{"id":1619,"date":"2004-04-20T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1619.html"},"modified":"2004-04-20T10:31:05","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T15:31:05","slug":"cant-gay-and-moonie-republicans-just-get-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/cant-gay-and-moonie-republicans-just-get-along\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t gay and Moonie Republicans just get along?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few<\/a> friends<\/a> have already commented on this one<\/a>, but it’s so amusing, I can’t resist.<\/p>\n

About a week ago, Republican Party leaders in Jefferson County, Kentucky, gathered to choose delegates to the Republican National Convention. It didn’t go well.<\/p>\n

As the Louisville Courier-Journal explained<\/a>, two Jefferson County GOP activists — John Lawlor and Peter Hayes — were competing for leadership posts. Things got a little heated, the two had “words,” and now one of them has sworn out a warrant against the other, charging him with assault.<\/p>\n

Lawlor is a so-called ex-gay. That is, he acknowledges that he was “gay at one time,” but insists that he no longer is. Hayes, meanwhile, is a member of Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. Apparently, each knew how to push each other’s buttons.
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Lawlor said Hayes approached him and asked whether he was having a sexual relationship with another male Republican. “He knew my history and he was trying to provoke me,” Lawlor said. <\/p>\n

Lawlor said he “was gay at one time and he (Hayes) knew that.” Lawlor said he is no longer gay. <\/p>\n

Hayes said he merely asked why Lawlor had opposed Hayes as a delegate and sided with another faction of the Republican Party. He said he made no sexual references. <\/p>\n

Lawlor said the two then began talking about Hayes’ religion. <\/p>\n

Hayes belongs to the Unification Church, founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
\nBoth men said Lawlor then called Hayes a “Moonie.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Things, apparently, got a little physical.<\/p>\n

Lawlor said that is when Hayes “bopped me” in his left arm. It caused a bruise and left his arm sore for several days, Lawlor said. <\/p>\n

Hayes, however, said he only tried to grab Lawlor’s arm to get his attention. <\/p>\n

Hayes said: “I asked him how come you didn’t do the right thing, and he said, `It’s because you’re a Moonie and I don’t want to work with you.’ Then, he started saying, ‘Moonie, Moonie, Moonie, Moonie, Moonie.'” <\/p>\n

Lawlor recalled saying only “Moonie, Moonie, Moonie.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If only the ex-gay and Moonie factions of the Republican Party could resolve their differences…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few friends have already commented on this one, but it’s so amusing, I can’t resist. About a week ago, Republican Party leaders in Jefferson County, Kentucky, gathered to choose delegates to the Republican National Convention. It didn’t go well. As the Louisville Courier-Journal explained, two Jefferson County GOP activists — John Lawlor and Peter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}