It's Monday, and you know that means: Get ready for this week's installment of "Mehlman Mondays!"
Ooh, this is getting good. The religious right is started to get peeved about all the open homosexualists working in the senior ranks of the Republican party. And they're coming right out and saying that the GOP shouldn't hire gay staff!
The broadside below, issued today in the American Family Association's news organ "Agape Press," doesn't mention Ken Mehlman by name, but my political spider sense tells that's exactly who they're talking about. Note this line: "Voters who put Republicans in office should demand that politicians not employ key personnel who don't hold the conservative views that the party promotes." That clearly covers President Bush as such a politician, and the RNC as "key personnel." Now, the religious right wouldn't dare question Mehlman publicly, because you don't take on powerful people in this town unless you know you're gonna win. The religious right can't risk taking on Mehlman and losing, unless they know they're going to win and unseat him. Thus, I think, the religious right is speaking in code. Using George Allen, someone they don't mind taking on, to speak to a larger issue and a larger audience, like the President and Mr. Cheney.
As much as I despise the religious right, they're right about one thing. You can't claim to be a conservative family values-loving Republican and at the same time be a big friend of Dorothy. I mean, you can, but no one should trust you, on either side of the debate.
From the AgapePress:
...A pro-family activist from Virginia says voters who put Republicans in office should demand that politicians not employ key personnel who don't hold the conservative views that the party promotes. That activist says the Capitol Hill office of Virginia Senator George Allen is a good example. Senator Allen is head of the Republican Senatorial Committee and was a key figure in the GOP's big victories in November.That logic would apply to the House, the Bush campaign, the White House, and most certainly the RNC. Which means the religious right just gave us the added justification we need for demanding that Ken Mehlman and the White House come clean - is he gay, straight, bi or asexual? What's the deal? Even your electoral base says they want to know. So what gives?
But Joe Glover, president of the Virginia-based Family Policy Network, says something is very wrong. Glover says homosexual publications have outed at least six members of the senator's office as homosexuals. He says one homosexual activist even went so far as to say Allen had the "gayest office on Capitol Hill." Pro-family conservatives, he says, need to make sure Senator Allen hears their voices.
"If someone is going to run the day-to-day operations for the Republican apparatus to elect U.S. senators across the country, then dog-gone-it, it better not be somebody who practices a lifestyle that is diametrically opposed to the evangelical Christian base that delivered George W. Bush and the Republicans in the Senate the victory they saw in November," he says. Glover says Allen's executive director recently resigned because he was outed as a homosexual.
