Rob Power wrote: Rob) Um, who actually started this "Ron Paul is a homophobic bigot" thread? I think if you go back and check, you'll see that it was not an Outright member. (Rob
Wrong. It was Brian Miller, California Chair/Coordinator for the Outright Libertarians: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lpradicals/message/2142. Rob) It seems like we now have a strawman somebody set up to claim "Outright Libertarians says Ron Paul is a homophobic bigot." We've never done any such thing. (Rob Miller didn't claim he was speaking for the Outrights -- but nobody here said he was. Rob) This is merely yet another attempt by social conservatives to smear the Outright Libertarians organization (Rob Right, because anybody who dares criticize a statement of a member of the Outrights must be a "social conservative" or is "living in a bubble of Republican talk radio". (Are you ever going to retract that latter smear against me, Rob?) In my posting <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LPplatform-discuss/message/3506> that reported Miller's quote to LPplatform-discuss, the only mentions of the Outrights are 1. in a quote of Miller mendaciously suggesting that Anthony Gregory and I claim "expertise" on gay issues (we don't so claim), expertise which Miller says we surely do not have because we are not members of the Outrights; and 2. in a quote of Miller lying by claiming that I "only recently switched over to the Libertarian side of the [same-sex marriage equality] issue in the platform debate after concerted lobbying from Outright's membership". I said "An honorable person would either substantiate or retract this claim, but Miller has never done either for his prior lies about me, and I don't expect him to start now." I was right. The Outrights is one of the best LP organizations, and the ranks of the best LPCA activists are overflowing with Outright members. Brian Miller's serial mendacity is only a tiny smudge on the reputation of this shining organization. The only real question here is why the Outrights are apparently unwilling or unable to convince him to cease and desist. The answer apparently lies in the above spinal reflex to label as "social conservatives" anyone who dares speak truth to Outright power.
