Wishful Thinking Or BS?

The list is almost endless of Republicans trying to block anything LGBT from marriage to equal rights to adoption to rounding us up and putting us in to concentration camps.

So it was with much amazement that I read that a trans-woman is a Republican and it is even more amazing what she had to say about her party…

Transgender and Republican: Lauren Scott could make history in November
Las Vegas Sun
By Kyle Roerink
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Lauren Scott isn’t running a typical Republican campaign.

She is a transgender, renewable energy consultant running for Assembly District 30 in Washoe County.
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You worked on John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign in Florida as an LGBT campaign chair. Why did you switch to the Republican Party?

I believe in competition and business development. I want a job. I know people want to work.

By working in the Legislature, I see how the Democrats exploit minorities to pass other policies. The Democrats have passed a lot of LGBT initiatives, but look at history: the Democrats and Jim Crow. Bill Clinton signed “don’t ask, don’t tell.” It was Log Cabin Republicans who got that repealed. A lot of my platform is good economic policy and fiscal development and that I happen to be transgender.
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I think I am one of many faces. Log Cabin Republicans are growing leaps and bounds. Log Cabins have been active in Las Vegas and are starting in Reno. Though the party and Fox News won’t tell you this: There are more Latinos and transgender people joining the party.

At a local level Republicans are willing to listen and talk to you. They’re not looking for someone who’s radical.

“It was Log Cabin Republicans who got that repealed” really? It is nice to live in a dream world where you look through rose colors glasses. The Log Cabin Republicans were kicked out of the Texas GOP convention. The Houston Chronicle reported,

AUSTIN – The Texas Republican Party has denied a request by the Log Cabin Republicans, a national group representing gay conservatives, to man a booth at the state party’s annual convention in Fort Worth next week, a move the group says threatens to give fodder to Democrats seeking to turn Texas blue.

The refusal is just one small part of the LCR’s concerns with the state party and the platform it’s espousing. The Texas GOP denied the request based on language in the 2012 party platform that states, “the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family unit.” But Gregory T. Angelo, LCR National executive director, said he was not interested in an offer from the Texas Democratic Party to attend its convention.

“Thanks. But no thanks,” Angel said in response to the offer. “We’re loyal Republicans.” Angelo said his group is determined to show the Texas state party it is out of step with national trends, adding there is pressure from the state party’s “anti-gay fringe” to add language to the platform that supports programs attempting to convince gay youth they can be “converted” straight.

They also received the snub at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the Huffington Post wrote,

WASHINGTON -- Though the Republican Party's stance on same-sex marriage faced criticism from within its own ranks following the 2012 election, this year's session of the top conservative gabfest will not include the two leading conservative gay rights groups.

GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans will not be participating in the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, top executives from both groups confirmed on Wednesday.

"We were kicked out last year and nothing has changed and we wont be at CPAC," GOProud's Jimmy LaSalvia said in an interview. "The last communication I've had from them is that we were kicked out. Nothing has changed."

Dream a little dream Ms. Scott…

And as for “There are more Latinos and transgender people joining the party.” I suppose that is true, you joined and the number of trans-Republicans in Nevada increased by a 100%. How many transgender delegates were are the Republican 2012 National Convention, zero. How many at the Democratic National Convention, 13 and the Democrats had a total of 486 LGBT delegates at their convention. I searched and searched the web to find out the total LGBT delegates at the Republican National Convention and all I could find was this in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette…

On Sunday, he attended a convention welcome party sponsored by the Log Cabin Republicans, a group that advocates equality for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered Americans.

Log Cabin Republicans sponsored the hors d'oeuvres reception. Gay rights groups are hosting other events this week to coincide with the Republican National Convention in Tampa, too. There's a brunch to honor gay delegates, an "Out to Win" party to support gay candidates in down-ticket races, and GOProud's "Homocon," which organizers promise will be a party, not "one of those boring GOP cocktail receptions."

And nowhere did it say how many attended the party, judging from the video I would say less than fifty. Meanwhile at the other party…

They cheered when Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz said marriage should be between one man and one woman, and they clapped when coalition founder Ralph Reed slammed President Barack Obama for supporting gay marriage.

Yes Ms. Scott can dream your dream but in reality there are Republican leaders who want you put in a concentration camp.

Update 7/9/14
Not only do they want to put us in concentration camps but they want to stone us, according to MSNBC...

Scott Esk, a Republican candidate for the Oklahoma state house, endorsed stoning gay people to death last year in a comment thread on Facebook.

In published screenshots from TheMooreDaily.com, a local news site in Oklahoma, Esk was discussing a story about the Pope in July of 2013 when he left a comment quoting Leviticus 20:13 from the New American Standard Bible which reads:

    If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

In the back and forth comments that followed, Esk was asked by another Facebook user, “So, just to be clear, you think we should execute homosexuals (presumably by stoning)?”

“I think we would be totally in the right to do it,“ Scott Esk replies. “That goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I’m largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”