{"id":41875,"date":"2016-07-26T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T22:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/young-gay-republican-explains-why-hes-okay-with-gops-homophobic-platform-watch\/"},"modified":"2016-07-26T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T22:21:11","slug":"young-gay-republican-explains-why-hes-okay-with-gops-homophobic-platform-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/young-gay-republican-explains-why-hes-okay-with-gops-homophobic-platform-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Gay Republican Explains Why He\u2019s Okay with GOP\u2019s Homophobic Platform: WATCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Young Gay Republican Explains Why He\u2019s Okay with GOP\u2019s Homophobic Platform: WATCH<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gopgay.jpg?resize=600%2C534\" alt=\"gopgay\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gopgay.jpg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gopgay.jpg?resize=300%2C267 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>After the GOP stunned the political world with&nbsp;its&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/07\/2016-gop-platform\/\">most anti-LGBT platform in the party&rsquo;s 162-year history<\/a>&nbsp;with&nbsp;provisions supporting <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> conversion therapy, endorsing anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> bathroom bills, and even&nbsp;denying marriage rights for LGBT <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couples<\/a>, it became noticeably harder for <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Republicans to stand by their party.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Hoff, the first openly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Republican on the party&rsquo;s platform committee&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4405261\/gay-republicans-convention-rachel-hoff-platform\/\">considered leaving the Republican Party for the first time in her life.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.logcabin.org\/\">Log Cabin Republicans&rsquo; president<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.logcabin.org\/\">Gregory T. Angelo<\/a>&nbsp;couldn&rsquo;t hide his disappointment and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/07\/2016-gop-platform\/\"> wrote on a fundraising email<\/a>:&nbsp;&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no way to sugar-coat this: I&rsquo;m mad as hell &mdash; and I know you are, too.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But that didn&rsquo;t stop Colton L. Buckley, a young <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Republican from Texas, from showing his love and support for a party which doesn&rsquo;t exactly love and support him the same way.<\/p>\n<p>In full Texan gear, complete with a cowboy hat, a Texas pin and a red bow tie, Buckley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/video\/video\/2016\/07\/a_gay_republican_delegate_from_texas_explains_why_the_gop_is_better_for.html\">explained to <em>Slate<\/em><\/a> why he&rsquo;s still a GOP supporter: &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather deal with a Republican who&rsquo;ll say &lsquo;I don&rsquo;t necessarily agree with you,&rsquo; than deal with someone who aligns themselves with Hillary Clinton and the Democrats,&rdquo; he said adding that &ldquo;the Clinton Foundation has taken tens of millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia nations, [<em>sic<\/em>] where if I <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">live<\/a> there as a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a>, I&rsquo;d be publicly executed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Buckley is a &ldquo;practicing Baptist&rdquo; who is &ldquo;found in church every Sunday morning.&rdquo; He came out of the closet two days after the Orlando tragedy&nbsp;and said that he got &ldquo;lots of support from federal, state and local officials, party activists, etc.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He feels embraced by the party &ldquo;for the most part,&rdquo; except for that &ldquo;slim, quarter-page of the platform,&rdquo; referring to what <em>The New York Times<\/em> called the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/19\/opinion\/the-most-extreme-republican-platform-in-memory.html\">most extreme Republican platform in memory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the small detail in the platform that states that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/19\/us\/politics\/republican-party-issues.html\">&ldquo;our laws and our government&rsquo;s regulations should recognize marriage as the union of one man and one woman,&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;doesn&rsquo;t bother Buckley too much.&nbsp;The self described &ldquo;fiscally conservative and socially awesome&rdquo; young Republican is not a big fan of equality, anyway. &ldquo;I may be one of the most conservative <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Republicans here because of the fact that I don&rsquo;t believe in same-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> marriage,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Marriage is a religious term between a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> and a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">woman<\/a>,&rdquo; &nbsp;he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">video<\/a> below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/07\/gay-republican\/\">Young Gay Republican Explains Why He&rsquo;s Okay with GOP&rsquo;s Homophobic Platform: WATCH<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=su2IONDP2Z0:nedlEb0selk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=su2IONDP2Z0:nedlEb0selk:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=su2IONDP2Z0:nedlEb0selk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=su2IONDP2Z0:nedlEb0selk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=su2IONDP2Z0:nedlEb0selk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=su2IONDP2Z0:nedlEb0selk:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=su2IONDP2Z0:nedlEb0selk:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/su2IONDP2Z0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/su2IONDP2Z0\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/su2IONDP2Z0\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Gay Republican Explains Why He\u2019s Okay with GOP\u2019s Homophobic Platform: WATCH After the GOP stunned the political world with&nbsp;its&nbsp;most anti-LGBT platform in the party&rsquo;s 162-year history&nbsp;with&nbsp;provisions supporting <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> conversion therapy, endorsing anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> bathroom bills, and even&nbsp;denying marriage rights for LGBT <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">couples<\/a>, it became noticeably harder for <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> Republicans to stand by their party. 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