Revolt Against the Rainbow RINOs

August 2022August 24, 2022By Pedro Gonzalez

The recent clash between the Texas Republican Party and the Republican National Committee exposes the growing divide between grassroots conservatism and the establishment GOP, especially with regard to the LGBT agenda . . .

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I would like to forward this column too others. But because of a lack of forwarding web sites such as e mail. I am unable to do so.

August 3, 2022 Robert Garner Reply
The R’s have been doing this FOR YEARS: ignoring the local and state platforms, and “going along” with the socialists in DC.
I remember being a precinct committeewoman in the 90’s, involved with the platform at the local and state level. Our platform was pro-American, pro-family, pro-life, etc. And it WAS IGNORED by the PTB R’s. I bagged them then, and have never looked back. The R’s and D’s today are the uniparty > 2 cheeks of the same butt.
However, kudos to Texas for this big splashy play!

August 3, 2022 Les Reply
The RINOS are going down left and right… true conservatives are winning… the idea that you should base your total identity on the way you have sex IS OVER!!… the beginning of the end for lgbtards.

August 3, 2022 Zippo Reply
We live in a godless secular society. Nevertheless Christians have a 1st amendment right to express their preference for a moral order that places a father and mother as foundational elements in the raising of children. Further, we object to the sexualization of children by groups that, for all intents and purposes are grooming the most innocent and vulnerable among us. Lastly, do your job with excellence and keep your private life private unless someone asks you and you choose to respond. I know many people don’t want to hear about my faith and I respect that. Understand that many of us don’t want to hear about your sexual preferences. Respect that.

August 3, 2022 Bro Ken Christian Reply
Thanks

August 3, 2022 Sam Villyard Reply
Amen, brother. Well said.

August 3, 2022 Jeffrey L Johnson Reply
Appears to me RINOS are endangered and about to go extinct.

August 3, 2022 John Acord Reply
Many conservatives have glbt people in their families. They see a steady torrent of fundamentalist malignment of their family members. To us, it is an astonishing thing to see professed Christians so blanketly fail to practice any semblance of Christian charity towards good people. To our eyes, we see that many professed Christians are only better in degree from violent muslims who hang sexual minorities.

God has stated that he judges our hearts, intents and actions. Anyone living to Christian principles should be welcomed. As the Lord and Savior Himself stated, remove the log from your own eye. Focus on your own sinful natures, counsel others in leading character-building lives in Christ. Condemn those who seek to punish others, casting stones, before they have purified their own hearts.

August 3, 2022 Brandi Reply
Well said!

August 3, 2022 Amanda St. John Reply
Thank you for the status report on conservatism in Texas. I don’t claim to be a Republican though they are most in line with what I believe. I generally vote for Republican candidates after listening to their platforms and following their actual, later performance once in office. Having observed the results and reexamined that decision from time to time, I continue to declare as an Independent. If I chose to even get it on with livestock, I would not bring it to the attention of my fellow citizens. Neither would I ask or demand that they instruct their children to cultivate similar tendencies. It would be part of my lifestyle and nobody’s business, necessarily, but mine. I first look for and support candidates that will keep the country strong, healthy and socially content. Without involving us in the individual and sometimes aberrant expressions of personal attraction, proper leadership should be able to get on with a program beneficial to all. Such a plan will probably not satisfy all, 100% of the time, but it should help make America great again forever. In the meantime, best wishes for a workable compromise.

August 3, 2022 charles trainor Reply
I harbor no animosity toward gay people and I agree with the Texas State position.

I don’t want gay people to leave the tent, I welcome them wholeheartedly.

I like and respect Grenell. I like and respect Peter Thiel. I like and respect smart aggressive conservatives, regardless of preference.

I’m tired of the militant, in your face, often angry, gay people who demand special status.

Bang who you bang…just keep it to yourself. I’m tired of gay folks shouting from the rooftops their perceived specialness and implied superiority.

Be with who you want to be with…..and leave me out of it. You don’t get special consideration for being gay. You don’t get extra points or an exhaulted status….likewise with my heterosexuality.

I say this as a life long Californian and an agnostic. Your sex life does not make you noteworthy. Go about your life and leave me alone. I have a lifetime of extending that courtesy to gay folks.

August 3, 2022 Brian Collier Reply
Pure rubbish! You obviously have a very shallow view in your understanding of scripture and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are all sinners, yes, but to openly, vehemently and aggressively promote such values, which are in direct opposition to Gods plan is another. Homosexuality is not to be normalized and you as a “Christian” should do everything in your power to oppose what is in direct opposition to Gods desire. Otherwise, there is NO sin from whence we need to repent from which to reconcile ourselves to him. The idea the you express are all based on false feelings of love by accepting everything and anything. Jesus did not condemn the Women caught in adultery, but he didn’t just say go and leave her alone to follow her own devices. No! He was emphatic on what he required her to do. Go! And sin no more!

