White House strikes back at Red Map. They did it again.

White House Confers With GOP Gays
NewsMax.com
Sunday, May 11, 2003
The highlight of the Log Cabin Republicans’ annual convention was a meeting Friday between senior White House officials and the membership of the gay group – at a time of open dissension in the ranks over the GOP’s stance on gay rights and same-sex marriages.
With longtime GOP activist Paul Weyrich, head of the Washington-based Free Congress Foundation and others warning that Republicans could lose the votes of the party’s conservative base if it weakens or changes its stand on key social issues — including its opposition to gay rights and same-sex marriages — the briefing at the Old Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House capped a three day event that included talks on gays in the military, a tour of the Capitol and a reception for members of Congress, according to the New York Times.

Although conferees at the White House briefing played down any ideological battles ongoing in the party, in an earlier address to the group, Rich Galen, a Republican strategist, remarked about what he perceived as a double standard: “In America in 2003, you can’t say bad things about African-Americans, but you can still say bad things about gays.”

The links to other articles in the sidebar of the article Mr. Auster links, notably the one about “pedophilia chic,” are worth following.

I followed Mr. Kalb’s lead and read that “chic” article. Disturbing just isn’t the word. I’m old enough to remember a day when predicting that the country’s moral decline would lead to results like this would have one lampooned as paranoid and conspiracy-minded.

Here it is.

As a Christian, I expect the world to descend lower and lower until judgment. Still, when I think about whether and if things could turn around, when we’re reaching a point like this, I wonder just what it would take. It seems like it would require measures too drastic to contemplate. I guess that’s another topic for another day.

Like Joel, I also wonder just what it really would take for large numbers of people to come to their senses. If hijacked airliners being flown into skyscrapers isn’t enough to cause some to at least question the direction we’ve been headed in, what on earth would? I see little evidence of any significant change among ordinary Americans. They seem as clueless and accepting of the poison they are fed each day as during the Clinton years. The leftist/liberal hydra marches on with only rear-guard opposition here and there - it continues on its evil path even in the red state places.