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发帖数: 19713 | 1 Log Cabin Head: NOM Is Cancer to Conservatives
By Neal Broverman
R. CLARKE COOPER NOM LOGO X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM
R. Clarke Cooper of the Log Cabin Republicans
R. Clarke Cooper, the executive director of the LGBT Republican group Log
Cabin Republicans, writes in The Washington Times that the National
Organization for Marriage is a "cancer" eating away at his party.
Cooper first refers to NOM's disastrous boycott of Starbucks. The antigay
group targeted the coffee chain over its support for marriage equality in
Washington State — the boycott led to waves of support for Starbucks with
appreciative letters, tweets, and Facebook messages. Cooper then says NOM's
recently discovered tactics of dividing racial minorities and LGBT people
are insidious and hurtful to conservatives.
"Putting aside NOM’s callous disregard for LGBT families, my party, the
Republican Party, cannot afford to be associated with an organization that
arrogantly seeks to manipulate African-American and Latino voters,
particularly when the Republican Party is working hard to promote our
message of economic opportunity and individual liberty among these
communities," Cooper writes. "Crude identity politics has no place in today
’s conservative movement."
Cooper calls on all three major Republican candidates for president — Mitt
Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich — to repudiate their support for
NOM's "marriage pledge."
"The debate surrounding the freedom to marry is ongoing, with good and loyal
conservatives on both sides," writes Cooper. "However, NOM is a cancer that
needs to be removed for the good of the conservative movement. Inclusion
wins, and division loses." |
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