Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:59:57 -0500 (EST) From: A Jay Eddy Subject: Beating Up On All Republicans and Log Cabin For Immediate Release October 28, 1998 Contact: Broward Log Cabin Club of FL (954) LCR-1995 P.O. Box 1281 Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33302 WHILE LIBERAL LESBIBAY DEMOCRATS BEAT UP ON REPUBLICANS THEY ARE ALSO HURTING THEIR OWN IN A COULD-CARE-LESS WITCH HUNT There is no doubt that the secrecy veil, which unfriendly LesBiGays and Socially-Conservative-Fundamentalist Republicans hang over the Log Cabin Progressive Republicans movement, is effective in blocking out the essence of a "two sides to ever story" theory. Seemingly, the off-the-center left-and-right extremes have their own agenda (cloaked in a covert one-sided freedom of speech and press approach) which betrays the temperance of the politically social and fiscally moderate American picture. Carmen Vazquez recently used her rhetoric, based in intolerant social liberalism, to bash anyone and anything that would reach out in compromise. In her one-sided version of betrayal (one that intimidates LesBiGays who are not involved or under her political dooms-day tent) she relentlessly attacks, smears and scorches. In contrast, Bob Roehr tempers reality by indicating that Republicans gave HIV/AIDS programs millions even after cutting HOPWA housing by sending more millions in windfall funds to the omnibus bill. Roehr then addresses the smashing defeat of the Heferly Amendment by supportive Republicans. He sums things up by suggesting "despite all the rhetoric and posturing, the final product of anti-gay legislation was remarkable small" but that's contrary to what's being reported by a few organizations and a number of grass-root rags. Some claim that life's unfair and perhaps so. But, in this heated election cycle, did anyone hear the "unfriendly" left or right complement the good work of moderates who reach out in dialogue with Log Cabin Republicans and HRC? If you did not it may be the result of a "righteousness" void some may not want to address in their political make up.