Avoid Social Issues, GOP Urged (Homosexualists, Pro-Aborts Co-opt Tea Party Movement)

Politico ^ | Sunday, November 14, 2010 | Ben Smith and Byron Tau

[kristinn]

A gay conservative group and some Tea Party leaders are campaigning to keep social issues off the Republican agenda.

In a letter to be released Monday, the group GOProud and leaders from groups like the Tea Party Patriots and the New American Patriots, will urge Republicans in the House and Senate to keep their focus on shrinking the government.

"On behalf of limited-government conservatives everywhere, we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the Tea Party movement," they write to presumptive House Speaker John Boehner and Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell in an advance copy provided to POLITICO. "This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue."

The letter's signatories range from GOProud's co-founder and Chairman Christopher Barron — a member of a group encouraging Dick Cheney to run for president and who has been known to post images of his bare torso to Twitter — to Tea Party leaders with no particular interest in the gay rights movement.

As of Sunday evening, the letter had 17 signatories. They include tea party organizers, conservative activists and media personalities from across the country, including radio host Tammy Bruce, bloggers Bruce Carroll, Dan Blatt and Doug Welch, and various local coordinators for the Tea Party Patriots and other tea party groups.

"When they were out in the Boston Harbor, they weren't arguing about who was gay or who was having an abortion," said Ralph King, a letter signatory who is a Tea Party Patriots national leadership council member, as well as an Ohio co-coordinator.

King said he signed onto the letter because GOProud seemed to be genuine in pushing for fiscal conservatism and limited government.

"Am I going to be the best man at a same sex-marriage wedding? That's not something I necessarily believe in," said King. "I look at myself as pretty socially conservative. But that's not what we push through the Tea Party Patriots."

That indifference is essentially the point of the gay conservative group.

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TEXT OF LETTER

Dear Senator McConnell and Representative Boehner

On behalf of limited government conservatives everywhere we write to urge you and your colleagues in Washington to put forward a legislative agenda in the next Congress that reflects the principles of the Tea Party movement.

Poll after poll confirms that the Tea Party’s laser focus on issues of economic freedom and limited government resonated with the American people on Election Day. The Tea Party movement galvanized around a desire to return to constitutional government and against excessive spending, taxation and government intrusion into the lives of the American people.

The Tea Party movement is a non-partisan movement, focused on issues of economic freedom and limited government, and a movement that will be as vigilant with a Republican-controlled Congress as we were with a Democratic-controlled Congress.

This election was not a mandate for the Republican Party, nor was it a mandate to act on any social issue, nor should it be interpreted as a political blank check.

Already, there are Washington insiders and special interest groups that hope to co-opt the Tea Party’s message and use it to push their own agenda – particularly as it relates to social issues. We are disappointed but not surprised by this development. We recognize the importance of values but believe strongly that those values should be taught by families and our houses of worship and not legislated from Washington, D.C.

We urge you to stay focused on the issues that got you and your colleagues elected and to resist the urge to run down any social issue rabbit holes in order to appease the special interests.

The Tea Party movement is not going away and we intend to continue to hold Washington accountable. Sincerely,

Christopher R Barron
Chairman of the Board, GOProud

Andrew Ian Dodge
Coordinator, Maine Tea Party Patriots

Pam Stevenson
Coordinator, Arizona Tea Party Patriots

Dianna Greenwood
Executive Director, New American Patriots (Ashland, OH)

Jim Mason II
Chairman and State Coordinator, Nebraska’s Tea Party Patriots

Ralph King
Co-coordinator Cleveland Tea Party Patriots
Co-coordinator State of Ohio Tea Party Patriots

Jack Lien
Coordinator, Tea Party Patriots of Great Malls (Montana)

Tammy Bruce
National Radio Talk Show Host

JP Weber
Coordinator, Annapolis (Maryland) Tea Party

Doug Welch,
Blogger and member Southern Illinois Tea Party

Bruce Carroll
Conservative Activist and Blogger

Pam Stout
Coordinator, Sandpoint Idaho Tea Party Patriots

Dan Blatt
Conservative Activist and Blogger

Everett Wilkinson
Coordinator, Florida Tea Party

Jimmy LaSalvia
Executive Director, GOProud

Paul Crockett
President Santa Clara (California) Tea Party
David Thor Andreasen
Cumberland County (Maine) Tea Party

[Rashputin]

OK, fine. Cut all Federal and State funding of abortion clinics and make them pay taxes like every other for profit business. That'll slow abortion to a crawl while dealing only with financial issues.

Cut all funding for AID medications at the State and Federal level and homosexual issues starte to fade rapidly away while dealing with only financial issues.

