John Andrews, director of the Western Conservative Summit, speaks at the 2013 summit in Denver. (Denver Post file)
Re: “Western Conservative Summit disinvites GOP gay group,” April 16 news story.
The statements in the article about the Colorado Log Cabin Republicans, a gay organization, being disinvited from the Western Conservative Summit were quite revealing.
John Andrews, the summitap chairman and tireless opponent of anything 21st century, said Log Cabin Republicans “advocate contrary to our agenda and our core beliefs.” Log Cabin Republican Michael Carr stated that his political party “wants us in the closet.” Both remarks are completely correct and honest.
However, Jon Caldara, president of the conservative Independence Institute, spoke disingenuously when he said, “There’s a perception that [Republicans are] not friendly to alternative lifestyles.” The perception exists, Mr. Caldara, precisely because the contemporary GOP is not friendly to people with lifestyles that do not comport with its narrowly conceived, conservative ideology.
Those lifestyles, by the way, are not “alternative.” They are real, authentic and, unlike Caldara’s statement, completely honest.
Michael Patrick Eltrich,Denver
This letter was published in the April 18 edition.
