in the wake of the drafting of this vitriolic anti-LGBT platform has been nothing short of staggering,” Log Cabin Republicans President Gregory T. Angelo stated. “The email sent to our members last week propelled Log Cabin Republicans to the top trend on Facebook for more than two days, and now holds the record as the highest-grossing single fundraising appeal this organization has ever sent. But this was fundraising with a purpose—I’m pleased to share that every last cent donated to Log Cabin Republicans via last week’s email has been spent on this project. This unprecedented support is representative of the GOP I know, and this is the GOP our members want to see.”

The provocative advertisement reads, “LOSERS! MORONS! SAD! No, these aren’t tweets from Donald Trump. This is what common-sense conservatives are saying about the most anti-LGBT platform the Republican Party has ever had. GOP Platform Committee: Out of touch, out of line, and out of step with 61% of young Republicans who favor same-sex marriage.”

“It’s my hope this advertisement will be a wake-up call to the intransigent and ancient voices on the GOP Platform Committee that marriage equality is the law of the land, gay families are a part of the fabric of America, and LGBT Republicans have an important role to play in growing the Party,” Angelo concluded.

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Log Cabin Republicans Are Shocked To Find Out The GOP Hates Them

Log Cabin Republicans are seemingly dumbstruck that their own political party hates them after having adopted a virulently anti-LGBT platform yet again for this year’s national convention.

This year’s platform opposes same-sex marriage rights, supports efforts to restrict bathrooms to individuals’ birth gender and protects businesses who refuse services to individuals based on religious objections to gay marriage. It also decrees “that ‘natural marriage’ between a man and a woman is most likely to result in offspring who do not become drug-addicted or otherwise damaged.”

In light of all that, Log Cabin Republicans want you to send them money – and lots of it – to fund their self-loathing field trip journey to the GOP convention next week in Cleveland so they can further beat themselves up “take back the platform.”

Get a clue, LCR. The right-wingers just aren’t that into you. And never were.

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Log Cabin Republicans Pay Homage To Their Congressional “Super Friends”

Log Cabin Republicans share this “Super Friends” parody saluting GOP members of Congress they view as LGBT allies.

Singled out in the clip are Rep. Mike Coffman, Sen. Susan Collins, Rep. Carlos Curbelo, Rep. Charlie Dent, Rep. Bob Dold, Rep. Chris Gibson, Rep. Richard Hanna, Sen. Mark Kirk, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Sen. Rob Portman, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

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Texas GOP to Log Cabin Republicans: We just aren’t that into you

Once again, the Log Cabin Republicans have been kicked to the curb by their fellow conservatives.

The Texas State Republican Convention will not allow the LCR to host a booth next week at it’s annual convention.

Via press release:

“Overall, Log Cabin Republicans of Texas has found incredible support within the Republican party — Texans, like the rest of the country, are evolving on LGBT rights issues,” said Log Cabin Republicans of Texas Chairman Jeffrey Davis.

“The Republican Party of Texas has even welcomed many of our members as delegates to the Texas State Republican Convention. However, the party has denied our several attempts to host a booth in the convention exhibit hall, citing archaic language in the party platform to support their actions.

“We deserve to occupy a booth just like anyone else, and it’s time that the Texas GOP’s hypocritical policies and procedures are replaced by new ones that match the general opinion of Texan Republican voters.”

According to Texas GOP Chairman Steve Munisteri the group was denied not because they are gay but because “of the association with the promotion for gay marriage” – which is not in the party’s platform.

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Log Cabin Republicans: “Reagan’s big tent isn’t what it used to be…”

Log Cabin Republicans has a full-page ad in Politico calling on the Republican Party to grow the proverbial “big tent” by dropping its opposition to granting equal rights to the LGBT community.

The ad is a part of LCR’s relaunch efforts, which will more aggressively challenge the GOP to not be beholden to the vocal minority within the party that oppose rights for gays and lesbians.

To be fair, Log Cabin Republicans benefit by being viewed as more clear on their mission statement than the “other” gay Republican organization, GOProud. LCR remember who they are and don’t fall into the trap of wanting to please the GOP masses to such an extent they lose their own identity.

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Log Cabin Republicans: “Our party dropped the hammer harder because we were there”

Log Cabin Republicans have long said that their presence in the GOP helps to further the fight for equality for the LGBT community. In fact, they were allowed to sit in on the drafting of the national party’s platform.

But looking back at a platform that is very anti-gay, Log Cabin Republicans now feel their presence possibly made the platform even more hostile to gays and lesbians.

From NPR interview:

“When you back someone into a corner, they fight back twice as hard,” said Casey Pick of the Log Cabin Republicans, a national organization representing the interests of gays and lesbians.

“The platform is ugly and harmful,” she said during a Wednesday gathering of same-sex marriage supporters at a law firm just across the Hillsborough River from the site of this week’s Republican convention in Tampa, Fla.

Pick, the Log Cabin’s program director and an evangelical Christian, characterized the tone of the party’s discussions about same-sex marriage in meetings of the Constitution subcommittee as largely “hostile.” “We lost,” she said. “And you could say the social conservatives in our party dropped the hammer harder because we were there.”

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Gay Republicans take out full page ad in Tampa Tribune supporting marriage equality

More Republicans I can like!

The Log Cabin Republicans and Young Conservatives for the Freedom To Marry are running a full page ad in the Tampa Tribune during the Republican National Convention asking the conservative party to join the clear path of history and get onboard with marriage equality. The ad points out how and why marriage equality fits into the conservative viewpoint.

From the Log Cabin Republicans press release:

The full-page color ad, featuring photos of same-sex couples and their families, emphasizes that the freedom to marry is fully consistent with principles valued by conservatives: freedom, personal responsibility, and the importance of family. The ad comes in the wake of the party’s extreme stance on marriage in its draft platform, which includes support for a federal constitutional amendment banning the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. Tony Perkins, the president of the anti-gay Family Research Council, authored the marriage plank, which is expected to be ratified at the convention.

“Gay or straight, Republicans are united in the belief that strong families are critical to a free society,” said R. Clarke Cooper, Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans. “As fellow conservatives, Log Cabin Republicans actually agree with Tony Perkins about the importance of family values. The difference is, we believe that the freedom to marry is directly in line with the core ideals and principles of the Republican Party – less government, more individual freedom, personal responsibility and the importance of family.”

“The writing is on the wall for the Republican Party: Stand up for the values they say they believe in, or risk being seen as irrelevant with younger conservatives,” said Sarah Longwell, Vice President at Berman and Company and a member of the Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry leadership committee. “This is a party that should support freedom – for all people, and all families.”

Here’s the ad below:

LogCabin TampaTrib Ad

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Log Cabin Republicans respond to Herman Cain’s claim that sexuality is a choice

R. Clark Cooper

“If Herman Cain truly wants to see the science proving that sexual orientation is not a choice, Log Cabin Republicans would be happy to show it to him. The claim that a person chooses to be gay or lesbian has been discredited by every major professional medical organization, starting with the American Psychological Association and the American Medical Association. An individual’s orientation is no more a choice than the color of his skin or whether he is left-handed, and too many people have been hurt because of failed attempts to change the way they were born.” – via press release from Log Cabin Republicans head R. Clark Cooper.