Posted on 02/20/2010 1:07:12 PM PST by onyx
Several prominent social conservatives have bailed out of this year's CPAC convention because of the presence of a group of gay Republicans.
The three-day convention got started Thursday at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC and will feature such anti-gay figures as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, media personality Ann Coulter, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. Conservative media personality Glenn Beck is the event's keynote speaker.
Liberty University Law School, the Christian-based university founded by the late Jerry Falwell, backed out of the event after it was announced that the recently formed gay Republican group GOProud was a co-sponsor.
The group's leader, Jimmy LaSalvia, will participate in a panel discussion Saturday morning on using technology to mobilize conservatives.
A quick read of topics covered at the conference would lead one to believe the gay Republicans have walked into a den of lions. Anti-gay groups such as the Christian-based Focus on the Family Action, Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum and the Catholic Advocate will speak on a range of social issues, including one panel titled Saving Freedom from the Enemies of our Values.
On the exhibition floor, the gay Republicans have set up shop just two booths down from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation's most vociferous opponent of gay marriage.
“It's the ultimate Washington power grab to say let's have a federal constitutional amendment that will federalize the question of marriage,” Christopher Barron, chairman of GOProud, told CNN.
NOM offered a terse message via POLITICO's Ben Smith to the gay Republicans. “We have a message for GOProud on marriage: If you try to elect pro-gay marriage Republicans, we will Dede Scozzafava them. The majority of Americans, and the vast majority of Republicans, support marriage as the union of husband and wife, and NOM is here to make sure these voters and their voices are heard loud and clear,” the group said referring to a Republican lawmaker who supports gay marriage and was squeezed out by social conservatives last November from pursuing a New York Congressional seat.
“Who's the pansy at #CPAC10 ? - NOM can't even walk a few feet to deliver 'message',” GOProud sparred back on Twitter.
Among the criticisms lobbed at gay Republicans from gay Democrats, however, is their apparent contradiction on gay marriage. The group says it supports the right of gay and lesbians to marry. But gay Republican groups have previously endorsed anti-gay marriage candidates, including Senators John McCain of Arizona and Scott Brown of Massachusetts.
CPAC ends Saturday.
I can believe there are homos who want a strong national security & to defeat the terrorists & to have a rational economy.
But if they’re pushing society-destroying issues like homo ‘marriage’ & open faggotry in the military, then they ARE dems.
I didn’t “link.” I posted their entire article so they wouldn’t get any hits and I posted it to show precisely how most gays view Republicans and mistake Republicans like Romney for conservatives.
I see thanks
Fresno, we have a Christmas day signup problem.
Yes, I think their agenda speaks for itself. I took it right from their linked website at CPAC.
That Romans passage from KJV is crystal clear.
1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. NIV
It’s not just the homosexuals who will not inherit the kingdom of God. Been greedy? Slandered someone? Know a swindler? Ever committed adultery? Ever idolized anyone or skipped Bible study [or church] to watch a television show or sport?
This Bible verse hit’s very close to home, huh?
NS. RIP.
CPAC is a shell of what it used to be. Both Sarah and Rush wisely took a pass this year.
CPAC made a HUGE mistake letting these guys come and set up a booth and boo speakers they don’t like.
People were already suspicious of CPAC, and I think this was a jump-the-shark move for them.
Really stupid.
As for Mitt Romney, he was basically responsible for gay marriage in Massachusetts. The Mass. Supreme Court ordered the Mass. legislature to legislate gay marriage. The legislature refused to do so. But Governor Romney told all the clerks in the state that they either had to marry gay people or lose their jobs.
No one made him do that. No one COULD make him do that. He just went ahead and did it.
LOL. I hear ya, Jim!
Death by suicide!
Should people start GOPchess or GOPcheckers?
They do so because they are all about advancing the homosexual agenda. And as that agenda grows it pushes out other agendas. Homosexuals promote homosexuals, eventually they take over. That is their agenda and their are very effective at it.
While regular guys are home at night with the wife and kids, maybe thinking that the homosexuals are no problem to be concerned about anyway - the homosexuals are out networking nearly 24/7, for a reason.
Especially when they want to rub it in your face. Literally.
I sure as heck do not want to be rankled by anyone - most especially gay politicians.
Mitt Romney is a troll. Zot ‘em.
What do I care if mice are nibbling away in the pantry when my house is on fire???
Wedge issues, designed to dishearten, divide, confuse, and keeps us away from the polls IS NOT GOING TO WORK THIS TIME.
Everything you said is true, Cicero and yet, this gay magazine calls Romney “anti-gay.” LOL.
Stupid Romney, all that gay appeasing got him nothing from them, and nothing from us. He is a man WITHOUT core values and a man with their support or ours.
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