Remember that WaPo piece in which a couple of high ranking Log Cabin members endorsed President Trump? It appears that other Log Cabin members simply couldn’t abide such a terribly reasoned endorsement:
Robert Turner, the former president of the D.C. chapter of the national LGBT group Log Cabin Republicans, announced in a Facebook message on Aug. 15 that he has withdrawn his membership in the organization after it announced in an op-ed column in the Washington Post that it endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election in 2020.
“It saddens me greatly to say that today, I am ending my association with Log Cabin Republicans, an organization I’ve been heavily involved with for the last decade – including serving as president of the D.C. chapter for three years,” Turner said in his Facebook post. …
“But for me,” Turner continued, “there’s no more fight left. The national board’s endorsement of Trump, and their subsequent and hollow WaPo op-ed, is a step too far. And this leaves me sad.” [Washington Blade]
It makes me wonder just how much of clinging to power syndrome motivated that ill-considered endorsement. Granted, being a conservative LGBTQ+ person is a bit of a solitary path to walk, although Andrew Sullivan has done an admirable job of it for 20+ (or is it 30+ years, Andrew?), but allowing one’s emotions to dictate one’s moral choices is a dangerous move to make. People lose respect for you.
Like Mr. Turner basically just said.
