{"id":25707,"date":"2019-08-26T09:21:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25707"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:21:45","slug":"your-foot-is-out-of-bounds-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/26\/your-foot-is-out-of-bounds-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Foot Is Out Of Bounds, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/16\/your-foot-is-out-of-bounds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em> piece<\/a> in which a couple of high ranking Log Cabin members endorsed President Trump? It appears that other Log Cabin members simply couldn&#8217;t abide such a terribly reasoned endorsement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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D.C. chapter of the national LGBT group Log Cabin Republicans, announced in a Facebook message on Aug. 15 that he has withdrawn his membership in the organization after it announced in an op-ed column in the Washington Post that it endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election in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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt saddens me greatly to say that today, I am ending my association with Log Cabin Republicans, an organization I\u2019ve been heavily involved with for the last decade \u2013 including serving as president of the D.C. chapter for three years,\u201d Turner said in his Facebook post. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for me,\u201d Turner continued, \u201cthere\u2019s no more fight left. The national board\u2019s endorsement of Trump, and their subsequent and hollow WaPo op-ed, is a step too far. And this leaves me sad.\u201d\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonblade.com\/2019\/08\/19\/former-d-c-log-cabin-head-leaves-group-over-trump-endorsement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Washington Blade<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It makes me wonder just how much of <em>clinging to power<\/em> 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&#8217;s emotions to dictate one&#8217;s moral choices is a dangerous move to make. People lose respect for you.<\/p>\n<p>Like Mr. Turner basically just said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/26\/your-foot-is-out-of-bounds-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25708,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25707\/revisions\/25708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}