Annual LCR Christmas Party

It’s time for our annual LCR & friends Christmas Party – and you’re invited. It will be at the home of James Humphreys and Ted Berger in Ogden, Friday night, December 9th. Its a potluck affair so dust off your cookbooks and make up something special to share. Please RSVP to Frederick Luchycky and let us know if you are bringing a desert, main dish, or an appetizer. And don’t forget to BYOB.

Where

Home of James & Ted – in Ogden, 2849 Polk Avenue, Ogden, UT

December 9, 2011 – 7:00pm

Our meetings are held the second Monday of every month at Mestizos North Temple and 600 West at 7:00 pm.

Please join us.

Important!!! Tickets have been reduced to $25.00 per person!!!

 

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From Yahoo! News – HELENA, Mont. – The president of a Montana tea party group has been kicked out of the organization for an exchange on his Facebook page that appeared to condone violence against homosexuals.

The Big Sky Tea Party Association’s board of directors voted Sunday to remove Tim Ravndal from the group after members learned of the online conversation in July that began with a comment about an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit over rights for same-sex couples.

Ravndal, who was elected to the position in August, apologized over the weekend after being contacted by The Great Falls Tribune, which first reported the story. That didn’t halt the board’s decision.

“We continually make it known that we will not tolerate bigoted dialogue, behavior or messages at our functions, our meetings or within our ranks,” chairman Jim Walker said in a statement. “If a person demonstrates bigotry relative to sex, ethnicity, etc., they are not welcome in our organization. The Tea Party movement is about standing up for individual freedom for everyone.”

The Utah Log Cabin Republicans would like to applaud The Big Sky Tea Party Association, first of all for it’s policy regarding bigotry relative to sex, ethnicity, etc. and more importantly for sticking to their guns and upholding that policy. Read More…

I thought you might find this interesting and pretty darn discriminatory.  So congress is discussing the repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy for the military.  So I called The House of Representatives, and asked to speak with Jason Chaffetz.  They put me through to an assistant.  Here are the notes from my conversation with him after I requested that Rep. Chaffetz vote to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

Rep. Chaffetz office at 3:00pm on May 26th.

He said that Rep. Chaffetz does not support the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, because he feels that it protects both those who are gay and those who are not in the military. He asked under what circumstances would there be a need for repealing the law.  I told him so that people would be able to go where they want, date who they want, and talk about their life just like everybody else without the fear of being fired.  He asked where would you want to go.  I said the bar, specifically a gay bar in off time.  Or to a highly social function with a gay partner.  He said the interpretation of whether that violated the rule would be up to those in charge in that area.  I asked how anybody would know what those in charge considered a violation of the law. He said you could ask them. He then said that the military isn’t about sexuality and sexuality shouldn’t be discussed in the military, and that sexual things are inappropriate to be discussed in most businesses. I said that I believe there is a difference between sex acts and sexuality, and that in any business discussing sex acts would be considered harassment. However, what I’m talking about is saying things that are non-sexual, but would indicate your preference in the sex of your partner.  I then asked why we shouldn’t be able to discuss what we did in our off time with our partner or significant other, so long as it wasn’t sexual in nature.  I then said, if you mentioned your partner’s name or if they asked what your partner’s name was it may be very obvious that this is a person of the same sex.  Such as if you told them that your partner’s name is Jason.  He said that those were things that gay people should probably stay away from talking about to others in the military.  I told him that this didn’t seem fair that heterosexuals should be able to talk about their everyday nonsexual lives, but gay people shouldn’t do this.  He said that it was to protect them and others in the military, and to ensure that heterosexuals in the military weren’t demoralized.  I asked if there weren’t a large number of things that could demoralize people in the military that weren’t legislated such as this.  He said there probably were, but this one the congress decided to legislate.  I told him that’s why I’m calling to have them change this.  He said that Rep. Chaffetz doesn’t want to change it because he feels it protects people in the military from being demoralized.  I asked him to please ask Rep. Chaffetz to please reconsider his position on this, because I do not think it’s fair or morally right to have gay people be forced to follow a code of conduct that others don’t have to follow.  He said he would pass my comments along to him.

Wow.  I’m sure glad that they are protecting us from…….. something…… er…. making sure that non-gays feel comfortable…. Or …. Something.  I guess that makes it all worth it to have gays protect the country and just make sure that they don’t talk about anything too personal with anybody.  Because risking your life is just a really casual thing?  Just like making sure that you have to hide and live in fear of doing anything or talking with somebody because you could be fired.  Hopefully the firing for talking about your family and life at home will occur before you are killed in the course of battle.

Nice..

- JB- Salt Lake City

This is a special invitation to all Log Cabin members, friends, and allies. Utah LCR along with the College Republicans on the U of U campus are hosting a special Senate Candidate Town Hall meeting this Wednesday, April 21st. We have already confirmed that six of the eight candidates will be there to answer questions and share their ideas with Republican State Delegates. We have 300 seats to fill and expect around 200 state delegates so there is plenty of room for all of you and your partners, friends, and guests to join with us.

If you are a state delegate it is critically important for you to attend as the candidates really want to meet each of you and find out where you stand on the issues affecting all of us every day, both GLBT issues and all issues in general. Even if you’re not a state delegate we still need you there to show these candidates who their constituents are, and how many of us that support GLBT issues will be voting in November.

