Some apologies are due, methinks

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4408613/

David Catania has been one of George W. Bush's most loyal supporters. The Washington, D.C., city councilman has raised nearly $80,000 for the president's re-election. He's a Bush delegate to this summer's GOP convention and holds a seat on the platform committee, which shapes the party's official agenda. But last week Catania, like many other gay Republicans, was furious at the president's backing of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Now he's dropping his fund-raising efforts and no longer plans to vote for Bush. "You know the concept of buyer's remorse? I've got it," he says. "I want my money back." Now Catania intends to fight the amendment on the platform committee and work against a second Bush term.

Catania is a member of the "Austin 12," an informal group of gay Republicans who advised the Bush 2000 campaign, serving as a sounding board on gay issues. In April of that year, the 12 traveled to Austin to meet with the then Governor Bush, who was eager to burnish his image as a "compassionate conservative." He'd resisted meeting with the chief gay GOP group, the Log Cabin Republicans—they'd backed his presidential-primary rival John McCain—but agreed to sit down with a dozen handpicked gay supporters.

Speaking as a gay man who did NOT sell out to big money right-wing asses like Bush, I say all the "Austin 12" owe ALL of us an apology.

You owe us an apology for accusing us of "demogoguery" when we noted what a far-right extremist is.

You owe us an apology for helping place in office the most dangerous ideologue in several generations.

You owe us an apology for being the "house homos" who willingly sat and pointed at Bush as "wonderful" and "totally pro-gay."

You owe us an apology for your fake "shock" over Bush's anti-gay amendment, when you, I and EVERYONE else knew he was going to back it since he became a candidate for the White House.

You owe every gay child, every gay family and every gay person who has been assaulted, rejected, fired, denied housing, or otherwise abused due to this administration's policy a big apology.

And no, "resigning" to show your disgust and pushing Democrats for an electoral cycle is not an apology. You have to not only undo the damage you've done, but also admit, publicly, that what you did was WRONG.

then again they would sell out their dignity and rights for a larger tax cut..

maybe they dont understand why dignity is important to people..and why people like me would never want to be associated with the right who constantly say "Homosexuals are deviants on a one way ticket to hell!"... if they did they would not vote for him in the first place

But you hit the nail on it's ugly head.

I think I can understand your anger. As someone who has actively spoken out against the Bush Crime Family among friends and relatives for over twenty years, I can tell you it is very difficult for me not to explode with the well-aimed "I told you so", especially now that it is dawning on them that they have been had.

But I have been holding my tongue and welcome them into the fight without recrimination. If it means expanding the "big tent" to our newly converted brothers and sisters in the "Log Cabin", so be it.

Welcome aboard fellow patriots..."Let's get those Bush Bastards."

Whatever it takes.

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Bush is a homophobe.....???? Wha-Wha Whaaaaaa??????!!!!


Who knew!!!

Fucking idiots.

Right now, roll out the red carpet. Anybody against Bush is an ally right now.

come november if bush offers them a bigger tax cut wanna bet they will take that instead fighting for their right to marry?

They, like all Republicans, care deeply about what happens to them.

Once they get full rights to marry from Democratic politics, which will costs Democrats everywhere political capital to provide, they will return to their strongly held right-wing belief that everybody else's problems aren't their problem.

that you get to fight for people who will turn around and kick you as soon as they get what they want.

It isn't just gays, that's just this week's controversial issue. Call me cynical but I think that if Democrats got factory farm subsidies shifted to small farms, or made Social Security fully solvent for worried seniors, or rewrote NAFTA to protect work from flying overseas, that farmers, seniors and workers would vote strongly Republican in the very next election because 'I believe in 'family values''.

And anyway, why should my tax dollars support steel tariffs or unemployment benefits or foreign bailouts?

And while we're at it, make those Log Cabinettes do some groveling as well.