It was just a year ago that we published the first “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile of Steve Scheffler, a member of the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition and the 2012 Republican National Committee who is one of the key driving forces behind the GOP’s endless campaign against LGBT rights and same sex marriage. In effect, when Republican presidential campaigns go through Iowa every four years, their road to the nomination goes through him, no detours. Any perceived “moderate” stance on gay rights is a death sentence, and Scheffler is the judge and executioner who carries it out. Scheffler, who once worked on the 1988 presidential campaign of Pat Robertson, publicly admonished John McCain for having the nerve to have an appearance on the Ellen Degeneres Show, warned the legalization of gay marriage in Iowa would make Des Moines “the homosexual capital of the Mid-West”. Scheffler also made it a point to block gay Republican candidate Fred Karger from participating in GOP debates, and with the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, claims there are scientific studies that gay men only live to an average age of 47, that gay conversion therapy works, and that if social conservatives win the culture wars, it will result in an endgame where Jesus returns to Earth.
There isn’t a lot to update on Scheffler this year, who other than an interview with the National Review where he vented about how members of his own party were somehow calling HIM a “RINO- Republican in Name Only”. That’s just scary, that even this intolerant anti-gay crusader could be not conservative enough for GOP voters. Although, it’s easy to appreciate the irony that after he’s spent two decades doing it to other Republicans, that someone would turn his own accusation against him.
Suffice to say, while Scheffler himself has been quieter, he still is a kingmaker among the Republican party, and still is on the GOP Platform Committee, meaning we can look forward to seeing his input at the 2016 RNC, when they call for the halting of the advancement of the rights of the LGBT community , but for the ones that have been recognized by our government the past few years to be taken away.
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CSGOPOTD: Steve Scheffler- 2015 Update
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