The meeting will start at 7:00pm in the Saltair room in the Olpin Student Union Building. This room is in the northwest corner on the main floor past the main ballroom. Just follow the signs or ask at the main reception desk for directions. We have put together a very informative program with questions each candidate will need to respond to. After each group of questions all of you will be able to vote on weather the candidate did answer the question or not. This way the candidates will know immediately weather they answered or just skirted the issue right then, and that all the state delegate in attendance will know, too.

We have also invited all of the media and they need to see which candidates can actually answer these questions and where they really stand. Not all of our questions are GLBT related, but they are all relevant to what is happening in our daily lives such as health care, budget deficits, immigration, and more. If you really want to know where these Senate candidates stand then BE THERE! If there is a specific questions that you really want an answer to, please reply to this email with the question so we can get it included if possible.

Our next monthly meeting will be held Tuesday, April 6^th at 7:00pm in The Salt Lake City Library in the lower level.

We would like every state delegate that can attend to be there to discuss our position on issues that we want to ask the candidates.  We will be putting together a list of questions for our town hall meeting later in April – TBA.

The Log Cabin Republicans regular monthly meeting is scheduled for:

Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Time: 7:00PM
Where: Salt Lake City Public Library on Library Square (400 South & 200 East)
Room: Conference Room D Lower Level

The main activity for this meeting is to review how the reception went, and to plan for a Christmas party/social. We will also be discussing how things are progressing on the two bills we will be pushing, as well as how best to work with the legislature during the session in January. We also need to coordinate our delegate program so it is successful.  Lots to discuss.

We’ll see you all there!

PRESS RELEASE

Saturday, November 14, 2009

The Utah Log Cabin Republicans are pleased to announce that Governor and Mrs. Herbert have invited our group to the Governor’s mansion for an informal reception to allow the Governor and First Lady the opportunity to get to know the leaders of the Utah LCR organization as well as many of the leaders within the LGBT community. This will be the second time that Utah LCR has been invited to the mansion. Former Governor Jon Huntsman also hosted an informal reception for Utah LCR in July, 2008. The reception will be held Monday evening, November 16, 2009 at 7:00pm.

Utah Log Cabin Republicans is the local chapter of the National Log Cabin Republicans representing the conservative members of Utah’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community. The Log Cabin Republicans believe in limited government, fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and support the basic fundamental principles of the Republican party. There are over 20,000 members of Log Cabin nationwide, with offices in Washington, D.C. and chapters throughout the U.S.

More information can be found on the national website: www.logcabin.org and on the Utah LCR website: www.logcabinutah.org or by contacting Melvin Nimer – President, Utah LCR at 801-613-8359 or ut@logcabin.org.

Hi all,
James here again. As we prepare for the 2010 election I look around the Republican table for real national leaders.

So far our team of national leader is the same tired and losing team we have had for the last 4 years. Many are getting to be too old and the new “stars” have been troubled, by affairs and corruption.

Many of these people, Pallin, Romney, Sanford, Ensign believe in many conservative values, but let us remember that failing to live up to conservative principle’s is what got our collective asses kicked.

We failed to be fiscally conservative. We failed to lessen government in our lives. We failed to ensure the government was a neutral observer in our social lives.

The Republican revolution of 1994 lead by Newt was about Less government, and less government interference and therefore less spending, more state control and smaller government for less taxes. It was this class that balanced the budged with a democrat in the White House.

In 2000 Karl Rove took over. He used two presidential elections to push a social based agenda to give the Republicans a stronger majority. We ignored all other “true” conservative values. The result; two wars, a bloated government, that was more invasive, massive debt build up and serious social meddling. The American public gave us the benefit of the doubt in 04, but was fed up by 06. We failed to see the writing on the wall and continued down our, destructive social agenda above all else, path. We were completely trashed in 08.

The reaction to this defeat should be a return to core Republican values. We have a great opportunity, as the Democrats, drunk with power, keep screwing up, to ensure we balance the odds. Most of the time it take 2 election cycles to get back into balance. We have a unique opportunity to become more balanced in 2010 and so far we are blowing it!

We lost because we adopted the wrong strategy. Let us not make that same mistake twice. The principle of limited government interference does not blend well with demands from the left and right for major government interference on only a few issues, weather it is stem cell research or health care. Both are massive invasions of personal issues by the federal government.

And this kind of federal meddling is what make most Americans frustrated with government.

Everyone deserve a seat at the table and everyone’s opinions matter. We must stop ignoring those with somewhat different opinions in our party if we are to remain relevant in the next 100 years. I personally do not want to wait for Democrats to screw up to have more say in the federal government.

If they had played their cards right, they could have sidelined our party for a very long time after the complete failure for us to live up to our own values.

The time has come to get together and start listening to each other; to stop dictating to the majority. The jockeying for position among the most right wing of our party is such a mistake. The record speaks for itself on these issues. Those that only hold up their social record, fail! We have to have real leadership and come up with real alternatives to what is being done in Washington. We must stop being the party of “no” and become the party of ideas.

After failing to live up to our own standards it will take a while for the majority of Americans to trust us again. We must work extra hard and hope the Democrats keep tackling too much for us to regain the public trust.

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