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Eva Young is President of Log Cabin Republicans of Minnesota and lives in Minneapolis with her cat, Kiddleleewink. You can also read her other blog here.
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September 12, 2004

Boifromtroy's post about CNN rejecting Log Cabin Republicans ad has generated a little blog debate. Kalblog has criticized the ad for comparing Falwell to Phelps and praised CNN for refusing the ad. Discount Blogger disagrees, noting Falwell's comments about 9/11.

Eric Scheie comments on the Discount Blogger post.

A couple of points:

1. CNN has run ads for gay travel.

2. The Log Cabin ad is nowhere near as controversial as the ads for Fahrenheit 9/11 -- which were admitted by Michael Moore to be political advertising. CNN ran Fahrenheit 9/11 ads!

I suspect that the reason for the refusal is because the powers that be in CNN would like to downplay the existence of gay conservatives.

BoifromTroy's commenters and the Concerned Women for America are trying to change the subject from the real message of the Log Cabin Republicans ad.

Some examples:

Missouri just voted 71 per cent against gay marriage. Kerry has given up in Arkansas because there's a similar measure on the November ballot. California was 64 per cent against gay marriage. Catch a clue, guys. The Democratic party is your natural home. Maybe you can get them to develop a greater interest in free market economics.

Yup, the real agenda of the Leviticus Crowd is to keep gay conservatives out of the Republican party.

Finally, this was pretty clearly an anti-Republican smear tactic* on the part of the LCR and the response of the Republican Party should be to cut off the LCR from any official recognition (assuming that they have any) as a GOP affiliate.

The Leviticus Crowd would love to say the ad is attacking "Republicans" or attacking "conservatives." The truth is there is nothing "conservative" about anti-gay bigotry. The ad was attacking bigotry.

Bill McCollum (no liberal) made the same point when he attacked Mel Martinez's campaign as the "politics of hate and bigotry".

I do think LCR may have made a strategic mistake of focusing excessive emotional energy on the Bush campaign, when they could have made a difference by doing some advertising in the Florida primary. I am glad they are going to be focusing on helping Inclusive Republicans win in Senate and House races.