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.
Because they say so!
LOL.
I’m willing to welcome any group that’s in favor of smaller government into the fold, and fight them on the issues which we disagree.
They are not conservative at all.
Thank you very much for finding this and posting it. It should be on every thread about this stuff.
I couldn’t have put it any better, and thanks for using the King James version!
Did you read their agenda?
They don’t want smaller gov. They want the government to push their agenda, that’s all.
Remember, Christians believe Jesus died for our sins. We all fail, we ask God for his forgiveness, then try very hard never to sin again, mostly we fail. But, the true evil doer or violator of God’s laws, is a religious sociopath, no remorse, feels no need to repent, and repeatedly violates Gods laws. I, just me, believes that is what that bible passage is telling us. The bible specifically singles out male to male sex as an abomination. Gays including Eugene Robinson, must make a choice, then it is between them and God. Regardless of your faith, repeatably violating a religious tenant shows a lack of remorse and prevents forgiveness. Even our less than God like court of laws punishes repeat offenders more than first time offenders.
And now that CPAC has chosen Ron Paul in the straw poll, CPAC is dead.
CPAC has now become totally irrelevant.
I think they like him fine when they can use him. They call him anti-gay to try to get us to embrace him so Obama can have an easy opponent.
So is Romney associated with this GOPerv group?
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Just to make it easy for everyone to know exactly what GOProud stands for. Not conservative. Not a bit of it. "Holding the line" on gov spending?? How about a roll back of say 2/3? What to speak of repealing DADT etc.
GOProud=GayPride
No, I don’t think so. He seems to be more the kind of guy who tries to have it both ways.
That’s all it is. Dressed in a fake costume of “conservative”.
If gay people have conservative views in some part, and want to vote for conservative politicians, that is very welcome, but they should not have been at CPAC as a lobby.
Their presence will erode the nation’s support for the conservatives.
Exactly right.
It really is amazing! I can actually get through most of my days without ever having to tell anybody that I’m heterosexual!
Hey Homosexuals, why is it this has to define you? You folks have made this the issue...not us!
As moderate democrats co-opt the GOP as RINOs, hard left socialists take the seats of power in the DNC and the whole nation is thrust the Left with no conservative party of any measurable size.
We must remember what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. The same fate could befall upon the United States.
Not that there’s anything wrong with being anti-gay. Just make sure you were born that way ;)
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