Bucking the Democrat narrative started by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016 that 73-year-old President Donald Trump is “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic,” the House’s Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Trump for reelection. Today’s endorsement threw the press for a loop, since Democrats and their media friends have practically stood on their heads branding Trump as homophobic, etc. Log Cabin Republicans withheld their endorsement for Trump in 2016, seeing too much pandering to evangelicals in the last election cycle. This time around, Log Cabin Republicans agree with much of Trump’s policies, despite disagreeing with him on transgenders in the military. While Trump re-instituted the transgender ban, he hasn’t done much against the LGBTQ community, other than stopping U.S. embassies from flying gay-pride flags.
Gay activists don’t like Trump’s position on the transgender community, especially their willingness to serve in the U.S. military. What Trump objects to is having the Veteran’s Administration [VA] pay for gender reassignment surgery and all the hormone treatment needed for successful conversions. Pro-gay rights groups complain about Trump’s support for the Colorado baker who, out of conscience, refused to sell a cake to a gay couple. Banning gay-pride flags at U.S. embassies doesn’t show Trump’s homophobia but rather common sense. If he lets the LGBTQ community fly their flag, he’d have to let other groups do the same. Endorsing Trump, Log Cabin Republicans see nothing objectionable about Trump treatment of the LGBTQ community, tossing a monkey wrench into the Democrat narrative. Endorsing Trump a year before the Republican National Convention speaks volumes.
Log Cabin Republicans endorsed John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romny in 2012, both of whom lost to former President Barack Obama. Writing the Washington Post, Log Cabin Chairman Robert Kabal and Vice Chairwoman Jill Homan praised Trump for advancing gay rights. “Removing gay rights as a wedge issue from the Republican playbook,” showed Trump was a friend to the LGBTQ community. “Taking bold actions that benefit the LGBTQ community,” said Kabal and Homan, helped to de-stigmatize the gay community. Getting the Log Cabin endorsement this early in the campaign shows that they’re satisfied with Trump’s efforts on part of the LGBTQ community. Kabal and Homan acknowledged Trump for working to end HIV/AIDS epidemic. Log Cabin Republicans weren’t afraid to refute the Democrat and mainstream media narrative against Trump.
Pointing to specific areas in which Trump has been helpful to the LGBTQ community, Kabal and Homan said their peace on the Post oped page. “He has committed to end the spread of HIV/AIDS in 10 years, through the use of proven science, medicine and technology to which we now have access,” wrote Kabal and Homans. One cannot understate the significance of Log Cabin Republicans giving it straight to their constituents. ”Trump has used the United States’ outsize global influence to persuade other nations to adopt modern human right standards, including launching an initiative to end the criminalization of homosexuality,” wrote Log Cabin Republican. These statements directly contradict the Democrat and mainstream press that Trump has a deeply homophobic bias. Log Cabin Republicans would not have endorsed Trump without weighing his White House track record.
Endorsing Trump this early, Log Cabin Republians want to put to rest any lingering doubts about Trump’s treatment of the LGBTQ community. When it comes to transsexuals, there are many moving parts, including the government paying for gender-reassignment surgery, hormone treatment, psychiatric services and counseling required to complete sex change. Trump’s opposition has nothing to do with discriminating against the transgenders, only concerns about the costs involved for the VA to complete gender reassignment procedures. Media portrayals of Trump are so twisted, so distorted and so biased that it took the Log Cabin Republicans to set the record straight. While Trump walks a fine line with the evangelical community, he’s open enough to know that the LGBTQ community deserves protective status under U.S. Civil Rights laws won over the last 50 years.
Log Cabin Republicans’ endorsement of Trump throws a monkey wrench into the Democrat and media narrative that Trump’s what Hillary described as “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic. While Hillary talked in 2016 about Trump’s “basket of deplorables,” referring to Trump’s base, Kabel and Homan corrected the record about Trump’s treatment of the LGBTQ community. “While we do not agree with every policy or platform position presented by the White House or Republican Party,” they offered their endorsement. “We share a commitment to individual responsibility, personal freedom and a strong national defense,” showing that Log Cabin Republicans stand for more than their narrow constituency. Republicans from the LGBTQ community are like any other American, concerned about the economy, safety, immigration and U.S. national security.
