Human Rights
Campaign president Joe Solmonese released a statement
Wednesday taking Log Cabin Republicans to task for its
endorsement of Republican presidential hopeful John
McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin.
In the public
statement, sent to all HRC members via e-mail and posted on
HRC.org, Solmonese clearly outlined
McCain's contribution to "writing
discrimination into" the Constitution.
"John McCain
claims to be a maverick who breaks with his party, but
on matters of LGBT equality, he's shown that he's anything
but," Solmonese said.
Responding to the
Republican platform, which was officially laid out on
Monday at the party's national convention, Solmonese
used marriage, military service, and faith-based
organizations as firepower against Log Cabin's
endorsement.
"The
Republican Party, McCain and Palin's party, has declared in
its platform that they want to pass the Federal
Marriage Amendment," Solmonese said in the
statement. "Their party's platform also calls gay
and lesbian Americans unfit for military service, supports
policies that would allow faith-based organizations to
deny us jobs and services using federal dollars, and
attacks judges who acknowledge our equality under the
law."
The Republican
platform also endorses the renewal of the E-Verify
employee verification system, which potentially creates
chaos for transgender individuals whose documents may
not be consistent, as well as abstinence-only sex
education programs, according to PinkNews.UK.
The platform
calls for "the continuation of failed
abstinence-only-until-marriage sexuality education programs,
which exclude and even demonize GLBT people,"
Solmonese added. (The Advocate)