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.
OK thank you
They were co-sponsors of CPAC, that’s why.
They’re trying to infiltrate by posing as conservatives, but as you can readily see by their agenda I posted, they’re more concerned with their own issues, of course.
no you’re the homosexual on here who wants the homosexual agenda
you’re nothing but a sick pervert
I agree, I saw you post down on the thread later and thank you for posting this.
and I agree with you
it is high time for conservatives to say piss off to them, we all know they are not conservatives but more homosexuals who vote for the Dems pretending to be us
either we should have banned them or we should have made another venue without them knowing until it was too late or more should have spoken out
if they are conservative on fiscal matters but more liberal on social then they need to join the liberterian party but not us
We are all sinners, but you left out the important parts, HighlyOpinionated:
Luke 13:3b (NIV) “But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
Ps 119:104-105 (NIV) I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore, I hate every wrong path. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.
2 Tim 2:19 (NIV) “The Lord knows those who are his,” and “everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”
And the BEST parts of all:
1 John 2:1 (NIV) “My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.”
1 John 1:9 (NIV) “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
Acts 3:19 (NIV) “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,”
Daniel 9:9 (NIV) “The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him;”
Psalms 103:12 (NIV) “As far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”
Christianity in a nutshell:
- Everyone is tempted to do wrong.
- One wrong isn’t better than another.
- Even one failure is enough to bring condemnation.
- Temptation isn’t bad. Acting on it is.
- Every human falls short of what God intends.
- Those who don’t repent are condemned by their own acts.
- Christ died to take our sins on His head.
- Those who repent and turn from evil are forgiven.
- Christ will testify on their behalf before the Father.
- The sin, the evil they did, will be wiped clean.
FUDGEPAC was a disgrace this year.
The fact that GOProud was even invited told me that the organizers of CPAC decided for a watered down version of Conservatism so as to appeal to a broader audience of left of center moderates and media types. They were probably tired of being referred to in the media as, “A Star Wars Convention for political types”.
The Republicans may have lost their way, but it’s clear CPAC has lost it’s mind.
Ann Coulter is NOT Catholic or a Mormon.
Fair enough, I was thinking of Laura Graham who converted to Catholicism shortly before the newly installed Pope visited the US for the first time.
UGH! That would be Laura Ingraham.
Ditto Puerto Rican statehood supporters, the open borders lobby and any other group of simians who want to turn the US into a third world country.
I'm not running away from homosexuals. You could say I am standing firm for what I believe in. Homosexuality is an adbomination. It's neither a God-given gift or in my opinion; it's not an acceptable lifestyle.
What I do know is, I'm a sinner also. I don't hate the sinner, I hate the sin, and the homosexual lifestyle in my opinion is a sin. If you don't believe it is, then you need to re-read the part of the Bible where it teaches about Sodom and Gomorrah and what the consequences were of living such deviancy brought the citizens of those cities were from God.
They never confessed or repented and God has a way of taking care of those who turn their backs on Him.
Now, as to GOProud's so-called agenda. One can argue that any one of these items could be co-opted by the right or the left.
Their plan doesn't call for the reduction of the size of government but the expansion of it through the advancement of gay rights as an acceptable lifestyle.
28. Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"
29. Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."
What, in my reply, made you think I was AFRAID of MORMONism?
The table below was published on page 49 of the Pew report at http://pewforum.org/publications/reports/poll2002.pdf:
| Survey Response | %, June 1996 | %, March 2001 | %, March 2002 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protestant | 53 | 53 | 52 |
| Catholic | 23 | 23 | 24 |
| Mormon (Latter-day Saints) |
2 | 2 | 2 |
| Orthodox | 1 | 1 | * |
| Non-denominational | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Something else (Specify) | 1 | * | 2 |
| Not practicing any religion | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Don't know/Refused | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| TOTAL CHRISTIAN | 84% | 82% | 82% |
The percentages shown in this table reflect the number of members of each branch as a proportion of the total U.S. population, not just the Christian population. So the Catholic percentage of 24% for 2002 means that 24% of Americans identified themselves as Catholic in 2002.
;^)
Watch out; or they'll be running after you!
Then I am obviously in the minority, because I don’t belong to any manmade religion and I don’t believe belonging to one will save oneself from Eternal Damnation in Hell.
Are there OTHER kinds?
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