Is the General Public Making Gay Republicans Irrelevant

11.16.2012
BY LANE HUDSON

Or are LGBT Republicans proving themselves to be complete failures?

I have long advocated privately and publicly for tolerance among LGBT Democrats for the work of LGBT Republicans. It’s always been a touchy subject, with LGBT Democrats at a loss for how someone in their community could actually be a Republican. The Log Cabins, and now GOProud, have argued that they are building tolerance within the Republican Party and that they are conservatives that care about more than simply LGBT issues.For years, I have desperately wanted them to play a role in the Republican Party that would bring them along on issues of equality. The time may have come that they have become irrelevant to the process. Republicans will control the U.S. House in the new Congress, by a smaller margin than before, yet this simple fact has caused an entire movement to assume any LGBT legislation is dead on arrival for the next two years. This fact alone shows that LGBT Republicans have been a failure.