The Board of Directors of “GOProud,” the national organization of gay conservatives, voted Tuesday to endorse presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, adding that it was “prepared to commit significant resources” to ensure his victory.
Jimmy LaSalvia
The group cited Romney’s economic positions as the basis of its endorsement, while noting that it differed with the candidate on the issue of marriage equality.
“Most gay Americans, like their straight counterparts, are not better off than they were four years ago,” said Jimmy LaSalvia, GOProud executive director, in a statement. “The truth is that gay people are living in the disastrous, failed Obama economy too.
“President Obama and his friends on the left want this election to be about divisive social issues, because the president’s record on jobs and the economy is indefensible. At this critical juncture, we need a president with the experience and expertise to turn this economy around. Someone who knows how the free markets work. Former Gov. Mitt Romney is that candidate.”
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“It takes a lot of chutzpah — and not a small amount of delusion — for a gay organization to find room to endorse a staunchly anti-LGBT candidate like Mitt Romney,” said Jerame Davis, Executive Director of National Stonewall Democrats.
“Not only has he gone on record repeatedly stating his anti-LGBT positions, he’s put his bigotry in writing. Last year, Romney signed the National Organization for Marriage’s anti-LGBT pledge that, among other things, calls for a federal constitutional amendment banning marriage equality in addition to McCarthy-style investigations of the LGBT community,” Davis said.
“That alone should be enough to deny any candidate an endorsement,” continued Davis.
“Apparently GOProud is more interested in toadying up to the GOP establishment and making excuses for their bigoted behavior than they are in pushing that party forward on LGBT equality. It’s sad, really, when you think about it: there are two gay conservative organizations on the national scene and neither seems willing to stand up to the anti-LGBT hatred in the Republican Party,” he said.
Go Proud was founded in 2009 by LaSalvia and Christopher Barron, two former members of the Log Cabin Republicans.
Barron was not among those voting to endorse Romney because he has personally endorsed Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson.
Gay rights activist Dan Savage, founder of the “It Gets Better” campaign, reacted with this tweet: “The GOP’s house faggots grab their ankles, right on cue.”
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uhm why?!
Headdesk
What a crock!
Good for them; all their hairs cuts suck!
assholes
WTF?….You have to be kidding? They are obviously insane!
lol
you cannot be serious
Stupidity crosses all lines!
Yep insane is right.
Fools!
Honey, get a clue. They hate your bitch ass!
I have NO respect for that group.
This is sad……. they should be so ashame of themself!
Good for them they must like being in a musty closet!
“GOProud” so selfish and narcissistic that they’ll sell out their civil rights for the supposed benefit of their checkbooks.
WTF? Really?
Lol. Mitt Romney has done nothing to stand up for gay conservatives.
And what sense does this make?
jackasses
Is this a haha funny or serious?
Maybe that’ll weaken the GOP because the religious right won’t want to align with them!
Any measure at all proves that Obama is better for the LGBT community. But these guys must want to be let up in the house.
Really!I cant believe this!! He wont give us the right to marry and you support this damn ass!!
remember vote OBAMA hes for marriage equality if we get the other guy it will only undo all that has been worked for to get what we have so far
wankers
aka Self-Haters
Fu**ing idiots! No accounting for supreme stupidity!
Gay… Oblivious… and Proud?
Revoke their Fabulousness Liscenses now!
Every group of people has their own village idiots. Why should gays be any different?
well that’s just stupid…
#GoAway
….what….how..no….WHY?!?!?…
Not sure how proud they are endorsing a guy who will work to keep rights out of the reach of their own kind. Delusional idiots.
Whatever . . . .
Another group of selfloathing gays who believe we deserve more oppression! Yawn!
Saw someone commented earlier at Yahoo, this is akin to “Jews for Hitler” group.
“Oxymoronic” > any LGBT person supporting a republican candidate. Yikes.
Really are you serious you fucking idiots.
:I
they really want to go back into the closet, don’t they? real damn shame!
Wrong side of history…again! SMDH
fuck them
CANNIBLES!!!
Jews endorsing Hitler. What level of cognizant dissonance does that indicate? Sheesh.
THOSE gays give me gas.
This is a double standard to me?! I don’t get it. How can you support someone who is so openly against your civil rights?! Let alone the civil rights of others!?!?! Idiots….
They obviously have been drinking the Kool-Aid. Talk about poison to the mind, GOProud had totally lost it and have absolutely NOTHING to be proud of!!!
I voted for Gore and i think those computerized voting machines are jerry rigged. I understand that a few people are wealthy and don’t want to pay they’re fair share but come on! There arent that many!
conservatives run on fear that those with little are out to get everything they have.
I vote yes for the guy holding a gun to go ahead and shoot me in the face. Bout the same no?
“Stupid” is an equal-opportunity affliction.
WTF???? He’s a moron!
Gay is the new black these days but for some folks the old black is still black enough
i have never understood any gay person can be a member of a party who hates the very thing that makes them unique.
WTH
Idiots! Absolutely asinine ! They bought into the snake oil salesman !
Dafuq did I just read? Really?
Michael Equality Barber, you are right about history. And, Rmoney will have the power to order round the ups !
Sorry… To order the round ups!
after he fired his gay staffer, they are endorsing him?
They weren’t even invited to the convention…
Self loathing is so unbecoming
It’s amazing what happens when you turn a blind eye to bigotry. You actually loose a lot of your self. Very sad
How can GOProud support a man who has signed a pledge saying he would make a constitutional amendment declaring marriage between one man and one woman?
Talk about selling your sole to the devil at a very cheap rate. A bunch of fools who don’t value themselves at all.
is this a cartoon? I fell like Warner Brothers sound effects should be in the background. Mitt admitted to beating up a gay kid when he was young, WTF?
Ummmmm…………….ok??????
I wonder how many women are in GoProud.
wow what an oximoron
“GOProud” is a SCUM organizations if there ever was one!
STUPIDITY!!!
I was a Republican from age 12 till GW Bush. When the Religious Right took over the party and started Gay Bashing, it was time to take my vote, my money and and party affiliation and become and Independent.
Boooo!
Absolutely preposterous. I guess they like money more than Human Rights.
wth….
Their Board of Directors includes Ann Coulter. I truly couldn’t care less what they endorse and Mitt will NEVER acknowledge the endorsement or meet with them. But I’m glad they’ve aligned themselves with a party whose extremists want to enclose them in an electrified fence and starve them to death. Their pursuit of happiness is taking a little different tack than mine.
How self loathing to you have to be to endorse someone who is against something so fundamental in your life like Same Sex Marriage / Civil Rights?
lolwut
retards
that was smart…they endorse a guy who promises to take away all of their rights if he’s elected. More like GOPissonyourrights is what they’re doing!
freaking log cabin republicans ..they think he’ll help their bank accounts ..how good is their job situation going to look when the polices that protect employee discrimination due to sex orientation disappear ..