I'd asked you folks a few days ago to send letters to the North Carolina Republican party in protest over their throwing gay Republicans out of the state convention. And did you send letters. I've posted a sampling of what you sent (names removed) below:
Opposing discrimination is not disloyal but the American way
I am so offended by your refusal to allow the Log Cabin Republicans at the convention and by Pres. Bush's stand on the marriage amendment that I am resigning from the Republican Party. You people are the ones how are "not normal". I am a gay man in Greensboro, long time Republican, have 4 children who know I am gay and are very supportive of me. I expect no less from my political party.
Your name will always be associated with the backwards and hateful reputation of the south that includes slavery, segregation, and homophobia.
I recently read with disbelief and disgust statements by an official of the North Carolina Republican Party that gay and lesbian Republicans were not welcome at the party convention or in the State GOP. I urge you to repudiate these statements. They reflect a bigotry and intolerance which I would hope is never acceptable in the Republican Party. As a Republican, I am embarrassed for my party. As one of an estimated one million gay Republican whose vote the party needs this year, the statements appear suicidal.
How sad to see a group of relatively intelligent individuals do such a stupid and hateful thing as to ban gays and lesbians from your organization, It appears to those of us who do have a brain and can think clearly that your actions as fundamental Christians are little different from the fundamentalist Islamic extremists who are devastating the world with their belief that Â?if you donÂ?t think the way we doÂ? you be damned forever.
We serve our country in the military, we own homes and pay taxes which support the school children and we work harder to make a contribution to the work place. God does not choose which people to love and which ones not to love, God loves all because he created us all. Equality is what you should be supporting, not bigotry. You should be helping to unite Americans, not divide them.
I'm speechless. You're a moron, and a hateful one at that. We planned our annual conference in Ashville in October. It is now cancelled.
We find it difficult to fathom the Republican Party in North Carolina is exclusive rather than inclusive and is not actively soliciting the votes from all to re-elect the incumbent Republican office holders. Rest assure, you will not be getting my vote this fall!
Being a fellow Southern, born in VA, you should all be ashamed of yourselves for further damaging the South's reputation (as full of uneducatbigotsots). The issues of equal rights of gays is a veimportantant civil rights issue. Have you learned nothing from the past? Just last week on the anniversary of integration, we watched archived clips in horror as black students were bashed for simply trying to get an equal,fair education. Now it's gays being denied equal opportunities and liberties that our constitution promises!
We are all human beings, we are all living on this planet so that we may better serve one another and lift one another to the light of God. Gay human beings have a place on this Earth just as you do. How dare you even INSINUATE anything to the contrary.
How "compassionately conservative" of you all.
If you are among that sad group of North Carolinians who still insist on drawing lines between people and perpetuating that "Old South" stereotype of the judgmental, condemnatory, ignorant blowhard, I sincerely hope you take a long, hard look at the people you think you represent. Are they really "normal" people, or are they a group of perceptive individuals who have adapted to living unique lives among those few who still judge and condemn anything that isn't exactly like them, down to the molecule?
