Bush painting the GOP Lavender. (Insider Report).On May 31st, 200 members of the Log Cabin Republicans The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) is a federated gay and lesbian political organization in the United States with state chapters and a national office in Washington, D.C. The group consists of gays and lesbians who are supporters of the Republican Party. , a homosexual pressure group, met with "senior administration officials in the Old Executive Office Building," reported the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. The visit, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Times, ''symbolized their progress under President Bush.'' "In '96, Bob Dole returned a check [from the Log Cabin log cabin or log house, style of home typical of the American pioneer on the Western frontier of the United States in the great westward expansion after 1765. It was constructed with few tools, usually an axe or an adz and an auger. group]," recalled Louisiana Log Cabin activist Randy Boudreaux. "Now we're going to the White House." Although George W. Bush is routinely described as a product of the "Christian Right The term "Christian Right" is used by scholars and journalists, to refer to a spectrum of right-wing Christian political and social movements and organizations characterized by their strong support of conservative social and political values. ," his approach to appeasing the Lavender Lobby differs little from that of his left-wing predecessor, Bill Clinton. "They [the Bush administration] have not taken steps forward, but they have not taken steps backward;' comments David Smith of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC HRC Human Rights Campaign HRC Human Rights Council (UN) HRC Human Rights Commission HRC Hard Rock Cafe HRC Hillary Rodham Clinton (democratic senator/presidential candidate; former first lady) ), another homosexual pressure group. One illustration of Smith's point came in a March meeting between HRC activists and Republican national chairman Marc Racicot, who is expected to chair President Bush's re-election campaign. "As president, Mr. Bush has appointed several openly gay people, including Michael Guest, the ambassador to Romania, to high-level jobs, and he has also declined to overturn executive orders issued by President Bill Clinton that bar discrimination against gays in federal employment and security clearances," the Times noted approvingly. "Mr. Bush's effort to triple federal spending on the global AIDS epidemic has brought him praise from many gays." |
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