BREAKING NEWS: NGLTF DECRIES GAY GOP WITCHHUNT
It is about time. While there are crickets chirping on the Outing Witchhunt over at Log Cabin (Republicans) and the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force at least a semblance of a spine to stand up to the sexual McCarthyites preying on GOP Congressional staffers.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force calls upon Democrats, Republicans and straight allies to stand up for gay AmericansThe National Gay and Lesbian Task Force today condemned emerging attempts to shift responsibility for the Foley scandal by blaming gay Republican congressional staffers for supposedly covering up prior reports of predatory behavior by former Rep. Mark Foley.
Discussions of a supposed network of closeted gay Republicans working on Capitol Hill have swept the blogs and been raised on MSNBC and CBS. There are allegations, for example, that gay former Foley aide Kirk Fordham, the recently resigned chief of staff for Tom Reynolds (R-NY), worked to play down complaints about Foley’s behavior.
Fordham has said that more than three years ago he had “more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene.”
Statement from Matt Foreman, Executive Director National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
The GOP has only one response when it’s in trouble — ‘blame the gays.’ First, they floated the excuse that past complaints about Foley weren’t pursued because Republicans didn’t want to look like they were ‘gay bashing.’ Then, they dispatched henchmen like Tony Perkins and Pat Buchanan to offer the blood libel that gay men are prone to pedophilia.
Now — in another signal of desperation — it is clear they plan to poison the debate further with allusions to a shadowy network of closeted gay Republicans who closed ranks to protect Foley.
“The parallels to McCarthyism are chilling. Here it is gays, not communists, ‘operating at the highest levels of government.’
“There is no doubt that allegations of Foley’s misconduct were brought directly to the attention of the Republican leadership of the House. They chose to look the other way. They alone are to blame.
“While many Democrats may be taking real pleasure in watching the GOP twist and turn, it’s long past time for them –– and other leaders –– to denounce these shameful, gay-baiting, responsibility-evading tactics.”
Now this blog has never been friendly to Foreman or the NGLTF, and I’m not surprised at their predictably liberal-take on the witchhunt. It is especially disappointing given the fact that they know ”The List” was compiled and has been used by Gay Liberals for years now. But at least they are asking their Democrat masters to help stop this witchhunt.
Meantime at Log Cabin.org…. they are still praising the election win of Lincoln Chafee. If a gay Republican group was going to have any influence on any topic… now would be the time!
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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My response to NGLTF; you and your supporters are the ones who repeatedly make the claim that all gay Republicans are perverts and who send people out to dig up dirt on us.
Don’t act surprised that it is so easily generalized to “all gays are perverts” and that the antigay Dems who have abused you for political advantage in the past without you objecting are doing it again by encouraging that idea — and using the evidence that you and yours dug up.
If you want to be helpful, acknowledge for the first time in your life that gay Republicans are no different than anyone else, and that gay people can hold whatever political beliefs they like.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — October 5, 2006 @ 3:12 pm - October 5, 2006
I agree with Bruce on this one. Log Cabin needs to agressively confront this witch hunt. As a very active LCR member and state leader, I ask that the National office get in front of this ASAP.
Comment by Bobo — October 5, 2006 @ 3:25 pm - October 5, 2006
Dem Activists: We have found a fag! May we burn him!
Congressional Republican Staffer: I’m not a Fag I’m not a Fag!
Sir Bedevere: But you are dressed as one
Congressional Republican Staffer: *They* dressed me up like this!
Crowd: We didn’t! We didn’t…
Activist 1: Well, we did do the leather cap.
Sir Bedevere: The cap?
Activist 1: And the buttless chaps, but he is a Fag!
Crowd: Yeah! Burn him! Burn him!
Sir Bedevere: Did you dress him up like this?
Activist 1: No!
Activist 2: No!
Activist 3: No!
Activist 1: Yes!
Activist 2: Yes!
Activist 1: Yeah a bit.
Activist 3: A bit!
Activist 2: A bit
Activist 1: But he has got a lisp!
Sir Bedevere: What makes you think he’s a Fag?
Activist 3: Well, he turned me into a Secular humanist!
Sir Bedevere: A Secular Humanist?
Activist 1: [meekly after a long pause] … I got better.
Crowd: [shouts] Burn him anyway!
Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether he is a fag.
Activist 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with fags?
Activist 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from Fags?
Activist 1: More Fags.
Activist 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do Fags burn?
Activist 3: …because they’re made of… wood?
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether he is made of wood?
Activist 1: Build a highway rest area out of him.
Sir Bedevere: But can you not also build highway rest areas out of stone?
Activist 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
Activist 1: No, no, it floats!… It floats! Throw him into the pond!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Activist 1: Bread.
Activist 2: Subpeonas.
Activist 3: Very small rocks.
Activist 1: Lattes.
Activist 2: Shiraz.
Activist 3: Slime.
Activist 1: Mud.
Activist 2: Churches.
Activist 3: Mary Jo Kopechne!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere: …Exactly. So, logically…
Activist 1: If he weighs the same as a duck… he’s made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore…
Activist 2: …A Fag!
Comment by V the K — October 5, 2006 @ 3:34 pm - October 5, 2006
V, I haven’t laughed like that since last week’s post of the Clinton “interview.” You are tops, man!
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — October 5, 2006 @ 3:39 pm - October 5, 2006
VtheK, …..Bwahahhahahaah!!
Bobo, ….There’s no-one at home at LCR-National, so why expect a statement? The National Board must get their act in gear and appoint a new LCR President, political director, field director, exec. director or communications director BEFORE LCR-Natl even has a voice. What are they waiting for?….the 2006 fall election returns?
Comment by Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — October 5, 2006 @ 4:02 pm - October 5, 2006
Patrick Sammon is a capable guy and I’m hoping that he’ll get on this ASAP. The report by Drudge that this was a prank/setup of Foley, if true, should make this a lot easier politically since then the only one harmed was Foley himself. That would make the witch hunt a striaghtforward anti-gay action that any but the most partisan lefties (and we know who they are here) should oppose in the strongest terms.
Comment by Bobo — October 5, 2006 @ 4:14 pm - October 5, 2006
More! More! V the K!
Comment by Tom — October 5, 2006 @ 5:44 pm - October 5, 2006
Thanks Pete. Thanks Ted. Tom, Six Days at week at my blog. Take as much as you want.
Comment by V the K — October 5, 2006 @ 5:57 pm - October 5, 2006
Good posts on this issue, GP. Just for the record (and I’ve commented on this before on one or two other threads), I’m a liberal Dem., but I absolutely do NOT support/advocate outing. I think outing is an abomination, and a gross violation of humanity in general.
Comment by ndtovent — October 5, 2006 @ 8:36 pm - October 5, 2006