Log Cabin Republicans 'not a worthwhile exchange'
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 2/17/2009 7:00:00 AM
Illinois-based Americans for Truth About Homosexuality is calling on socially conservative Republicans to call or write new party chairman Michael Steele and ask him not to promote the agenda of the Log Cabin Republicans, a homosexual activist group.
Log Cabin praised Steele's election last month, saying the former Maryland lieutenant governor "believes in a big tent GOP" and "is an inclusive leader who will bring a new energy and a new vision to the GOP at a critical time."
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Americans for Truth president Peter LaBarbera says Steele would be unwise to embrace the Log Cabin agenda.
"Every time a new guy like Steele comes in, the Log Cabin Republicans try to say, 'Hey, he's one of our guys. He's for inclusion,'" claims LaBarbera.
But Steele, says LaBarbera, would give up substantially more than he would gain should he reach out to the homosexual activists. "[T]he reality is there's only 20,000 members all across the country of this tiny homosexual activist group called the Log Cabin Republicans," he shares. "It's not a worthwhile exchange to get 20,000 votes to lose millions and millions of faithful, pro-family religious conservatives who are the grassroots of the Republican Party."
LaBarbera says his group is merely asking Steele to defend the Republican Party's platform on the issues of life and marriage. He notes the Log Cabin Republicans have called for the repeal of Proposition 8, the voter-approved amendment banning same-sex "marriage" in California.
Some conservatives have been critical of Steele's past involvement with the Republican Leadership Council, a pro-abortion, centrist group he founded with Christie Todd Whitman.
