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What’s up with CPAC? There’s no need for a Log Cabin wing.

...also Sun writing this:

And despite the fact that GOProud was founded by a former member of the Log Cabin Republicans — a pro-homosexual group — De Pasquale describes GOProud as a group that “promotes our traditional conservative agenda” — i.e., an emphasis on limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and a confident foreign policy. For that reason, she concludes, GOProud should not be turned away as a CPAC sponsor.”

I apologize in advance for confusing you with the facts, but GOProud was specifically formed to OPPOSE the Log Cabin Republicans as NOT representing conservative principles. Here are some of the things one of the founders of GOProud said on his blog, Gay Patriot, at the time GOProud was organized:

As long-time readers know I have been very critical of the national Log Cabin Republicans for many years.
Their left-of-center positions on important issues have bothered me as LCR has continually sucked the teet of the Gay Leftist agenda. LCR’s silence and unwillingness to stand up and be vocal on true gay conservative issues (outing of Republican staffers, increasing threat of gays being selectively aborted, peril gays face by Islamic extremists) has been mind-boggling. And LCR’s continued obsession in trashing Republicans, yet letting Democrats get a pass on their gay-related hypocrisies, has been infruriating.
Many of you, friends and critics alike, have told me if I wasn’t happy with LCR to do something about it. I have tried shining light on the organization from GayPatriot.org. But many of us felt more had to be done.
So I’m proud to announce my involvement as a board member of this new organization.

So here's a group trying to expose the leftism of phony gay conservatives, and trying to provide a genuinely conservative org for gay Republicans, and also trying to contribute their little bit to CPAC.

And what reception do they get here on FR, a site which one would think is supposed to stand for the advancement of conservatism on all fronts?

They get loathsome -- and, I must say, c r e e p i l y enthusiastic -- feces related name calling.

This has been a thoroughly disgusting display.

I am further ashamed to recall that the only other place, in memory, that I've encountered the bigoted curse f****-p***er was from leftist Air-America radio host Randi Rhodes.

Rhodes used, and likely still uses, the term, and many similar, in frequent diatribes against the one time "Talon News" reporter Jeff Ganon, as well as other gay conservatives. I discussed that here.

BTW, anyone remember that our own kristinn, and the FreeRepublic DC Chapter, defended Gannon against the outrageous and hypocritical, selectively anti-conservative, homophobia which descended on him from all quarters of the left?

I do. I remember that. That I was proud of. (This present instance notwhithstanding, I have often been proud of FR.)

As another aside, after googling up that page from the GayPatriot blog, and only just glancing at a few comments on only a couple entries, I've already noticed multiple cases where site regulars DEFEND their fellow conservatives in the EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN community against comments by posters hostile to the site.

That won't shame the bigots here on FR either, but it should.