Just saying, Man Up Buddy. If you take shots yourself, don’t bitch about it when others do it, as if you are somehow immune from the participation.

Please do not forget that the reason Kolbe was outed by activists in 1996 was because he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act. How richly ironic it is that that very act will probably lead to his partner being deported, especially if Romney wins the election and his Justice Department defends DOMA in the Supreme Court.

Sorry, Kolbe gets no sympathy for me. The bastard doesn’t seem to even learn anything from his own experience.

If it truly were about getting concessions, then wouldn’t you expect upon not receiving *any* that LCR would withhold its endorsement? The only evidence of concessions here is on behalf of the LCR to Romney.

And you can safely bet your last dollar that if Tobias were endorsing a candidate with largely anti-LGBT views, I would be screaming from the rooftops — what I’ve written about Cooper would be positively flattering by comparison.

I also do agree that it can be advantageous to have Cooper on the RNC’s Finance Committee. But his presence there is incompatable with his position at LRC as as advocate for LGBT people — even LGBT Republicans.

Just as Solmonese’s shilling for Dems was incompatable with his advocacy for LGBT people while heading HRC. And I believe I was very clear about that. These are precisely the kind of people whose actions deserve special scrutiny along with an extra heaping dose of skepticism.

Perhaps in another space you might find it to be a strategic advantage to our community that Cooper is on the RNC’s Finance Committee, just as it has been to our great advantage for Andrew Tobias to be the DNC Treasurer since 99. I’m sure that by now you know that access isn’t given be standing outside and screaming.

I hate the culture war too, but this isn’t a culture war “god hates fags” moment. This is rank politics.

One simply cannot ignore Cooper’s position on the RNC’s Finance Committee and pretend that he is just there only as a gay advocate. Well, I guess one can, but that takes a lot of wishful thinking to do so.

If there’s one thing that I cannot stand, it’s someone who heads an organizaiton that purports to represent LGBT people while using the resources of that organization to give a pass for those who either fight against, or refuse to support the very people that the organization pretends to represent.

I hate it when they do that for Republicans, and I hate it when they do it for Democrats.

But I guess not everyone shares my refusal to give people passes when they don’t deserve them.

Asked if there was any portion of the current version of the legislation to which Romney objected, Cooper said Romney didn’t express concern about any particular language and did not object to protecting people from discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

I hope someone, maybe Bryan Fischer will oblige me, asks Romney to ‘clarify’ his non-opposition to ENDA with gender identity included. I suspect the answer would be both depressing and hilarious, like a dead clown.

Sure… of course… that had to be what Cooper was there for. It isn’t at all possible that he was there for what he said he was there for, is it? It couldn’t be an actual honest attempt to get concessions from the governor that were the result of a year-long effort, could it?

sigh

I hate the culture war