Log Cabin Republicans

There's going to be scrambling, and there's going to have to be some soul-searching.

I don't know what they do with a party that has so effectively propagandized its faithful that, you know, listening to the Bulwark Libs, formerly the Log Cabin Republicans, They still have connections in the GOP, and they've been complaining.

Incidentally, Rod Dreher, who's very far from that type of centrist Mitt Romney strain of republicanism, both have commented on the fact that the younger generation, the sort of under 30, maybe under 35, Republican operatives are all full-blown white Christian nationalists.

Groypers.

She finished college not long after 9-11 and went to work for Republicans, the party that she saw as being on the side of America.

Longwell spent the next 15 years as a party operative and became the first woman to chair the Log Cabin Republicans, a group for gay, lesbian, and bisexual Republicans and their allies.

Then Donald Trump took over her party and Longwell walked away.

She helped start the media company The Bulwark and now spends her time trying to better understand the voters who put Trump in office.

And I think a lot of it, like you grow up and you're influenced by your parents and where you grew up and all of stuff.

Like it takes you a while to find your own place But I did sort of stay as a Republican maybe longer than I might have otherwise, in part because I thought it was so important or identified as a Republican.

I thought it was so important to be a Republican inside the Republican Party fighting for uh both marriage equality and um don't ask don't tell repeal which is what log cabin republicans were doing and i people kind of hurl that at me today where they're like you were a log cabin republican what an insane thing to be and i can only tell you that everyone who worked on those issues will tell you that it was of critical importance to have voices on the right who could make a conservative case for gay marriage to people who were conservative and and people who are Republicans.

And it did work.

They showed up on my front porch.

And as the Illinois president of parents involved in education, I was running three different events at big venues with Moms for Liberty, Moms for America, No Left Turns, Gays Against Groomers, Log Cabin Republicans.

Antifa, and this guy Jeff Tischhauser, Antifa, They would contact the venues.

They'd send the managers the SPLC story, Racist Bigot Nazis.

And that's the later act that the church support supported that was also robust religious freedom protections in exchange for a lot increased what others would call tolerances for gay marriage.

My campaign manager is chair of the Boston chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans.

Oh, what great guys.

I got a lot of buddies in the Log Cabin Republicans.

They're kind of cool.

Don't know what they're like over there in Massachusetts.

Okay.

What's that mean? Directly countering lies Goldberg told about me during a Democratic state convention speech on May 30th, 2026.

I remember the discussions through the years.

And so I observed, but then on the other hand, early on as I was even closer to Republican politics, there were a group of Republicans called the Log Cabin Republicans.

And they were fiscally conservative.

socially conservative, a lot of them, but they were gay.

I'm grateful my church explicitly supported the 2022 Respect for Marriage Act.

My campaign manager is chair of the Boston chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans, Gay Republicans.

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I am pro-choice.