"He is so Log Cabin Republican material."

[BlueJazz]

I was on a jury yesterday and that was the alerted post. To me it was a big ????????

From the jury results, I assume it's fairly derogatory. My question is Why and what's the correlation between those words and being gay? I thought I had heard just about everything but apparently not..

[JaneyVee]

1. Log Cabin Republicans are the gay wing of GOP. All 6 of them.

[Agschmid]

2. To me...

It either an accusation that someone is gay, and that being gay is somehow a negative (what's so wrong with that?)

Or an attempt to "out" someone if they aren't out?

I don't have a ton of context but I can see how it could be offensive to the LGBTIA community here.

[Bohunk68]

3. As a long standing member of that community,

I can see you obviously don't get it. Here's some more help. To a gay person, a Log Cabin Republican is the type of person who is a Rethuglican while all the Rethuglicans hate them and revile them, while at the same time taking their hapless contributions. It's a hate yourself postition.

[Agschmid]

4. I understand exactly what a Log Cabin Republican is...

As a long standing member of the LGBTQIA community, I see self loathing and hate quite often in our communities younger members and I work with people to help them through it rather than mock them.

[BlueJazz]

5. Aw..so it's a combination of feelings. I assumed it was referring to Abe Lincoln ?

Thanks much !

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Log Cabin Republicans is the nation's largest organization representing gay conservatives

says Wiki.

The post might have been alerted on for calling someone out.
Or for calling a Dem a Republican.
Depends on the context of the post.

[BlueJazz]

7. Boy..the things you learn on DU.

I was thinking (at the time), what's wrong with calling someone a personality like Abe Lincoln ?

[olddots]

8. humor is partially based on conflict

and humans have conflicts , the post was probably trying to be edgy or uncomfortable ?????