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GOP Courting Homosexual Vote -- A 'Recipe for Disaster'
(AgapePress) - When Republican National Committee Chairman Mark Racicot met with homosexual activists recently, it caused a chorus of criticism from the pro-family lobby across the country.
Bob Knight of the Culture and Family Institute says Racicot's address at a Human Rights Campaign meeting in early March is the latest in a series of apparent efforts by the Bush Administration to court the homosexual vote. Knight believes the GOP has been misguided about its pro-family Christian voter base.
"I think there is a view in the White House that somehow Christian conservatives will stay in the GOP camp no matter what they do on the homosexual issue -- and that if they promote homosexuality, that will give them a look of compassion among, say, suburban housewives," he says.
"Somebody is feeding them exactly the wrong advice: to move to the left on homosexual activism."
Knight calls this strategy "a recipe for disaster" and maintains the pro-family Christian voters will not accept this compromise. Saying it will not go unnoticed by conservatives in the GOP, he laments: "Some GOP leaders seem intent on cutting off their right arm in order to reach out with their left."
He suggests Christians start returning contribution requests with a note saying they will contribute only when the GOP changes its pro-homosexual policy.
© 2003 AgapePress all rights reserved.
"I think there is a view in the White House that somehow Christian conservatives will stay in the GOP camp no matter what they do on the homosexual issue -- and that if they promote homosexuality, that will give them a look of compassion among, say, suburban housewives," he says.
"Somebody is feeding them exactly the wrong advice: to move to the left on homosexual activism."
Knight calls this strategy "a recipe for disaster" and maintains the pro-family Christian voters will not accept this compromise. Saying it will not go unnoticed by conservatives in the GOP, he laments: "Some GOP leaders seem intent on cutting off their right arm in order to reach out with their left."
He suggests Christians start returning contribution requests with a note saying they will contribute only when the GOP changes its pro-homosexual policy.
© 2003 AgapePress all rights reserved.
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