Marco Roberts is the new chairman of Log Cabin Republicans of Texas.
The board of Log Cabin Republicans of Texas has announced the election of officers for the 2020-2022 term.
The new board members and officers are Chairman Marco A. Roberts, Vice Chairman Michael Cargill, Secretary Alan Goodrich, Treasurer Mike Alberts and board members (listed in order of seniority) Michael Baker, Les Read, Larry Thrash and Lynn Carter.
In an email announcing the new officers and board members, LCR of Texas officials said that “opposition to our values and our mission is not ceasing or resting, and is in fact intensifying its opposition in response to our growing strength and effectiveness,” and that that opposition “comes from opposite extremes of the political spectrum” which have vastly different ideologies but “share a common intolerance and hostility to the freedom of thought and expression of anyone else but their own.”
Because of that, and despite uncertainties due to ongoing the COVID-19 epidemic, LCR-Texas “will be active and very much present at the upcoming Texas GOP state convention being held in Houston in July, and into 2021 at the state capitol in Austin.”
The email continued, “Whether facing the theocratic extreme right, or the Social Justice Warrior ‘LGBT’, The Log Cabin Republicans of Texas will be strong, will stand tall, and with our allies and friends across the state and within the Republican Party, will fight for the things in which we and all freedom-loving Texans believe: The liberty and equality due under our U.S. and Texas constitutions to every citizen of our great state.”
“If we really believe (and we should) that every citizen is endowed by their creator with the right to pursue happiness, shouldn’t this include the right to marriage?”
Marriage, unlike happiness, is a legal and religious artificial creation. Humans that invented it can decide what it’s for and/or even what it means. As it is, the decision has been made through our constitutional process that it should be open to same-sex couples – but still not to groups, or within close blood relatives, etc. In the end, we might decide that marriage is no longer about assigning parental responsibility or romantic pairing, but just to have two people proclaim their decision to bind each other legally, for financial, medical, or primary care reasons. Maybe straight roommates, brothers and sisters, a guy and his aunt, or his friend, can ‘marry’ just to take care of each other because it works form them and have no other good options, and it will no longer have anything to do with what everyone is arguing about. In any case, same-sex marriage is already legal now, so what gives?