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Thursday, September 04

McCain Chief Strategist Encourages Log Cabin

The Advocate is reporting that Steve Schmidt, the strategist who currently has “full operational control” of the McCain campaign, dropped in at a Log Cabin Republicans luncheon today, “I just wanted to take a second to come by and pay my respect and the campaign’s respect to your organization...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 09-04-2008
Wednesday, September 03

McCain Campaign Accepts Log Cabin’s Endorsement

Yesterday at Log Cabin Republicans’ Big Tent Event, the McCain campaign accepted the gay group’s endorsement. Mike DuHaime, the National Political Director, spoke on behalf of the candidate and the campaign. He told the crowd of 200 people, “On behalf of Senator McCain and the campaign, thank...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 09-03-2008
Tuesday, September 02

Republican Delegates Support Civil Unions

The New York Times has polled the delegates to the Republican and the Democrat national conventions and compared their positions with those of the voting members of their party. Invariably, on each issue (with one exception) the demographics broke down as follows (from most conservative to least): Republican...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 09-02-2008
Tuesday, September 02

Palin’s Misunderstanding of History

Often evangelical conservatives suffer under the misperception that the nation’s Founding Fathers shared their belief that the country was intended to be a Christian Nation governed according to a conservative understanding of Scripture. Although even the most casual reading of our founding documents...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 09-02-2008
Tuesday, September 02

Log Cabin Endores John McCain

Log Cabin Republicans has endorsed Sen. John McCain for President. Log Cabin appears to recognize that McCain’s agenda is not much in alignment with the goals of the gay community or the principles of equality: “We have honest disagreements with Sen. McCain on a number of gay rights issues...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 09-02-2008
Monday, September 01

Palin’s Anti-Gay “Pro-Gay” Veto

That glimmer of hope that Sarah Palin might be persuadable concerning LGBT rights appears solidly extinguished. Michael Signorile’s at the RNC, and has this to report: I went to the Alaska delegation and spoke with a woman who is in Palin’s cabinet. She assured me that Palin is not in favor...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 09-01-2008
Friday, August 29

Palin, an Interesting Choice

Sarah Palin is a fascinating vice-presidential selection for John McCain. The Governor of Alaska, a state that is both unneeded in the electoral college and one certain to vote Republican in any case, Palin has neither the experience nor the political connections to influence other states. But she...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 08-29-2008
Wednesday, August 27

Michelle Obama Speaks At LGBT Caucus in Denver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOc9cROLbK8

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 08-27-2008
Saturday, August 23

Biden Seems Good on Gay Issues

In the swirl of speculation leading up to the announcement of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s running mate, several names were tossed about. They ranged from the those we cannot call a friend (Chet Edwards of Texas was one of a handfull of Democrats to support the federal anti-gay...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 08-23-2008
Wednesday, August 20

Jindal to Relegalize Anti-Gay Discrimination

If you are a Louisiana State department head that wished to rid your taxpayer funded office of gay people, you only have to wait until after Friday. That’s when an anti-discrimination order put in place by former Governor Kathleen Blanco expires. And current Governor Piyush “Bobby”...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Box Turtle Bulletin on 08-20-2008

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