{"id":3298,"date":"2026-08-28T10:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2026-08-28T10:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:44:45","slug":"log-cabin-republicans-retreat-doesnt-make-them-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3298","title":{"rendered":"Log Cabin Republicans&#039; Retreat Doesn&#039;t Make Them Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" fifu-lazy=\"1\" fifu-data-sizes=\"auto\" fifu-data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=75&resize=75&ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=100&resize=100&ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=150&resize=150&ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=240&resize=240&ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=320&resize=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=500&resize=500&ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=640&resize=640&ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=800&resize=800&ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=1024&resize=1024&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=1280&resize=1280&ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1&w=1600&resize=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" fifu-data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/725324_1_.jpeg?ssl=1\" \/><br \/>Log Cabin Republicans announced this week that it is dropping the &quot;T&quot; from LGBT and will now describe itself as an &quot;LGB advocacy organization.&quot; President Ross Hemminger wrote that the shift returns the group to its original mission, writing that it is acting &quot;as our founders envisioned and as our moral center calls us to be.&quot; He described the move as a &quot;recommitment to the disciplined advocacy that has gotten us this far,&quot; arguing that the organization was &quot;founded on principle&quot; and that &quot;conservative values, properly applied, protect the liberty of every American.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Log Cabin Republicans announced this week that it is dropping the &quot;T&quot; from LGBT and will now describe itself as an &quot;LGB advocacy organization.&quot; President Ross Hemminger wrote that the shift returns the group to its original mission, writing that it is acting &quot;as our founders envisioned and as our moral center calls us to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5363,3263,5366,5362,5364,5365],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-cabin","tag-conservative","tag-doesn039t","tag-log","tag-republicans039","tag-retreat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}