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Log Cabin Republicans Can't Decide Whether To Endorse Donald Trump Or Not

Hard choices.

The Log Cabin Republicans can't make up their mind when it comes to endorsing Donald Trump for President.

LCR president Gregory Angelo revealed to The Washington Blade that he was unsure if his group would back Trump.

“Any inclinations I have right now would be pure conjecture at this point,” Angelo told the Blade. “I clearly have members around the country sharing their thoughts and opinions with me as I’ve traveled around on behalf of Log Cabin Republicans, especially over the course of the last three months, but that’s all just anecdotal at this point.”

The LCR's board will meet in September to decide whether to endorse the candidate or not. The board's meeting will be closed to the public.

“The precedent in the past has always been Log Cabin Republicans gets an audience with our nominee,” said Angelo. “That has been the case, I believe, every presidential election cycle since Log Cabin national headquarters was founded in 1992.” The LCR has been trying to schedule a meeting with Trump since November 2015 to no avail.

So could Log Cabin Republicans actually endorse Hillary Clinton?

“We won’t do that because we can’t do that,” Angelo explained to the Blade. “Per our bylaws, we can only endorse or withhold an endorsement for Republican candidate for office, so the only decision this board will be making is to endorse Donald Trump or to withhold our endorsement from Donald Trump.”

If the group decides not to endorse Trump this would not be the first time the LCR has withheld their backing of a Republican presidential candidate. In 2004 the organization declined to endorse then-President W. Bush for re-election after he supported the constitutional amendment that would have made same-sex marriage illegal in the U.S.

“There is no good and decent American, gay or straight, who should support Donald Trump for president,” said Jimmy LaSalvia, a former gay Republican who has since left the party and is now supporting Clinton.

“He is unfit to serve in that office. In our two-party system, where being a team player is often the priority, too many let partisanship cloud their judgement. I hope that Log Cabin’s board will remove their ‘partisan glasses’ and take an objective look at Donald Trump. If they do that, I just can’t see how they can endorse him.”

Watch Raymond Braun interview Angelo and other gay Republicans at the Republican National Convention in the video below:

h/t: The Washington Blade

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