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Joy Silver| Special to The Desert Sun

Charles T. Moran, president of Log Cabin Republicans, ended his recent column in The Desert Sun with the line: Our members are conservatives and will keep fighting Democrats however we can. The Log Cabin Republicans website insists they are taking a stand against cancel culture, social shaming, and slander because truth is on their side. They need to examine what passes for truth.

Attention: Log Cabin Republicans, you have already been canceled by being shut out of the Texas Republican convention. You have been socially shamed by having your lifestyle choice deemed abnormal. You have been slandered by being called child groomers and pedophiles.

Log Cabin Republicans must come to terms with being in an abusive relationship. An abusive relationship is defined by one party exerting power and control over the other in a negative way.

Log Cabin Republicans have bonded with their abusers. Emotional bonding with abusers is a familiar story, known as the Stockholm Syndrome. Some characteristics are:

Consider the evidence: Justice Clarence Thomas concurring opinion to the ruling overturning Roe v. Wade is as follows: In future cases, we should reconsider all of this courts substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. The decisions Lawrence v. Texas (same-sex intimacy) and Obergefell v. Hodges (same-sex marriage) are about LGBT people. Interestingly, Thomas does not include the Loving v. Virginia decision (marrying across racial lines) though it relies on the same 14th Amendment sections.

Justice Samuel Alito argued that any rights that are unenumerated in the U.S. Constitution cant be recognized as a fundamental right unless they are deeply rooted in this nations history and tradition. That will always leave out women, LGBTQ people, and those who are not straight, white men. Griswold v. Connecticut (contraceptive use) Skinner v. Oklahoma (ending forced sterilization) are also on the block, as they are based on the same rationale for ending Roe.

Moran says that Texas Republicans dont have to change their values to let us in. We are already here. The Texas party values he claims to share have been activated by Christian white nationalism, and many of its adherents call for legislation, criminalization, even violence, against LGBT people. As the Texas GOP goes, so goes the national party.

Democrats dont always agree with one another, but we will continue to stand up for LGBT peoples right to live, to engage in intimacy, to marry, and to be safe from violence. Log Cabin Republicans, I urge you to join us before its too late.

Joy Silver of Palm Springs is vice president of the Democratic Women of the Desert. Email her atdwofthedesert@gmail.com.

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