Log Cabin leaders have long insisted that their mission is to slowly change the party from the inside, but some researchers have postulated that internalized homophobia may a factor in gay conservatives’ loyalty; a 2023 report from the Williams Institute found that 38% of gay Republicans considered their sexual orientation to be a “personal shortcoming,” and 41% said they would prefer to be straight if they could.
These people are fundamentally broken. Not because they are gay or queer. Because they don’t accept themselves.
(cw: transphobia, chuddery)
My mom was like this and was even a LCR local party functionary at one point. (She’s MtF trans)
Basically she says that gender dysphoria is a mental disorder (which she has). Also mega-conservative in pretty much every way.
they don’t accept themselves.
This is a requirement for being a republican if you’re bank account doesn’t have seven zeros.
It present in many forms but lack of acceptance of themselves, their situation and the reality around themselves is a prerequisite for being a republican.
They aren’t restricting anyone’s political speech (which, as a private business, they are allowed to do anyway), they are not allowing the promotion of a Treasonous Terrorist Hate Group that has specifically targeted their preferred patrons.
They don’t have to allow MAGA Nazis to walk among their patrons wearing their bigotry, any more than a synagogue must allow a Neo-Nazi to walk among their congregation wearing a swastika.
Frankly, the bar should be apologizing to their patrons for not tossing the guy out the instant he walked in. I’ve managed and owned restaurants and other retail establishments, and I’ve never had a problem ejecting idiots who walk in wearing clothes that will piss off my customers. You can wear your Fuck You shirt anywhere in public you want, but you aren’t wearing it in my family restaurant where you will offend my family patrons.
They are restricting political speech and it’s good.
The way liberals have to twist themselves into knots to fight fascism is absurd.
I understand, but I prefer to frame it as their as their political display of ignorance and hate shocks the senses of reasonable, decent, moral people.
Good. It may be your community, too, but that doesn’t permit you to shit it up by parading your support for a fascist dictator that’s actively malignant and hostile to those in that community… you included.
Do these people really think that the fascists will, out of gratitude for their support, spare them while persecuting the rest of their community? Or do they think they can change the fascists’ minds? Have they ever checked how that has gone, historically?
https://www.texastribune.org/2022/07/24/texas-log-cabin-republicans/
They think they can change the fascists’ minds. And they share the same sentiments regarding trans people and are ecstatic to throw them to the wolves (i.e. deny them medical care, sentence trans women to rape in men’s prisons, ban them from athletics, bathrooms, gyms, and public life in general, and ultimately push them all to suicide). They are fundamentally broken people. The only thing I hate more than a Republican is an LGBTQ Republican.
They have enough money that they think it will shield them from Republican policies. For the most part, they are actually correct. As stupid and self hating as they are, they are “one of the good ones” to their “friends”, and selling out everyone like them isn’t really a problem for them.
People like to paint Log Cabin Republicans as dumb, but the truth is that they’re actually more evil and selfish.
“the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
Yep. These Log Cabiners must be real galaxy brains…
That’s literally the definition of cognitive dissonance. And it’s a hallmark of literal brainwashing. Like, for real this is a common tactic in cults. I outta know, for what it’s worth, cause I grew up Mormon. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There is a version of it that isn’t cognitive dissonance but, willful hypocrisy is kinda its own thing. Basically to use one I hold genocide is bad, I would gleefully commit genocide against the Seventh Day Adventists. These are both positions I hold and recognize make me a hypocrite, but frankly speaking I ain’t a fan of organized religions, holier than though types, or folks who piss off my family for a hundred and fifty fucken years. But yeah it can vary in severity of the hypocrisy and severity.
As an aside I mean the destruction of their culture and religion via the destruction of community, mostly at least id probably shoot at least one or two for being annoying but that’s just me being openl murderous. I don’t believe in hiding how much of an asshole I am, if ya know it’s a bear trap don’t complain when it bites you.
Republicanism is incompatible with being a healthy LGBTQ person. Incompatible.
Conservatism is the flawed ideology that inequality is preferable to progress.
