Remembering Why I'm Not An LGBT Republican
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=1ABB919C2AA1BB110D5B9D4865FD2376?diaryId=7627Autumn Sandeen
10/18/2008
This week, the Washington Blade has a piece up by Dale Carpenter entitled Goodbye to the GLBT movement. In the piece, Carpenter explains why he concludes "that [the] marriage of gay left and gay conservatives has failed," as well as his belief that the language that LGBT (or as he writes, GLBT) progressives have been using against gay conservatives this election season has been the "worst vitriol" he's ever heard.
I believe Carpenter's conclusion entirely misses what's actually happening. I don't believe that the LGBT progressives that are spewing vitriol at Log Cabin Republicans because these folk have conservative ideologies, instead it's because the Log Cabin Republicans have stuck with the Republican party. In other words, Carpenter has conflated "Conservative" and "Republican" -- what many progressive LGBT people are commenting on isn't how Log Cabin Republicans are conservatives, but instead are commenting on how Log Cabin Republicans are Republicans.
