Gay Republicans rally behind McCain-Palin ticket

As a gay Republican at his party's 1992 convention, Bob Kabel was sickened listening to Pat Buchanan's infamous "Culture War" speech, a prime-time, fire-and-brimstone tirade against, among other things, the Democrats' "amoral" and "militant" homosexual agenda.

"I remember being so appalled by that speech," said Kabel, chairman of the Washington, D.C., Republican Party Committee and one of about 60 Log Cabin Republicans who gathered for a lunchtime event this afternoon at the Chambers Hotel in downtown Minneapolis. The organization is composed of openly gay and lesbian political conservatives and their supporters. It has about 20,000 members nationwide.

The GOP is a different party today than it was in Buchanan's day, Kabel and other gay Republicans say. After sitting out the 2004 campaign, the Log Cabin Republicans this week enthusiastically announced their endorsement of Sen. John McCain for president.

Gay Republicans rally behind McCain-Palin ticket
MinnPost.com - Minneapolis,MN,USA