• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Towleroad Gay News

Gay Blog Towleroad: More than gay news | gay men

  • Travel
  • Sports
  • Law/Justice
  • Celebrities
  • Film/TV/Stream
  • Republicans
  • Madonna
  • Books
  • Men
  • Trans Rights
  • Tech/Science
  • Royals
  • Monkeypox

Log Cabin Republicans Won’t Endorse Trump, But Want to Talk if He Wins

Andy Towle October 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

Gregory-T.-Angelo-Log-Cabin-Republicans
Gregory t. Angelo, president, log cabin republicans

The gay GOP group Log Cabin Republicans is declining to endorse Donald Trump, or anyone, and says it will be working to preserve a Republican Congress instead:

“Trust, but verify.”

So cautioned former President Ronald Reagan who inspired our founding in 1977—and it is a solemn understanding of that very instruction from our 40th president that compels Log Cabin Republicans to withhold endorsement from our Party’s current nominee.

Mr. Trump is perhaps the most pro-LGBT presidential nominee in the history of the Republican Party. His unprecedented overtures to the “LGBTQ community”—a first for any major-party candidate in our nation’s history—are worthy of praise, and should serve as a clarion call to the GOP that the days of needing to toe an anti-LGBT line are now a thing of the past.

But Log Cabin Republicans have long emphasized that we are not a single-issue organization, nor are our members single-issue voters. Even if we were, rhetoric alone regarding LGBT issues does not equate to doctrine. As Mr. Trump spoke positively about the LGBT community in the United States, he concurrently surrounded himself with senior advisors with a record of opposing LGBT equality, and committed himself to supporting legislation such as the so-called “First Amendment Defense Act” that Log Cabin Republicans opposes.

Should Mr. Trump become our nation’s next President, Log Cabin Republicans welcomes the opportunity to work with his administration to ensure the advances in LGBT freedom we have fought for and secured will continue.

Until and unless that happens, our trust would be misplaced.

Log Cabin Republicans will spend the remainder of the 2016 election cycle committed to preserving and growing GOP majorities in the United States Senate and House of Representatives.

Here’s FiveThirtyEight’s prognostication for the Senate.

RELATED: Gay Couple for Trump Not Worried About Death Threats Because They’ve Got a Gun: WATCH

Other gay Republicans disagree.

ABC News talks with a couple of misguided fellows, who have convinced themselves somehow that Trump supports them, like California delegate Charles Moran:

“Donald Trump is the best candidate that the LGBT community has ever seen come out of the Republican Party,” Moran said. “We see a consistent line from Donald Trump that being pro LGBT and pro inclusion is a good business decision and I believe he’s going to bring that with him in the White House.” …

“We see a consistent line from Donald Trump that being pro-LGBT and pro-inclusion is a good business decision and I believe he’s going to bring that with him in the White House,” Moran said.

Despite the fact that Trump’s Christian conservative running mate Mike Pence enacted anti-LGBTQ laws as governor of Indiana, such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Moran said he’s comfortable with Pence because he’s “not running for president.”

And Juan Hernandez, a gay Hispanic Trump supporter:

Juan Hernandez is a gay Hispanic Trump supporter who also witnessed Thiel and Trump’s history-making speeches at the RNC this summer. But said he has encountered violence for being pro-Trump, adding that an anti-Trump protester attacked him at a Trump rally in San Jose.

“I saw a fist come in and hit my nose and my nose just instantly started pouring blood,” Hernandez said….

Hernandez says he’s also criticized for being Mexican and still supporting Trump.

“They need to listen to the whole thing that he believes,” he said. “He’s not against the Mexican culture or the Mexican community — he’s against illegal immigration.”