August 3, 2022 Ivan Reply
All republicans are Rino’s till they prove otherwise

August 3, 2022 Steve100 Reply
No. Very badly said.

Christians are to tell their homosexual friends and/or family to repent and believe the Gospel. Just as they’d tell the thief, or adulterer or any sinner (themselves included).

THIS is the essence of Christian charity.

August 3, 2022 Maryanne Reply
Thank you, Ivan. THAT was very well said.

August 3, 2022 Maryanne Reply
Gender, sexual orientation, skin color, ethnicity, etc. are the least interesting and least important aspects of an individual’s character. Identify politics Balkanizes us into groups inherently at conflict with each other. We need to be the party of private property, rule of law, elected representative government, freedom of association, freedom to help those we choose to help, limited compulsory behavior, the constitution. The tent should celebrate similarities not accentuate differences.

August 3, 2022 Dennis Toczewski Reply
Let’s be clear about this! The LBGTQ activists are out to destroy the traditional family, so this good news for me as a Conservative voters. The Log Cabin Republicans have been trying to infiltrate the GOP for a long time. As the article describes, they have made inroads into the GOP and their ultimate purpose is to gain more influence and power so they can change the party platform. Make no mistake, it really does matter. This guys like Grenell, will pretend they are fighting for MAGA and conservative values, when in fact all the care about is advance the LGBTQ+++++ agenda and the ultimate demise of the Traditional family. So let’s stop with the sob stories and fake feelings of love and acceptance.

Just look at what they’ve done to great corporations, like Disney, government entities, like our great military. If that isn’t a wake up call for you, then you along with Trump are pretty Stupid. The Propaganda mills and Gestapo Brigades are working over time to advance that in Corporate America even as I speak, so please. Spare me the false tears.

August 3, 2022 Ivan Reply
Why is there even a Log Cabin Republican group? Any LGBT that wants to be a Republican should just be a Republican. If they are really conservative in some way that will be enough. If not, what is the point of them trying to attach themselves to the R party? Or is it simply to move the party to the left?

https://thecrosssectionrmb.blogspot.com/

August 3, 2022 RMB Reply
God has stated that he judges our hearts, intents and actions. Anyone living to Christian principles should be welcomed.

Murderers, adulterers, active homosexuals, etc. are gravely sinning and not living to Christian principles. Blurring, erasing the distinction between virtue and sin, to the point of glorifying the sin, is precisely what is so dangerous about the cultural phenomenon of so called LGBT movement. This oxymoronic statement is a perfect illustration of irrationality of people blinded by an ideology. They can’t even grasp the difference between persecution and disapproval.

August 3, 2022 Christopher Waz Reply
Well, it may have been better to leave out “an abnormal lifestyle choice”, even though it is; but they’re absolutely right in taking the position that there should not be legal carve-outs for the alphabet community. Frankly if the gay mafia weren’t so intent upon pushing their agenda in everyones’ faces, and onto our children, this would all be moot. And FWIW, I think Ric Grenell should have a statue in his honor.

August 3, 2022 Thucydides Reply
Of course, as Steve Sailer has famously demonstrated, “affordable family formation” is the key to Republican and conservative victory, not to mention Western Civilization, in the long run. But even more immediately, it is important to resist and defeat the *commodification of sex* (and, especially, the *sexualization of children*) to even have a civilization worth preserving. This is bigger than just opposing the LGBTQP agenda and includes outlawing abortion, pornography, prostitution, no-fault divorce, etc., and essentially re-sacralizing the family and relations between men, women, and their children.

August 3, 2022 Sorel McRae Reply
And, if I may add, should any of your well-meaning homosexual ask “But what about *me*?” You could talk about the sin/sinner distinction but you could also just tell him that the struggle to preserve civilization is “not about *you*!”

After a pause, you might add, “Don’t take it personally. It’s not about me either. It’s about civilization.”

August 3, 2022 Sorel McRae Reply
Let’s not forget, that despite the gains that community has made, they won’t be happy until everyone agrees with their agenda. For those that disagree, you will be marked, ostracized and persecuted entrenched forces every sector of our society until you recant your beliefs. The days of friendly and peaceful relationship are gone, because of their radicalized in you Face Agenda.

God forbid you should offend them by speaking the truth, even when the truth means saving lives or preventing a public health crisis. You can mention Monkey Pox, but you dare not say the truth of how it spreading. Even in the midst of all these facts, the disgusting perversion of gay sex orgies continue to put the public at risk. San Fransicko and NY are only the beginnings, if people do not speak the truth.

I say screw the LGBTQ! I’m heterosexual and I’m damn proud of it. I don’t need a dam flag for that sort of pride, nor do I want to see yours.

