And this is why I’ve never understood how "Log Cabin" Republicans explain themselves…

@DeWayfarer They still exist. You can assume if I’m talking about them I know some personally.

The last event they formally hosted was shortly before the election:

@bijouxbroussard I know they exist. They are still totally misguided extremists.

The origin of log cabin Republican is with Abraham Lincoln only. Long before 1974. That is when this version started.

@DeWayfarer Even so, this is what they call themselves now. And they insist that it’s how they square their conservative "values" with their sexual orientation.

Years ago, I can remember asking the ones I know how they could still belong to a party that didn’t support their right to marry their partner of choice ?

@bijouxbroussard This reterming of ideology is going to hit itself and knock itself out some day soon.

There is no such thing as a log cabin Republican today. And a real one would argue endlessly, over this very redefinition.

My father in-law was one. My half brother's first wife's father. He was old even then in the 70s.

@DeWayfarer I’m telling you, there are still people who call themselves that. And apparently the meaning has changed. Everything is "rebranded" now.

@bijouxbroussard And I'm telling you it doesn't make it right.

It's the same argument that Republicans have made for decades on end. And this is coming from a decades long time Democrat.

Please understand this a Republican view. Which is why what the LGBTQ themselves are saying is wrong with their own Republican political stance.

It's like saying atheist are Republicans. I've come across that attitude as well. It's still not correct to say it, even if they are a minority within the Republican party.

Log cabin Republics belongs to a long withstanding Republican view dating back to Abraham Lincoln.

Change it and you are no longer Republicans.

Republicans are the one's against ANY type of change.

Change is bad to a Republican. ANY TYPE OF CHANGE.

It's why they have the slogan MAGA.

They want the past back.

If you are LGBTQ, you simply can't be Republican.

It would require a change in the whole Republican political stance. Not just a minority.

@DeWayfarer That’s what you think, and you’re not alone, but the fact remains, there are people who are LGBTQ who are registered and do vote Republican. It isn’t a large percentage, but yeah, they exist. And they have their own reasons, in the privacy of the ballot booth, for doing so.

@bijouxbroussard They are a minority. They can't change the political views of the Republican party.

Project 2025 itself calls for their removal from the Republican party.

@DeWayfarer Get back to me when they’re gone. Because right now they aren’t. This video kinda illustrates that, even if some are closeted.

@bijouxbroussard They are closeted because they are not the Republican norm!

If there was no need to be closeted. THEN the Republican party would have to have changed. And only then.

@DeWayfarer Yes.
Yet they stay, and identify themselves as Republicans. 🤷🏽‍♀

@bijouxbroussard they are extremists within the Republican party.

Nothing more. They could call themselves anything they like yet still not be Republicans.

@DeWayfarer If they consistently vote Republican, what is the difference ?

@bijouxbroussard The party stance is for NO CHANGE.

That is the difference.

To change that stance THE WHOLE Republican party would have to change.

@DeWayfarer And the GOP is still that reactionary party. Whether it’s a gay person voting for them, a person of color voting for them, or a woman voting for them…right ? So anyone voting Republican is a Republican in the primary way that counts.

@bijouxbroussard No!

There's a independent on this site that doesn't agree with many Trump's policies. So that person has voted consistently for the democratic party.

That doesn't make them Democrats. And would argue emphatically against being called a Democrat.

Same reasoning. BTW she is a member of the LGBTQ.

You may even know her.

I'm proud to call her a friend.

@bijouxbroussard Yes. Republicans can not stand that type of change.

Change is the the key word here.

@bijouxbroussard Nor does it stop that independent from voting democratic.

I wouldn't call her a Democrat either.

@DeWayfarer Why wouldn’t an independent vote democratic ?

@bijouxbroussard I never said she wouldn't. Independents are not adverse to change. Republicans are.

@DeWayfarer Exactly. So an independent voting democratic makes perfect sense.

But some people who vote Republican are voting against their best interests, yet they define themselves as members of the GOP.

Which was actually the point of my post.

@bijouxbroussard I know. And why I initially stated...

@DeWayfarer That, I won’t argue. But I won’t say they’re not Republicans if that’s how they indentify themselves.