Pretzel Logic: The Log Cabin boys weigh in on Mehlman
Pridesource: GOP national chair avoids question about his sexuality
AKRON, Ohio - "[You] have asked a question people shouldn't have to answer," said Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman to a reporter asking if he is gay.
Mehlman was interviewed after he spoke to the Summit County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day dinner March 19 at Quaker Station.
"I'm here to say thank you," Mehlman told the gathering, "because Summit County increased its votes for George W. Bush from 2000 to 2004 more than any other county."
Mehlman managed the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign and, according to the campaign's Ohio co-chair, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, directed Ohio anti-gay activists to mount the campaign to put the Issue 1 marriage ban amendment on the ballot.
Internet bloggers have pointed out that if Mehlman, 38, unmarried and never with female companionship, is gay, he is a hypocrite.
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Four members of the Cleveland Log Cabin Republican group attended the dinner to hear Mehlman.
"He almost said it," said Parker Bosley, in reference to what he wished would have been Mehlman's full embrace of LGBT Republicans.
"I think it was because he said reach out to everyone," said Bosley. "But not including gays is not a reason not to join."
Lessee... if a double negative is a positive, then a triple negative is a negative. So "not including gays is not a reason not to join" is...
BLAMMO!
Sorry, my head just exploded. Allow me a moment to reassemble the pieces and I'll be with you shortly.
Bosley said conservative gays and lesbians who don't want to be "the lap dog of Democrats" can contribute to the Republican Party "just like black people."
Oh, yes indeedy. The Republicans welcome self-loathing minorities as well as sinners of all stripes, so long as you embrace the concept of letting the rich and powerful keep all of their money and bashing queers and stuff.
Fred Bachhuber said he expected not to hear a LGBT welcome from Mehlman.
"He just can't do it yet," said Bachhuber, "but as long as he's sleeping with men behind the scenes, that's all I care about."
Now it is clear to me. Thank you, Mr. Bachhuber. Having legal rights, protection under the law, and the right to be who you are in the open is as dangerous and sinful as the Mehlmans of the world want to make it. But as long as he is a secret sodomizer (or sodomizee?), that's good enough for you.
I guess that's why I'm so baffled by you bozos. I don't give a damn who he sleeps with. I don't give a damn who you sleep with. I do care about your right not to be fired for it, or refused the right to visit your partner in the hospital for it, or to be tied to a split-rail fence, tortured, beaten and pistol-whipped and left for dead in near freezing temperatures for it.
But that's just me.
AKRON, Ohio - "[You] have asked a question people shouldn't have to answer," said Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman to a reporter asking if he is gay.
Mehlman was interviewed after he spoke to the Summit County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day dinner March 19 at Quaker Station.
"I'm here to say thank you," Mehlman told the gathering, "because Summit County increased its votes for George W. Bush from 2000 to 2004 more than any other county."
Mehlman managed the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign and, according to the campaign's Ohio co-chair, Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, directed Ohio anti-gay activists to mount the campaign to put the Issue 1 marriage ban amendment on the ballot.
Internet bloggers have pointed out that if Mehlman, 38, unmarried and never with female companionship, is gay, he is a hypocrite.
...
Four members of the Cleveland Log Cabin Republican group attended the dinner to hear Mehlman.
"He almost said it," said Parker Bosley, in reference to what he wished would have been Mehlman's full embrace of LGBT Republicans.
"I think it was because he said reach out to everyone," said Bosley. "But not including gays is not a reason not to join."
Lessee... if a double negative is a positive, then a triple negative is a negative. So "not including gays is not a reason not to join" is...
BLAMMO!
Sorry, my head just exploded. Allow me a moment to reassemble the pieces and I'll be with you shortly.
Bosley said conservative gays and lesbians who don't want to be "the lap dog of Democrats" can contribute to the Republican Party "just like black people."
Oh, yes indeedy. The Republicans welcome self-loathing minorities as well as sinners of all stripes, so long as you embrace the concept of letting the rich and powerful keep all of their money and bashing queers and stuff.
Fred Bachhuber said he expected not to hear a LGBT welcome from Mehlman.
"He just can't do it yet," said Bachhuber, "but as long as he's sleeping with men behind the scenes, that's all I care about."
Now it is clear to me. Thank you, Mr. Bachhuber. Having legal rights, protection under the law, and the right to be who you are in the open is as dangerous and sinful as the Mehlmans of the world want to make it. But as long as he is a secret sodomizer (or sodomizee?), that's good enough for you.
I guess that's why I'm so baffled by you bozos. I don't give a damn who he sleeps with. I don't give a damn who you sleep with. I do care about your right not to be fired for it, or refused the right to visit your partner in the hospital for it, or to be tied to a split-rail fence, tortured, beaten and pistol-whipped and left for dead in near freezing temperatures for it.
But that's just me.
posted by bluememe at 4/12/2005
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