The fact is, the people with the moral fiber to stop the criminal financial theft machine the Federal government has become have the moral fiber to take a stand on other issues as well including outright as well as creeping mass murder.

Social Issues? These folks sound like they want to build themselves new little cliques and end up with the swing votes in order to hold the solution to our financial crisis hostage to their social agenda, not like they want to ensure the focus remans on financial issues.

Regards

[ari-freedom]

It’s the gays who want the state to define marriage to be between a man and another man. They should leave the current laws alone.
They can screw each other in the privacy of the bedroom but they shouldn’t expect the state to give them any new benefits.

[Carry_Okie]

One could just as easily argue that social conservatives are co-opting the TEA party movement.

The economic costs of moral depravity are the largest single source of the demand for entitlement spending.

[EternalVigilance]

We’ve known all along that there were problems with the moral basis of some so-called “leaders” in the Tea Party movement. This is the worst example so far.

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[madprof98]

The Libertarian party would be the perfect place for these people. And given all the elections it just screwed up and handed to Democrats, they would probably just LOVE it there!

[Rome2000]

I wonder if the morons who signed this letter can walk and chew gum at the same time.

The audacity of these douchebags,if they weren’t half retarded, they would know that the marxist strategy for taking over the USA ties destruction of judeo christian morality along with the destruction of capitalism.

MEANS YOU CANT FIGHT ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER

1963-Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman’s request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following “Current Communist Goals,” which she identifies as an excerpt from “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen:

[From “The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev’s promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture—education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use [”]united force[”] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

[sausageseller]

Actually, we don't know, because it was never brought up. Nor should it be.

And why would any right thinking person NOT bring it up?

Why should our tax dollars be used to push abortions and the prohomo pursuits?

You make like funding Planned Murderhood and the Pro pervert lobby but me and millions of others say NO but HELL NO!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

So what do you suggest Republicans do?

[little jeremiah]

You are on the wrong side, buddy.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Always worth repeating. Thanks.

if they weren’t half retarded, they would know that the marxist strategy for taking over the USA ties destruction of judeo christian morality along with the destruction of capitalism.

Three-quarters.

[xzins]

The candidates I voted for were known pro-life conservatives: Portman, Schmidt, Kasich.

If they hadn’t been, they wouldn’t have gotten my vote.

Homosexuality is anti-life and pro-death for those who practice it.

[EternalVigilance]

The abandonment of our Creator, and the principle of the protection of the unalienable rights of ALL of those who are made in His image, is the disease.

The money troubles, the loss of liberty, and the increase in the overweening power of government, are symptoms of that disease.

These people are too unprincipled and/or ignorant to understand that.

No different at all than the people who have controlled the Republican Party for some time.

[Jim Robinson]

Looks like a whole lot of self-appointed tea party “leaders.” Eff ‘em. We don’t need and don’t want any steenking leaders!!

RINOS & CINOS be damed! Full speed ahead!

Rebellion is brewing!!

[LomanBill]

>>How they run the business of America does.

You suggesting the business of America should be run without a moral compass?
 

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. ...

 

...reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. "

--From President George Washinton's farewell address, 1796

"I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY"
--
Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's code of morality did not include tolerance for homosexual perversions of nature.  Do you think Jefferson was wrong?

[counterpunch]

Why should our tax dollars be used to push abortions and the prohomo pursuits?
You make like funding Planned Murderhood and the Pro pervert lobby but me and millions of others say NO but HELL NO!

This is a strawman.
They should defund these things, by all means. Just as they should defund all areas of government waste.
But they should do it on those terms, not because they're taking a Fundamentalist stance.
There are many ways to package the same agenda.
It is an artform the Democrats have mastered, but sadly, still escapes the Stupid Party.
 

[icwhatudo]

How sad that so many on Free Republic defend CPAC on welcoming GOPROUD to its event.

[dadfly]

thanks for this list. i’ll add it to my present list of so called “tea party generals” to keep an eye on. in fact some of these are already on. be ware of “tea party patriots.” some of these folks are in it for themselves.

remember. speaking as a self-selected tea partier, no one person or “general” speaks for the tea party. and these folks don’t speak for me or the local group i’m in.

[RedMDer]

They can’t beat us. All they can do is divide us and have us beat ourselves.

Exactly right and this is from Politico.

[TheBigIf]

Anyone who is truely a TEA party member will reject these social Marxists.

The agenda of the perversion rights movements are not at all a Constitutional movement or a limited government movement.

These perverts who want perversion rights or the right to murder babies are not worthy of a vioce in the TEA party.

These perverts should be called out and put in their place.