Repubs-Not homophobic.. just using marketing......

[Bledsoe]

Fmr Top GOP Aide: GOP "Members Are Not Homophobic...They're Using This Marketing To Play To Our Base"...

"In October 1993, after the ban on gays in the military was replaced with a "don't ask, don't tell" policy, three Oklahoma congressmen said they wouldn't hire an openly gay person onto their staffs. Then-Rep. Jim Inhofe (R) told the Tulsa World: "I would not appoint a gay person in that type of leadership position."

That declaration sent a ripple of fear across a certain set on Capitol Hill. A small, bipartisan group of staffers huddled and formed the Lesbian and Gay Congressional Staff Association, which now has a confidential e-mail list of more than 200. And a frustrated aide contacted the Tulsa World and gave an anonymous interview.

I'm gay, he told the newspaper, and I'm on Inhofe's staff.

The aide was Kirk Fordham, former chief of staff for disgraced former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.).........."

Read the enitre article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901931_pf.html
___________________________
Memo from J. Inhofe
TO Staff

Remember to get elected back in Oklahoma  it's being on the right side of the 3-Gs....

GUNS
GAYS, &
GOD!!!!!!

[iplaw]

Do you ever provide analysis or opinion, or do you just post other people's ideas?

[NellieBly]

Pot meet Kettle....Kettle, pot.

[Cubs]

Uh, I guarantee you pretty much all the of the Republican leaders would honestly say they are not homophobic. Homomarriagephobic - yes - rightfully so - yes - but not homophobic.

[snopes]

quote:Originally posted by NellieBly

Pot meet Kettle....Kettle, pot.

Ya right Nellie. IP NEVER backs up anything with his own analysis and observation. All he does is cut and paste like bledsoe. <sarcasm off>

[Bledsoe]

quote:Originally posted by Cubs

Uh, I guarantee you pretty much all the of the Republican leaders would honestly say they are not homophobic. Homomarriagephobic - yes - rightfully so - yes - but not homophobic.

Cubs--Republican leaders not homophobic?--surely you jest!

See the above Washington Post article:


"Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) ranks No. 3 in Senate leadership and has likened homosexuality to bestiality."