Christianists Go Ballistic Over Romney Meeting With Gays

While it is too early to know for certain the precise details of the meeting involved, it does seem clear now that Mitt Romney did participate in a secret meeting with leaders of the leaders the Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) a week ago at a remote Virginia farmhouse.  And apparently whatever Romney, a proven pathological liar said to the self-loathing members of LRC it was enough to dupe them into endorsing Romney.  I continue to believe that any gay who supports today's virulently anti-gay GOP is akin to a black citizen supporting the KKK.   But the fact that the meeting occurred has some of the Christofascists going totally ape shit.  America Blog looks at what is known and the Christianist reaction.  Here are some highlights:

It seems that yesterday’s bombshell from Nation reporter Ben Adler has now been confirmed.
The reason that gay Republican leaders are “confident” that Mitt Romney will support banning workplace discrimination against gay and trans people is because leaders of the lead gay Republican gay group, Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), met secretly with Romney a week ago at a remote Virginia farmhouse.

More from Chris Johnson at the Washington Blade:

A meeting that took place at a Virginia farmhouse between officials from Log Cabin Republicans and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney included a discussion about workplace non-discrimination, but attendees who spoke to the Washington Blade wouldn’t enumerate any commitments made by Romney.

R. Clarke Cooper, Log Cabin’s executive director, said workplace non-discrimination protections were the focus of the meeting, which took place Oct. 17 at Greenwood Farm in Leesburg, Va., which was a precursor the organization’s endorsement of the candidate announced on Tuesday.

“I can say with confidence that the Romney administration would work on desirable outcomes for workplace non-discrimination,” Cooper said. “I’m going to leave it broad like that because I think there’s room for administrative action as well as legislative. I also think it’s probably fair to say that legislation in a form of an ENDA or an ENDA-like legislation is certainly realistic.”

Is Romney believable on his "promise"?  Not if he changes his mind as he does on everything else.  Perhaps the meeting was just more of Romney's "lying for the lord" to try to get himself elected.  What is known is that the Christofascists are none too happy with Romney.  America Blog continues with this:

Here’s the American Family Association’s response to yesterday’s news. Note that they demanded that Romney himself address this issue. Now that we have news that Romney himself secretly met with gay Republicans, he won’t have a choice but to personally try to assuage the religious right that this story isn’t true.

But if he does that, it has to happen publicly, or the religious right minions across the country won’t know that Romney didn’t mean it when he promised the gays the moon. And if he does go public, Log Cabin will look like a fool for believing yet another Romney lie, and Romney risks the 25$%-30% of the gay vote that one might expect him to get, based on past gay GOP turnout.

My money is on the likelihood that Romney was lying and that the folks at LCR have been played for suckers.  If elected, Romney will pretend that the meeting never happened.