{"id":1183,"date":"2004-10-19T12:48:36","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/10\/19\/how-the-gop-feels-about-lesbians-and-gays\/"},"modified":"2004-10-19T12:48:36","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T20:48:36","slug":"how-the-gop-feels-about-lesbians-and-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1183","title":{"rendered":"How the GOP feels about lesbians and gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indegayforum.org\/culturewatch\/2004_10_10_archive.shtml#109772106795250128\">Stephen Miller<\/a>, of the conservative Independent Gay Forum, collects some recent quotes from Republican leaders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rep. Tom Coburn (the GOP Senate candidate in Oklahoma): &#8220;[L]esbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they&#8217;ll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that&#8217;s happened to us?&#8221;\n<li>Rep. Jim DeMint (the GOP Senate candidate in South Carolina): &#8220;If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.&#8221;\n<li>Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kansas): &#8220;Marriage is a privilege the State should protect, but it is not a right for same-sex partners, multiple partners, or any configuration of people and animals that express love for one another.&#8221;\n<li>Mel Martinez (the GOP Senate candidate in Florida): Blasted his primary opponent as &#8220;anti-family&#8221; and &#8220;the new darling of the homosexual extremists&#8221; because he supported a hate crimes bill that included gays.<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, as Stephen has frequently pointed out, the Democrats &#8211; while not as openly full of hatred &#8211; have certainly been underwhelming in their support for lesbian and gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>Via Stephen, <a href=\"http:\/\/washblade.com\/2004\/10-15\/view\/index.cfm\">Chris Crain in the Washington Blade <\/a>praises the Log Cabin Republicans for their political courage in criticizing Bush; and takes their Democratic counterparts the Stonewall Democrats, to task for their nonstop toadying to Kerry. He&#8217;s got a damn good point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Miller, of the conservative Independent Gay Forum, collects some recent quotes from Republican leaders: Rep. Tom Coburn (the GOP Senate candidate in Oklahoma): &#8220;[L]esbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they&#8217;ll only let &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1183\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}