Joe.My.God. LGBT News
The San Antonio News-Express reports:
The chairman of the Log Cabin Republicans of Texas, a group of gay Texas GOP members, resigned from his post Thursday. Michael Cargill’s resignation as LCR’s state leader comes after the state party ratified a new platform calling homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” at its Houston convention last week.
“These are just crazy people,” Michael Cargill told KXAN on Sunday. “It’s a small minority of people that are being un-Christian-like and spewing this hateful language.” LCR Texas Secretary and Austin Vice President David Garza and President of LCR San Antonio Mimi Planas also resigned.
San Antonio’s NBC News affiliate reports:
Cargill blamed a “path of divisiveness, lack of respect” along with “bully tactics, lack of cohesion and unwillingness to work with all chapter and state LCR leaders in the organization.”
“I will continue to be President of LCR Austin, where we have a great working relationship with the GOP leadership at the Texas Capitol,” Cargill wrote in his resignation letter.
“I see DC and California LCR members inexplicably interceding in Texas affairs and trying to pointlessly bully the Texas GOP, which has done nothing but pushed the black & brown leadership away,” he said in a statement, when asked why he decided to step down.
Cargill owns a gun shop.
The acting chairman of the Log Cabin Republicans of Texas resigned days after telling KXAN the state’s GOP convention was attended by a bunch of “crazy people.” https://t.co/x9vyp3bHSA
— KXAN News (@KXAN_News) June 23, 2022