Gay-Friendly GOP?
Efforts by Republicans to recruit open homosexuals into leadership positions are nothing new. Listen to a news story on the subject from Focus on the Family and read the following article from CNS News; both from the early days of the Bush administration. Then TAKE ACTION by contacting the officials who are promoting this agenda and expressing your opinion to them.
Family Groups Warn Bush on GOP ‘Unity’ Project
Family Groups Warn Bush on GOP ‘Unity’ Project
By Lawrence Morahan
CNS Senior Staff Writer
February 02, 2001
(CNSNews.com) – Efforts by the Republican Party to woo homosexual voters cannot be done without opening the GOP’s doors to a liberal social agenda that will ultimately alienate its core base of conservatives, family groups warn.
“The GOP leaders involved in this effort to be gay-friendly are obviously out of touch with grassroots conservatives who make up the bulk of the votes within the Republican Party,” one activist said.
At issue is the Republican Unity Coalition, a newly-formed “gay straight alliance” within the Republican Party that boasts senior Republican politicians among its supporters.
A “Unity Breakfast” hosted by the group in Washington on the eve of the Inauguration featured more than a dozen elected Republican officials, including Rep. Tom Davis (VA), chairman of the National Campaign Committee, Sen. John Warner (VA), and headed by Gov. George Pataki (NY).
Family leaders are urging President George Bush to distance his administration from the group, which counts Mary Matalin, a top aide to Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, among its supporters.
“We’re seeing more and more statistics which prove that the homosexual lifestyle cuts by almost half the lives of people who practice it,” said Joe Glover, director of the Family Policy Network, a family advocacy group based in [Forest], Va. “Yet these Republicans who are seeking unity are actually giving tacit endorsement to this lifestyle.” ..
Peter LaBarbera, director of the Americans for Truth Project, criticized the GOP speakers for implying that homosexuality is as immutable as race and ethnicity.
“If we can forget color as a barrier, we can forget sexual orientation as well,” former Sen. Alan Simpson, the master of ceremonies at the breakfast, told Human Events.
Between The Lines, a homosexual newsmagazine from Michigan, quotes Davis as saying that Republican strategy had hitherto depended on low voter turnout models for its success.
“Getting more gays and lesbians to vote Republican should be an easier part of that voter matrix [for building majorities] than getting people of color,” Davis said.
LaBarbera also denounced Matalin, who he said has escalated her pro-homosexual advocacy in the Republican Party in recent months and denigrated people of faith who oppose homosexual activism as “gay bashers” and “the Leviticus crowd.”
Ignoring Homosexual Votes ‘A Mistake’
Homosexual voters tend to be well-educated, single, of above-average income, and 70 percent own a home – just the constituency a Republican economic agenda would be likely to attract, analysts said.
The new Coalition is an outgrowth of a meeting Bush held with homosexual Republican leaders last April, when he welcomed them to his campaign.
According to statistics released by the Coalition, 4 percent of voters in the November election identified themselves as homosexual. Of those, 25 percent cast their vote for Bush and Cheney. That translates to 1 million votes for Bush and Cheney nationwide, including an estimated 60,000 votes in Florida, which Bush carried by fewer than 1,000 votes.
“It’s Congressman Davis’ belief that there are people out there regardless of sexual orientation who share the core principles of the Republican Party, including limited government, individual responsibility and free enterprise, and it would be a mistake politically to ignore that potential constituency,” a spokesman for Davis said.
But LaBarbera said the 2000 election was a referendum of sorts on homosexual activism, and “gay rights” lost.
In Maine, voters turned back a pro-homosexual “non-discrimination” measure despite its being endorsed by the Catholic Diocese in Portland. In Vermont, citizen outrage at a new homosexual “”civil unions”” law granting marriage benefits to same-sex couples resulted in the Democrats losing control of the statehouse for the first time in a decade. Voters in Nebraska and Nevada rejected same-sex marriage by a 70 – 30 margin.
“This election proved once again how unpopular the homosexual agenda is among Americans,” LaBarbera said.
SOURCE: CNS News
See the “Republican Unity Coalition” website:
http://members.bellatlantic.net/~jrmil/ruc/index.html
URGENT ACTION ITEM:
Contact the leaders of the so-called “Republican Unity Coalition” and kindly tell them that their efforts are a betrayal to pro-family voters everywhere. Email and call the following people:
President George W. Bush
NOTE: President Bush has no formal connection with the Unity Coalition. However, his senior advisor, Mary Matalin, is a member of the group and a very vocal proponent of a “gay-friendly” GOP.
Voice Line: 202-456-1414
Comments: 202-456-1111
mailto:[email protected]
U.S. Senator John Warner (R-VA)
Washington, DC: (202) 224-2023
Abindgon, VA: (540) 628-8158
Richmond, VA: (804) 771-2579
Roanoke, VA: (540) 857-2676
Norfolk, VA: (757) 441-3079
mailto:[email protected]
Congressman Tom Davis (R-VA)
Washington, DC: (202) 225-1492
Annandale, VA: (703) 916-9610
Herndon, VA: (703) 437-1726
Prince William, VA: (703) 590-4599
mailto:[email protected]
NY Governor George Pataki (R-NY)
Governor George E. Pataki
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224
mailto:[email protected]