Comments on: Tea Party focus doesn’t include LGBT issues

By: Frankie James

Frankie James — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:48:31 +0000

Wow… that didn’t take long.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100907/ap_on_re_us/us_tea_party_montana

By: Frankie James

Frankie James — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:29:56 +0000

Give them time… if they are successful then watch out.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:13:49 +0000

Well HOLA Gabriel and while you’re against hate crimes legislation I’m against the fact that we in America still allow cubans to float on rafts here and allow them to stay giving them public assisitance et, at while Mexicans, and every other group from The Caribbean are treated like dirt and sent back unlike Cubans. Why should they get preferences? Can you explain that Mamacita?

By: Alyson

Alyson — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:44:32 +0000

Gabino:

LGBT people all over the country are being deprived of their civil rights in employment, housing, insurance, immigration, federal marriage benefits, and exposed to violent, sometimes fatal assaults. LGBT people are *targeted* for discrimination and violence–this is why we need to fight back. We are in an intense struggle right now with calculated hatred coming from all directions. The Tea Party is back-pedaling on public attacks right now because hatred is not pretty. You can count on it, Gabino, if we ignore the bigots and watch them get elected, your rights… since you are obviously “out”… could be taken away. Being LGBT is not a profession–for many it is a daily struggle for equal rights.

By: Gabino Cuevas

Gabino Cuevas — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:53:19 +0000

Bill – maybe the problem is with people like you that refer to “our community”. My community is AMERICANS. I don’t view my entire being as a gay. I am a gay man, but that is only a small part of my whole being. I am also conservative by nature and upbringing. I am Catholic, I am Cuban born, and I am ALL FLORIDA GATOR! LOL. I am against hate crimes legislation because it criminalizes THOUGHT. Go ahead and punish the crime – what does it matter what I scream out while committing the crime? Murder is murder. Maybe the problem is with liberal judges releasing hardened criminals back out into the streets. Maybe people hate because of the general moral breakdown in this country. Thee are many things that affect us all as AMERICANS. Stop turning being gay into a profession.

By: Kurtis

Kurtis — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:26:59 +0000

There are many issues that the Tea Party folks avoid becoming mired in, not just LGBT to say there are only two people supporting GOProud shows a lack of knowledge.

By: David Hart

David Hart — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:07:11 +0000

This really is infuriating nonsense. The Tea Party Caucus is led by Bachmann who is an anti-gay extremist. At least two of the TP senate candidates (Angle and Paul) are Reconstructionist Christians. As for Joe Miller, his issues statement reads like religious right code: “I am unequivocally pro-life and life must be protected from the moment of conception to the time of natural death. The family is the foundation of a free society.” Moreover, he is endorsed by Huckabee.

While I agree that there are issues other than those affecting our community, I find it very troubling that GOProud is willing to advance the careers of people who hate us.

By: Stan J

Stan J — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:03:10 +0000

Were nice guys for the most part.

Until we get power. And then we’ll further consolidate power by falling in line with the talibangelical republican base.

Yes, there are Libertarians, which is what the tea party mainstream position is about. Which btw includes abolishing social security, medicare, medicaid etc etc.

This is the side of the repubs motivated by greed, and lack of any belief in our collective responsibility for each other, particularly in our old age.

And the other side – well thats the people whose southern bible culture gave us slavery, the KKK and segregation. Who are motivated by religious hatred. The two pieces of the republican party.

And remember the Family Research Council – who called for the jailing of gays. One of their nutcase leaders, is an obvious gay person filled with self hatred. The other is a Baptist minister, though he doesn’t bragg about it – the type of people I mentioned re slavery, the KKK, and segregation.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:32:54 +0000

I wish the Blade would stop giving GOPRound any press at all. They are an organization of two — yes, two people — who have found a way to self-aggrandize and to support issues irrelevant to our community.