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August 3, 2022 Ivan Reply
Who one wants to have sex with is between that person, their partner, and God. I have no need to know and frankly don’t want to know.

But telling me I must celebrate something sinful or deny reality and proclaim some dude in a skirt is a “woman” is another thing altogether. Clearly my position is not unique based on the rebellion of the Texas grassroots. We treat people with dignity and respect as all are created in God’s image. However, we don’t pretend sinful behavior is some form of noble experience to assuage other’s guilt just as we wouldn’t praise the married philander or a thief.

Anyone else thinks it’s no coincidence this entire movement defines itself under the banner of PRIDE? Pride is condemned in no uncertain terms in the Bible, over and over. Pride is a ugly level of haughtiness where man thinks he knows better than God. Yet this is the rallying cry of the movement. It’s telling.

Why does this group care what we think provided we treat them with dignity and respect as fellow humans? Yet that is not enough, they insist we not only tolerate their behavior but celebrate it. It comes from a sense of deep insecurity that stirs guilt within them, how dare someone else not approve of their lifestyle! Does any other group behave like this and insist no one disapprove of them? Who cares what others think? Not sure if it’s cause or effect, but clearly their lifestyle does seem to correlate with deep sense of guilt that they try to drown out with angry militancy.

Pray for folks trapped in this, treat them with love, but as Christians we cannot embrace sin. It’s not a difficult dilemma.

August 3, 2022 Jeff C Reply
you can left click with mouse and copy and paste to forward. not elegant but it works. you can also copy and paste the url https://chroniclesmagazine.org/featured/revolt-against-the-rainbow-rinos/ and forward.

August 3, 2022 kw Reply
All I have to say to the Log Cabin Republicans and, while we’re at it, the Lincoln Project wannbe Republicans is this: PRINCIPLE OVER PARTY. We serve God. If you don’t or don’t choose to – there are other places you can go. BYE.

August 3, 2022 KeepTehMemesCooming Reply
This really is not a difficult concept. Elections, politics, voting, education, consumption of resources (that, by definition, are finite), even the Marxist hoax of “climate change” ALL are about ONE THING: the future.

The idea that enabling, including and celebrating IN POLICY those rejecting populating that future, by choice or not, is childish and antithetical TO THAT FUTURE.

Not only would a mature nation not celebrate LGBTQ, it would disenfranchise them, as it would disenfranchise ALL non-parents: those who don’t care enough about the future to populate it have no business deciding policies for that future.

August 4, 2022 Alexander Scipio Reply
Homosexuality is a preferred weapon in Satan’s attack on family, good society and good government. It has to be directly and forthrightly opposed and faced down, on the only truly authoritative grounds — Biblical grounds. There are no short cuts to be found, no compromises to be made, and no half measures will do. True loving means calling out and addressing sin, in self and in others. It’s that simple.

Toward that end, this author wrote the following piece some time back.

GAY PRIDE MEANS HOMO-TYRANNY

The radical homosexual agenda now dominates our society and institutions, including most churches. The goal is to silence all criticism of homosexual perversion; with radical adherents doxing — with intent to destroy – loving critics who would save them. These radicals have succeeded in de-sensitizing people to the obvious unnaturalness and pure filth of sodomite relations. So now, one man putting his penis in another man’s anus no longer elicits the vomitous and righteous disgust it should. Nor does women acting like men, or women committing unnatural acts with one another.

“Born gay” is a liberal lie. No gay gene has been found. Human nature is fallen, and child sexual abuse is the main cause and spreader of homosexuality. This abuse disrupts and derails the child’s normal and natural hetero-psychological development. Instead of being allowed to learn and grow gradually toward natural and proper hetero-pleasure, the boy or girl, during abuse, is forcibly and prematurely introduced to sex, suffers lasting disorientation, and can learn sub-consciously to take pleasure, ever after, in the perverse and unnatural. So it is sheer unscientific folly – and abominable sin – to rationalize as normal and healthy the homosexual’s obvious negative deviation, mis-development and dogged disorder. Remember: the one and only true God, the Triune, promises worse than a millstone necklace for pedophiles, and eternal fiery rain for unrepentant sodomites.

Winston McCuen
South Carolina

August 4, 2022 Winston McCuen Reply
Winston! Excellent post.
There is no compromise on this issue.

August 4, 2022 Ivan Reply
I like Pedro and I generally agree with this column, but I find the term RINO to be tiresome. They are simply Republicans. The Republican party has always been a fraud. It has had good and often conservative minority elements within it, but some people carry around this rather comical view of the party as a bastion of conservatism that has been infiltrated by leftism. That is laughable considering this is the party of the “proposition nation,” the destruction of the original federal republic and the stalwart defender of industrial capitalism, a system that, in the words of Richard Weaver, “…unsettle[s] any establishment and initiate[s] the endless innovation of technological “progress”

August 11, 2022 William Gaddis Reply
A very apt observation, Mr. Gaddis. Professor Weaver was right.