And of course, you know about these guys:

Topics: Business, History, Politics, towleroad More Posts About: Donald Trump, Log Cabin Republicans, Nation, Republican Party

Related Posts
  • A polarized U.S. celebrates Independence Day
  • What charges might Trump face for trying to overturn 2020 election?
  • Trump thought marching to Capitol with rioting supporters would be ‘a dramatic made-for-TV moment’: report
  • Elliot Page: ‘Never thought I would love a passport photo’

    Elliot Page: ‘Never thought I would love a passport photo’

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Elliot Page has shared his new passport photograph. The ‘Umbrella Academy’ actor – who announced he was transgender in 2020 – took to Instagram to share his updated passport picture and …Read More »
  • Adele gifts VIP concert access to fan in exchange for Pride flag

    Adele gifts VIP concert access to fan in exchange for Pride flag

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Adele gave a fan VIP access to her concert, in exchange for borrowing their Pride flag. The 34-year-old star draped herself in a rainbow flag at her concert at British Summer …Read More »
  • Lourdes Leon Top Social Media Thirst Trap Moments: Photos

    Lourdes Leon Top Social Media Thirst Trap Moments: Photos

    Published by OK Magazine mega She got it from her mama! Lourdes Leon never fails to wow her followers with the sultriest of snaps on social media. The ultra famous daughter of Madonna knows how to …Read More »
  • Why Norway is making influencers warn when ‘beautifying’ their bodies

    Why Norway is making influencers warn when ‘beautifying’ their bodies

    Published by DPA Media experts have warned that unhealthy body images on social media can be particularly dangerous for younger users, who are discovering their own bodies and are often dissatisfied with their looks. Benjamin Nolte/dpa …Read More »
Previous Post: « Hillary Clinton Feasts on Donald Trump in the Third SNL Presidential Debate: WATCH
Next Post: Gus Kenworthy Reflects on a Year of Being Out of the Closet »

Primary Sidebar

News

  • Margot Robbie & Ryan Gosling Skate Through A Day Of Filming ‘Barbie’ In Venice Beach: Photos

    Margot Robbie & Ryan Gosling Skate Through A Day Of Filming ‘Barbie’ In Venice Beach: Photos

  • Six killed in shooting during US July 4 parade

    Six killed in shooting during US July 4 parade

  • US drought exposes murky mob past of Las Vegas

    US drought exposes murky mob past of Las Vegas

RSS Partner Links

  • Today’s Morning Man: Patrick Wilson!
  • Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black take in some Wimbledon matches – from the Royal Box!
  • OMG, WATCH: Drake performs with The Backstreet Boys on stage in Toronto
  • OMG, WATCH: Kesha will encounter ghosts in upcoming Discovery+ series ‘Conjuring Kesha’
  • Happy ...
  • Happy Fourth of July!
  • Weekend Tennis Roundup

Most Recent

  • Ohio city Akron imposes curfew after protests over police killing of Black man

    Ohio city Akron imposes curfew after protests over police killing of Black man

  • Elliot Page: ‘Never thought I would love a passport photo’

    Elliot Page: ‘Never thought I would love a passport photo’

  • Adele gifts VIP concert access to fan in exchange for Pride flag

    Adele gifts VIP concert access to fan in exchange for Pride flag

  • Lourdes Leon Top Social Media Thirst Trap Moments: Photos

    Lourdes Leon Top Social Media Thirst Trap Moments: Photos

  • Why Norway is making influencers warn when ‘beautifying’ their bodies

    Why Norway is making influencers warn when ‘beautifying’ their bodies

  • Can I get monkeypox from a contaminated surface? Possibly, says study

    Can I get monkeypox from a contaminated surface? Possibly, says study

  • Pope defrocks retired German priest after drawn out proceedings

    Pope defrocks retired German priest after drawn out proceedings

  • Lebanese civil society groups condemn anti-LGBT crackdown

    Lebanese civil society groups condemn anti-LGBT crackdown

Most Commented

Social

Twitter @tlrd | Facebook | Instagram @tlrd
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy
[towleroadmr] [towleroadtn]

Footer

Copyright © 2022 · Log in