Posted on 02/24/2010 1:44:54 PM PST by Steelfish
Feb. 24, 2010 Have Gays Found Their Place in the GOP? Dramatic Moment at Conservative Confab Could Be a Sign of Change Within Republican Party When It Comes to Gay Rights
A memorable moment at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference could mark a turning point in the long-fraught relationship between gays and the Republican Party.
CPAC is perhaps the nation's premiere conservative gathering, a convivial opportunity for impassioned right-wing activists to network, plan for upcoming elections and listen to the biggest names in the conservative movement. It's the sort of atmosphere in which the casual observer might expect someone like Ryan Sorba to receive a warm welcome.
Sorba, who wrote a book entitled "The Gay Gene Hoax," took the podium at this year's CPAC and immediately expressed his unhappiness that the conference had allowed a gay Republican group called GOProud to be a sponsor.
He didn't get very far. After delivering a rambling condemnation of homosexuality, Sorba was essentially booed offstage, prompting him to angrily complain to his conservative audience that "the lesbians at Smith College protest better than you do."
Gay Republicans say it was a telling moment: Evidence that the GOP is "moving away from a negative hate-based connotation with homosexuals in the Republican party," according to Charles T. Moran, spokesman for the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay Republican group.
"The conservative movement is so focused on the issues that bring us together -- limited government, personal responsibility and freedom -- that the social issues have kind of gotten pushed off to the side," he said. "Even the Tea Party movement - these people are not talking about social issues."
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Have Conservatives found a position in Viacom’s newsrooms?
Didn’t the ACLU also have a booth at this year’s “conservative” CPAC?
The Gay Mafia has been well entrenched in the media for decades, North, South, East, and West.
Log Cabin under Democratic control? - Rich Democrat, Tim Gill, is dictating GOP group’s direction (Alliance Defense Fund ^ | February 27, 2009 | Chris Johnson)
With the media being so fired up about the repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell in the military, I’d like the homosexual reporters who read the news on air every day to step forward as well.
It’d help explain why they push a certain agenda.
This would be the equivalent of Meghan McCain taking over the moderation of Free Republic.
Groan!
Hey Charles T. Moran, do us all a favor and go join your depraved pals in the no “hate-based connotation” Democratic Party will ya?
By far most gays vote for the Demoncrats anyways, so it's not a big loss if the rest of the perverted crew join them as well is it?
IT WAS YOUR BUS! IT WAS YOUR BUS!
The phags want to punk everything and anything they can. It is a lesson learned hard by the “can’t we just get along” crowd. It was only a few decades ago that we were being told homos just wanted to live and let live. Now they’re telling us how to bring up our kids.
And yes, I know some gays who fit that profile.
I’ll do everything in my power to see that they haven’t.
Couldn't help but notice you left out one key plank: strength of the family, our fundamental social unit.
You can find teh gays poking around the bottom
Don’t they mean, has the gay agenda infilitrated the GOP?
and Judeo-Christian morality
Very well put. I know some as well.
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