The Republican Party has indeed, at a fundamental level, always been a fraud. It was conceived and born in anti-Constitutional “propositional” tariff-abolitionist-centralist iniquity; and it has never escaped the spiritual shadow of that dark origin.

Today, for example, we hear the more Lincolnite members of the Stupid Party mindlessly and dishonestly conflate 1860 Democrats with 2022 Democrats, who are of course obvious polar opposites as regards both their general world views and their philosophies of American government.

This cheap and ahistorical Lincolnite smear aims of course to discredit 2022 Democrats through guilt by association with slavery, secession and segregation. The intelligent and informed listener, however, recognizes that the mis-association slanders the morally and intellectually superior Democrats of 1860, not the Evil (Marxist) Party of today.

On Hannity (this past Tuesday), the carnal Jew Mark Levin — whom Sean obsequiously and absurdly calls “The Great One” – repeated this brainless smear, the single-most ridiculous and ahistorical propaganda thrust commonly employed by Republicans today. During Levin’s largely empty rant about the Mar-a-Lago raid, a bust of Lincoln peered over his shoulder.

The problematic origin and the persisting fell spirit of Lincoln in the Republican Party is now and has long been one of the greatest impediments preventing Americans from successfully resisting liberalism’s deadly and highly successful Marxist war against America and Americans.

August 11, 2022 Winston McCuen Reply
The Texas state republicans are acting EXACTLY as do the hateful leftists, by excluding an organization that it accepted for 20 years! It shows an astounding lack of vision. We need everyone and like it or not, gays are a large voting block. Its wrong to exclude them. We’re supposed to be the ones who believe in ‘the big tent’ kind of party. This will hurt the party in TX.

August 16, 2022 Patriot As Ship Sinks Reply
So now a dog that lives with two homosexuals has contracted monkey pox. Gee how could that happen? And these people want to govern us.

August 16, 2022 Mike in a Truck Reply
To PATRIOT AS SHIP SINKS:

No.

Obviously, there can be and are just grounds for excluding homosexuals and the like.
By your reasoning, DEMS and pedophiles and bestialists should be allowed in “THE BIG TENT” too.

Homosexuality –like theft and murder and other sins — should be shunned and stigmatized and proscribed in every nation in the hope it will be repented of. Sin should NEVER be rationalized and cordially welcomed into the polity, where it will, by its very nature, seek to corrupt all and tyrannize over any who would expose and oppose it.

For those (ultimately conflicted) homosexuals who want to join a conservative Republican party, not as moles or saboteurs but due to certain actual conservative values they (incongruously) hold, they should not be allowed to do so as openly gay, which is an inherently anti-conservative value.

Indeed, if homosexuals are to join (and be allowed to join) a professedly conservative party, let them not join professing as (a homosexual or any other kind of) sinner..

In actual practice, this “in-the-closet” way of joining would encourage perhaps some of them to re-examine and ultimately repent — by God’s grace — of their homosexual sin. But by allowing homosexuals to join qua homosexual — or as openly, vocally and unrepentantly homosexual — we cripple the purportedly conservative party in its morale and purpose; AND we do its homosexual members wicked disservice by condoning their sin.

August 18, 2022 Winston McCuen Reply
Homosexuals aren’t to be allowed in society, nor transvestites, nor so-called bisexuals, nor any of them. How about we just call them deviants, because that’s exactly what they are. Why do I say this? Why should we reject the deviants from living in American communities? Because homosexuality and all of the other sexual perversions are sin. And if you give sin an inch, it takes a hundred miles. The deviants almost explicitly—in some cases, explicitly—say “I don’t follow the rules. I’m a rebel.” And then, Americans open the door to the house on promise of good behavior. The deviants came to our door, saying, “I don’t follow rules.” The leftists asked, “Well, are you going to follow the rules (such as don’t rape little children)?” But of course they don’t follow the rules. They’re exactly what they say they are: rebels and haters of God.

Everyone’s fine with the deviants until their kids start getting touched*. It has been proven throughout history (just look at the Spartans): destruction and chaos follows wherever the deviants go, just like any other sin.

*Much like many other things the leftists are fine with until it affects them. Money is a prime example. The leftists (especially the rich ones, such as the celebrities, look at Elon Musk) are perfectly fine with socialism, until it starts touching their pockets.

http://beingreasonable.com/

August 20, 2022 Diet Woke Reply
I wanted to reply to a comment but it won’t let me. Inclinations to same sex attraction is objectively disordered and then having homosexual sex is intrinsically disordered. That’s my Catholic religion and I’m following it. Some homosexuals can’t change my mind either. Trump started out against same sex marriage now he’s for it? And Melania his wife must be a Catholic in name only.

December 20, 2022 Janice Farley Reply