“Leans” from a mobster point of view, that is.
After discovering that Pete Sessions, new head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, had the audacity to meet with the (gasp) Log Cabin Republicans (a group of gays that, because of other ideological alignment, works within the Republican party), the FRC made public their displeasure.
According to a press release from the pro-gay “marriage” group, Log Cabin Republicans, one of the first stops for the newly elected Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Texas), was the fundraising dinner for the homosexual organization. The release states that Representative Sessions said that the GOP cannot win elections and reach out to voters if it continues to oppose the issues that Log Cabin stands for, presumably including same-sex “marriage.” My team sought clarification from Sessions’ office and was told he did speak to the Log Cabin group, but that a copy of his remarks was not available.
If the Log Cabin portrayal is true, it is disturbing on a number of accounts. One, Sessions’ new position as the head of the NRCC is to train and recruit new candidates for the Republican Party. If this is his idea of “campaign advice” then the Republicans better prepare for a longer term in the minority then they faced prior to 1994.
Secondly, if the GOP is serious about reaching out to new voters, especially African-Americans and Hispanics, then it should look closely at the exit polls on issues important to families. Both minority groups strongly support traditional family values that embrace life and protect marriage, two things the Republican Party once stood for also.
Under these circumstances, pro-family voters should reserve judgment about giving their financial support to either political party.
I’m good with this either way. If the FRC drags the GOP to the social right, then (despite the FRC’s assertion), the party will simply just be that much further marginalized. If the GOP actually grows a pair and tells the FRC it won’t toe its line, then the party will show a drift toward the center that I can only applaud.