GOProud finally backs gay marriage
After declining to take a position on the issue for years, GOProud, the group for gay conservatives, told BuzzFeed Friday it is coming out in support of same-sex marriage equality.
“We support same-sex marriage, civil marriage,” GOProud executive director Jimmy LaSalvia said.
The move follows a decision by the GOProud board earlier this month to expand the group’s mission to include state-level work. It also comes after, LaSalvia noted, the re-election of a president who supports same-sex couples’ marriage rights, while some in the Republican Party are urging their party to reassess their position on the issue.
Since its founding in 2009, GOProud has always opposed the federal Defense of Marriage Act, calling the law a “federal power grab,” but it avoided the underlying issue of marriage rights.
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Breitbart, god rest his soul, hardest hit.
astonerii on January 18, 2013 at 5:03 PM
They should have followed the French in this. For once they are 100% correct on an issue.
Buy Danish on January 18, 2013 at 5:05 PM
Gays with morals. I like that. They think about other people on the whole rather than their libido and egos.
Too bad the vast majority of of “conservatives” in this nation are not as well versed on the real reasons for things to have been the way they have been for millenia.
astonerii on January 18, 2013 at 5:12 PM
The folks at Buzzfeed also had something else to say.
JammieWearingFool on January 18, 2013 at 5:12 PM
Liberal identity politics FTW. Why did we concede to playing this stupid game in the first place?
CapnObvious on January 18, 2013 at 5:13 PM
Tolerance of evil is not saintly.
astonerii on January 18, 2013 at 5:15 PM
Um, because ever so popular Breitbart was calling us names because we did not want to have them be a major sponsor at CPAC if I recall. Something that gave the more regressive in our party the cover to vote for repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which WILL be the end of marriage as we know it.
astonerii on January 18, 2013 at 5:17 PM
so much twitdrama this morning on the subject, too – Fjelstad was just making a friendly solicitation.
~~ gosh ~~
Jeddite on January 18, 2013 at 5:22 PM
i just always assumed that they did!
Sachiko on January 18, 2013 at 5:34 PM
Seems kinda gay.
MechanicalBill on January 18, 2013 at 5:35 PM
The GOP will betray you
True_King on January 18, 2013 at 5:36 PM
i just always assumed that they did!
Sachiko on January 18, 2013 at 5:34 PM
I know! I do appreciate them though for focusing on other issues, where other gay groups act like they are incredibly oppressed unless they get their way.
thebrokenrattle on January 18, 2013 at 6:14 PM
Why are they only backing gay marriage? Why do they hate everyone else that wants to marry as they desire? Hypocrites?
blink on January 18, 2013 at 7:42 PM
That’s because they probably always did. They just weren’t saying so until now.
Kensington on January 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM
They don’t want to publicly state that everything from “Mo-hammed style” marriages to bestiality to marrying video game characters is next. It’s way easier to let the mentally ill deviants crawl out from their basements and do their own advocating.
MelonCollie on January 18, 2013 at 9:51 PM