FRC HAS IS IT ALL FIGURED OUT…. Interest in former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman’s announcement that he’s gay seems to have come and gone fairly quickly, but the religious right isn’t about to let this go.
Take the Family Research Council, for example. Yesterday, the D.C.-based religious right powerhouse made the bizarre case to its supporters that Republicans would have done better in the 2006 and 2008 elections if only Mehlman had been straight. From its message to FRC backers:
This unfortunate confirmation helps explain the scandalous failure of many in the Republican establishment to vigorously uphold the values and policy positions expressed in the party’s platform in 2004 and 2008, particularly the need to protect the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman nationwide. While grassroots activists succeeded in passing marriage amendments in dozens of states across the country, they received little support and even outright resistance from Party officials at the national level, which contributed to the GOP’s electoral failures in 2006 and 2008. Now we know one of the major reasons why.
Yes, if only Republican officials hated gay people just a little more, Democrats — buoyed by unpopular wars, a failing economy, and GOP scandals — wouldn’t have done so well.
That support nationwide for gay rights is growing, not shrinking, is probably a minor detail that the FRC prefers to ignore.
