Dan Savage Calls Republican Group GOProud 'A Little Gay Window Dressing'
Dan Savage, the sex advice columnist who founded the It Gets Better Project, believes gay Republican group GOProud is being used to attract moderates
and independents to the fold, but the party remains “rabidly anti-gay to its
core.”
In a Wednesday segment titled Pride and Prejudice on MSNBC's Countdown, Savage disagreed that the Republican Party is easing up on its anti-gay
agenda.
Guest host Sam Seder offered Ann Coulter's appearance at GOProud's
September gathering of gay conservatives, Homocon, as evidence of an increasingly gay-friendly GOP.
“Ann Coulter was invited by GOProud to their event where she said
intensely bigoted things,” Savage said. “She's against marriage equality.
GOProud describes marriage equality – gay marriage rights – as a state's
rights issue, which is what interracial marriage once was.”
But Savage denied the group offered much cover for the Republican Party.
“GOProud isn't a pro-gay rights organization, they're an organization
of gay quislings and useful idiots that help to window-dress the
Republican Party, which is really still rabidly anti-gay to its core.
It's a little window dressing, a little gay window dressing, that allows
them to appeal to moderates, perhaps, and independents as being
less bigoted than the Republican Party in its current iteration actually is,
” he said.
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