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May 9, 2003 - LANCASTER, PA: The National Chairman of the Constitution Party added his voice to the growing chorus of conservative leaders who are denouncing the Republican Party for appeasing the radical homosexual lobby.

James N. Clymer, commended conservative leaders "with the courage to speak out on this issue" and invites them to follow through on their threat to bolt from the GOP. "They are all welcome in the Constitution Party where the principles we proclaim are the one’s we live by," he said today.

In recent days Ken Connor, Gary Bauer, James Dobson and Phyllis Schlafly, among others, have protested the Republican leadership’s general unwillingness to defend Senator Santorum’s remarks supportive of Texas’s law against sodomy, leaving the Pennsylvania senator to fend for himself in the face of withering attacks by leftist media and ideologues. These conservatives are also greatly alarmed by the secret meeting Marc Racicot, Republican National Chairman, held with the Human Rights Campaign, the radical homosexual activist group. At the meeting Racicot spoke of "tolerance" and "inclusiveness" and voiced no opposition to the group’s agenda for homosexual marriage, adoption rights and civil rights protection.

However, Clymer objects to the portrayal of these anti-family trends in the GOP establishment as some kind of new development. "On the contrary" he asserted, "the Republican sellout of traditional conservatives to the homosexual lobby is a fact of long standing."

He noted the following as evidence that the GOP had adopted a deliberate policy of embracing the gay agenda.

• In 2000 Candidate Bush tried to rid the GOP platform of planks against homosexual marriage, homosexuals in the military, and civil rights protection for homosexuals.
• President Bush kept in place a 1998 Clinton executive order prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in the Federal workforce and had the military stop expelling homosexuals after the war on terror began.
• The GOP Congress, with White House support, passed legislation extending family health benefits to Washington, D.C. employee’s "partners" and also to grant adoption rights to D.C. homosexual couples.
• President Bush appointed openly homosexual Scott Evertz to head the Office of National AIDS Policy.
• President Bush appointed openly homosexual Michael Guest to be Ambassador to Romania. At Ambassador Guest’s swearing-in ceremony Secretary of State Colin Powell formally recognized Powell’s "partner". Tax dollars now pay for travel and housing of all homosexual "partners" of American diplomats.
• There has been an increase in the funding of homosexual propaganda campaigns in the guise of tolerance and health education programs.
• President Bush nominated AIDS-stricken Christian activist Jerry Thacker to the Presidential Advisory Commission on HIV and AIDS. Mr. Thacker and his daughter got AIDS from his wife who got it from a blood transfusion. On hearing that Mr. Thacker had referred to AIDS as a "gay plague" the White House chastised him for his views and Mr. Thacker withdrew his name from consideration.

Clymer added that "the record of the Republican elites’ sympathy for the radical homosexual agenda is too long and consistent to be anything but intentional and systematic."

"Conservatives of conscience can no longer empower that elite," Clymer said, "Instead of staying home on Election Day they can support the Constitution Party and its 100% pro-life, pro-family, pro-sovereignty, pro-second amendment philosophy."

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