{"id":48174,"date":"2012-08-29T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/?p=48174"},"modified":"2012-08-29T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T19:17:10","slug":"goproud-may-have-found-its-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/2012\/08\/29\/48174","title":{"rendered":"GOProud may have found its purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a big fan of GOProud, an organization of one or two gay Republicans and their friends. <\/p>\n

They only exist because they broke off from Log Cabin over LCR’s goal of trying to make the party more inclusive for gay people. They thought the goals should be limited to getting any Republican elected, no matter how anti-gay, and ranting about “the Gay Left”. (And by “Gay Left” they mean pretty much anyone who isn’t a GOProud member.)<\/p>\n

In other words, they exist solely as an organization that opposes those gay people – in all parties – who are working for my rights.<\/p>\n

But it seems that they did throw a decent party<\/a> last night and had something like 500 GOP delegates show up. And while that isn’t astonishing and marvelous, I guess it’s something.<\/p>\n

And this might do some incremental good. After all, for many people, the first time they ever consider gay people as real and deserving of consideration is in a social setting. Hey, it’s possible.<\/p>\n

So maybe that’s what GOProud should do: throw parties. <\/p>\n

Maybe they could just shut-up and serve cocktails. Because all buddying up with those who deride us (like Ann Coulter) and the sniping at gay activists fighting for my rights is really getting old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not a big fan of GOProud, an organization of one or two gay Republicans and their friends. They only exist because they broke off from Log Cabin over LCR’s goal of trying to make the party more inclusive for gay people. They thought the goals should be limited to getting any Republican elected, no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1588],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48176,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48174\/revisions\/48176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/http\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/round-lake.dustinice.workers.dev:443\/https\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}