Gay rights activist Dan Savage has
called gay GOP group GOProud's endorsement of Mitt Romney for
president “pathetic.”
The conservative group endorsed Romney
in a news release on Wednesday.
“Most gay Americans – like their
straight counterparts – are not better off than they were four
years ago,” GOProud Executive Director Jimmy LaSalvia said in
making the announcement. “The truth is that gay people are living
in the disastrous failed Obama economy too.”
LaSalvia said that two members of its
board voted against endorsing the Republican candidate and added that
the group opposes Romney's support of a federal amendment defining
marriage as a heterosexual union.
Savage, the editor of Seattle
alternative The Stranger and co-creator of the It Gets Better
Project, tweeted to his nearly 84,000 followers: “The GOP's house
faggots grab their ankles, right on cue … pathetic.”
GOProud co-founder Christopher Barron
responded in a
blog post: “Apparently, faggot is an entirely appropriate slur
as long as Dan Savage is slinging it and gay people who you don't
agree with are on the receiving end. It gets better my ass.”