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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Palin said that? Really? Document that with quotes.
The Boss watches these threads. It’s where the contention is.
Why are you attempting to use a fictitious character in an attempt to refute what I wrote?
“The One” is one of the names used for God. Often in Scripture, it will be coupled with a relative clause.
Oh come on...you know what a ZOT is!
Of course she does not have the power to disallow the gay groups a platform. That is not what I was saying. She said she has no problem with them having it though. I agree that we want to accept the gays into our tent of course...they just should not be given a platform as a separate type of person because that is somehow giving credence to homosexuality and we should never do that! It is against commonsense and conservative family values. It is a traumatized perverted state...period. and if they go to patriotoutreach.org and practice the free Be Still download, they can be free of that. That said, a gay conservative is far better than a gay liberal because at least they have held onto more of their God given commonsense!
Go to Hill Buzz and find out. They’re all over the Abortion Clinic atrocity.
And a protected right by the US Supreme Court. Take your argument up with them.
You take it up with God. We'll see who spends eternity in Hell.
The Left is STILL going to hate her!
I think we are going to find out she is far more 'tolerant' then anyone expected.
What next-conservative pedophiles?
As soon as the issue is raised, those who want to accept it as 'normal' try to claim those who are opposing it are being obsessive.
Gee, that sounds like New Age 'Christianity' not Biblical Christianity.
It is not a 'relationship' it is a perversion.
This isn't about freedom of speech.
This is about redefining morality.
She should take a Clue From David Cameron, Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela Merckel,DIVERSITY is a Failure.
Lets get Back to our roots,we are a Diverse Country that is the Miracle of America,the Difference used to be that we Rally around what Unites Us NOT WHAT Divides us. These Clowns are only defined on who they have sex with,not an issue that I would go out and fight for,I prefer Liberty and freedom,and if these clowns could grow up then maybe we could communicate
Nor, has anyone stated anything about punishing them for their deviancy.
But we are not going to accept homosexuality as anything less then a deviancy and anyone who does I do not regard as a Conservative.
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