In a previous article, I “snatched the wig” (look it up)
off the Log Cabin Republicans, exposing that they were not moving away from transgender
advocacy out of some sense of righteousness or goodwill for the public – or the
country.
They have reworked themselves, like a drag queen putting on
a MAGA hat, to seem less crazy, more conservative, more in line with cultural
currents that are rejecting the transgenderism cult just to protect their
homosexual advocacy (Read, moral disintegration).
Their move against the T is not a principled reform, but CYA
(cover your a--) of the highest order.
A drag queen wearing a MAGA hat is still a drag queen.
And drag queens, or any other form of family-destroying
anarchy, is not conservative. In fact, there is nothing conservative about a
movement claiming to promote homosexuality as a static identity deserving of
the same rights and privileges as other identity groups.
The Log Cabin “Republicans” are democrats in “Conservative” drag, and we should stop pretending otherwise.
Despite all the evidence, the Log Cabin “Republicans”
protest that they are a conservative movement, but that they want to provide a
place for homosexual Republicans (?) to speak out for their brand of identity
politics while fighting for other conservative priorities.
Putting aside their ongoing promotion of anti-natural law
and natural-rights sexual deviancy, let’s confront and dismantle the lie that
the Log Cabin “Republicans” are a conservative group in every other way.
To rebuff any rebuttals, let’s establish that they do claim
to be conservative.
Hemminger writes in his
“No More T” Op-ed:
Fifty years ago next year, Log
Cabin Republicans was founded on a simple conviction: that gay Americans who
believe in limited government, individual liberty, and equality deserve equal
protection under the law and a voice inside the Republican Party. From the
start, Log Cabin Republicans grounded its advocacy in constitutional principles
— equal protection, limited government, and individual freedom.
Are the Log Cabin GOP really committed to limited
government, individual liberty, and equal protection under the law?
That phrase “under the law” covers a lot of devilish subtleties.
For the last ten years, the Democratic Party has attempted to pass the
so-called “Equality Act” in Congress, which would further corrupt the Civil
Rights Act corpus of legislation to include homosexual conduct and
cross-dressing as civil rights. Log Cabin pundits are all in on the “Equality
Act.”
Expansion of protected classes in Civil Rights jurisprudence
ensures the growth of government overreach. While we should all resist
invidious discrimination, the federal government’s crude “Civil Rights Acts”
enforcement, including forced quotas and affirmative action, has frustrated liberty
without combatting bigotry. Before his assassination, Charlie
Kirk argued for repealing the Civil Rights Act. Free enterprise, freedom to
choose, and capitalism (true limited government) provide the best protections
for consumers. Conservatives have long understood this. However, the Log Cabin
“Republicans” are all in favor of big government “non-discrimination”
interventions. They have no problem with violating freedom of association as
well as freedom of speech and freedom of commerce, i.e., pursuit (not
guarantee) of happiness.
Other rights which conservatives care about include the
right of children to be raised in natural families, as well as the committed
protection of public order for their future. The Log Cabin “Republicans” not
only support redefinition of marriage, but support homosexual couples taking
children away from their natural parents. How is it “limited government” when
homosexual activists (Republican as well as Democrat) use the state to punish
churches, charities, and small businesses for not celebrating their homosexual
activities as a matter of preference or conscience?
The Log Cabin “Republicans” support a nationwide ban on “conversion”
therapy for minors. In other words, they traffic in the lies of the Left, propagandizing
that reparative or restorative therapy harms individuals, including children.
Father Richard Sullins of the Ruth Institute has
expertly debunked these claims. Recently, the United States Supreme Court ruled
in Chiles v. Salazar that states cannot prevent therapists from providing
restorative therapy to children on the grounds of freedom of speech.
Not only do the Log Cabin statist oppose key principles
protected by the United States Constitution, but they can’t even get with the
times legally!
Here’s another problem: they claim to have ended their
transgender advocacy, yet look at their goals within the Decriminalization section
under the “Issues” tab of their website:
- International decriminalization of
homosexuality.
- International
decriminalization of gender identity/expression for trans people.
- Eradication
of the death penalty as a means of punishment for LGB people.
- Sanctions
against any country which, to any extent, criminalizes LGB people.
- Recognition,
in the granting of requests for asylum, of the plight of LGB people who
are persecuted and threatened with execution.
They still advocate for defending “Gender
identity/expression for trans people.” I thought they were abandoning T
advocacy?
On LCR’s arrogant, woke liberal leanings are further proof
of their big-government, read Democratic sensibilities. They want to pressure
other countries to normalize homosexuality. Who do they think they are? The
United Nations (another abortive liberal hegemon). What right do they have to
intervene in the domestic affairs of other countries, whose citizens want to
protect the integrity of the family and the well-being of their children? Senegal,
Ghana, Kazakhstan, etc. have the sovereign right to oppose homosexuality and
cross-dressing in their domains. They have witnessed the moral collapse in the
West following the permission and promotion of the LGBT agenda, and they want
none of it in their countries.
For the record, how do the Log Cabin globalists intend to
enforce LGBT decriminalization? By government force, naturally; hence, big
government. So much for Live and Let Live!
In addition to pushing anti-conservative protections for
LGBT behaviors in other countries, they expect the United States to take in
every person who claims persecution for LGBT status. Should
we welcome such “refugees” into our country? This is an open-borders
agenda, one which will exacerbate the size and scope of the American
bureaucracy while doing nothing to help American citizens.
If these platform planks aren’t enough to prove the true
liberal leanings of this fake Republican enterprise, consider their current leadership.
They just
appointed former Congresswoman and Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer
as their national secretary. DeRemer voted like a liberal Republican during her
one-term tenure, even though her election ensured, for the first time in
decades, that the Oregon Congressional delegation had two Republicans. She
supported the PRO Act, which would have made it more difficult to leave a
union, effectively negating state right-to-work laws.
As Secretary of Labor, Chavez-DeRemer faced criticism
because of her anti-worker freedom record. Towards the end of her tenure, she
faced civil
rights complaints (how about that?!). Then she was forced out over
misconduct with staff.
Another Log Cabin Leader, RINO former state senator
Richard Tisei, co-sponsored the Massachusetts
“Bathroom Bill” of 2016, which not only allowed confused men into women’s
spaces, but also authorized massive legal sanctions against anyone who resisted
these obscene, invasive policies. This is Big Government at its worst.
Log Cabin Republicans are a big-government liberal
organization, or “trans-Republicans” at best. It’s all the more reason they
should be disbanded entirely, or at least stop calling themselves
“Republicans.” Better yet, they should just “sashay away.”
