Posted on 02/10/2011 6:25:57 AM PST by Notary Sojac
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said Wednesday evening she has no objection to the participation of gay Republicans at this weekend's gathering of conservatives in Washington.
Palin said she didn't see anything wrong with the participation of GOProud, a group of gay Republicans, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which runs Thursday through Saturday.
"I don't have a problem with different, diverse groups that are involved in political discourse, and having a convention to talk about what the answers are to their problems that face America," Palin said Wednesday on Fox News when asked about GOProud.
Palin isn't participating in the conference, and she's declined previous invitations, despite CPAC's role as a cattle call for possible Republican presidential candidates.
But other prominent conservatives have said they're skipping the conference. The conservative Heritage Foundation and other socially conservative groups withdrew due to the inclusion of GOProud. And with those groups out, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) followed suit. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also declined participation, though it's unclear if that decision is linked to GOProud.
Aside from DeMint, though, the other Republicans mulling a run for president are slated to speak or participate at the conference, hoping in part to boost their standing in the closely watched straw poll of attendees.
Palin suggested that conservatives had more important issues to worry about than which groups were attending the conference.
"People are losing their jobs; they're losing homes. We're still engaged in a war," she said. "There are so many life-changing, life-and-death issues out there in front of us. You know, we'd better be concentrating on what is really important here and not going kind of tit-for-tat as people are positioning themselves for 2012."
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Major disappointment with Palin. GOProud is not a conservative group and as such does not belong at a conservative conference.
If Palin is going to claim that a group seeking special rights for people who practise homosexual sodomy and seek having government dictate this perverted morality as being protected publically (which GOProud promotes)deserves to be at a conservative conference then she has just completely lost all support from me.
Major disappointment with Palin. GOProud is not a conservative group and as such does not belong at a conservative conference.
If Palin is going to claim that a group seeking special rights for people who practise homosexual sodomy and seek having government dictate this perverted morality as being protected publically (which GOProud promotes)deserves to be at a conservative conference then she has just completely lost all support from me.
::: CRICKETS :::
As far as tolerance goes. If you peed in your pants everyday and sucked them dry more power to you. It's your live and your eternal soul that is at stake not mine. I might try to let you know your behavior is wrong but I would not ask the government to step in and stop you from doing it. I might ask the church or a doctor to go visit you.
And if you tried to teach my kids your behavior I would tell you to shut up and go pee in your pants in your home.
Yaelle my dear you have a lovely soft heart. But this isn’t about individual homosexuals. It’s about a group trying to force their view on others. And that is what GROUPS do. The idea is that a group has more power than an individual voice and the group drowns out dissent and opposition. No one cares what homosexuals do in private. I care what they are doing in public, in the courts and in the schools, as a GROUP.
Freedon of speech is great but allowing these perverts a platform at a right wing gathering is sooo wrong. She is wrong here.
The Commonlaw definition of "sodomy," as well as the codified definition of sodomy in many states, includes oral sex between a man and woman. I don't consider that to be deviant.
Don’t celebrate too soon. Where did she endorse their agenda?
Personally, I suspect that she was responding to a very unclear question that was designed to create confusion and turmoil - a typical MSM tactic. Things will become more clear in time.
>>All she has to do is mildly indicate that Mormons are entitled to life, liberty and happiness and certain heads explode around here.
All she has to do is mildly indicate that libertarians are entitled to life, liberty and happiness and certain heads explode around here.
All she has to do is mildly indicate that (plug in your choice) are entitled to life, liberty and happiness and certain heads explode around here.<<
Amen.
I personally don’t care what anyone does.
I just want my kids to stay innocent for a while.
Walkingfeather Libertarian: If Jesus were here today, he'd walk into a den of moral degenerates and tell them to quit sodomizing each other and repent their sins.
As the ever so brilliant Selwyn Duke wrote in his column entitled: "WHY MANY AMERICAN CHRISTIANS ARE REALLY UN-CHRISTIAN":
"Let us be blunt: It is simply not possible to espouse relativism — which holds that right and wrong are opinion — and be a true Christian.
Why? It’s simple: Jesus did not die for our opinions. Jesus did not say that His blood was the blood of the new and everlasting covenant and that it would be shed for you and for all so that opinions may be forgiven; He did not say, I am a way, a truth, and a life; He did not say, let he who is without opinion cast the first stone; He did not say to that dark tempter, “It is said, ‘Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God,’” but, hey, Satan, whatever works for you.
There are many doctrinal differences among the denominations, and good people could debate them ad nauseam and still not settle every one. Yet, if anything is central to Christianity, it’s the belief that Truth is spelled with a capital “T,” that it is absolute, universal and eternal."
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If Palin wants to meet with a group of "proud" sodomites and tell them that "Jesus is the way", then a private meeting, NOT a CPAC convention, would be the proper avenue to take.
Links.
No, you’re right, she didn’t endorse them. But she is letting them in the tent. I still support her.
Yes Christ would have ate with them, outreached to them, welcomed them to REPENT and SIN NO MORE. He never would have gone to one of the pagen temples of sexual perversion and said you all are just great the way you are keep it up and by the way, here have some kids to train!
Yes Christ would have ate with them, outreached to them, welcomed them to REPENT and SIN NO MORE. He never would have gone to one of the pagen temples of sexual perversion and said you all are just great the way you are keep it up and by the way, here have some kids to train!
Considering the moral devoid in churches I suspect He'd be at both. Remember his visit to the money changers in the Temple.
Last I looked Palin isn’t going to CPAC.
Thank you wagglebee. I am about tired of being told that we are going to just have to sit back and accept it.
It is unbelievable to me that we even have to have this discussion. If the gay agenda was so “acceptable” they wouldn’t have to use government force and indoctrination to cram it upon us.
A person’s right to life is not a federalist issue either. It is a human right. You see, the leftists know that it is a human right and that is why they used the power of the Federal government to force the issue of taking away the right to life.
The GOP has totally failed on these issues. They justify doing nothing by evoking Federalism.
I am amazed at how the democrats consider social issues as being top on the list. That is why we are in the mess we are in. Being on the dark side of social issues has been fruitful for them.
“fags”
Maybe next you could say “Hymie” or “Mick”.
If you believe Obama is a federalist, I recommend you consult a dictionary or better yet a thesaurus. And while you’re in there, try to find a more unique way to express yourself, a way that you can say your point without publicly revealing your bigotry.
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