What is the size of the Log Cabin Republicans?
Schmidt: We have about 20,000 nationally with about 10 percent here in California. Los Angeles is one of the first and largest chapters. LAI: Does Log Cabin take positions on different issues? Schmidt: When they take positions, they are going to be on issues that we feel are important to gays and lesbians and we’ll make that known. The biggest issue facing gays and lesbians right now is defeating Proposition 8, whether they’re in California, Texas or Wisconsin, that’s their right to marry. Schmidt went on to say that California Log Cabin activists are “out there talking to Republican women” to defeat Prop 8. GOP Platform on Defending Marriage Log Cabin’s pro-same-sex-“marriage” activism is at war with the Republican Party Platform, which states, in part (emphasis added): Preserving Traditional Marriage Because our children’s future is best preserved within the traditional understanding of marriage, we call for a constitutional amendment that fully protects marriage as a union of a man
