FRC: Conservatives and Gays "Cannot Coexist"

More Conservative Groups Pulling Out OF CPAC --And Blasting Gay Inclusion
Is the annual CPAC conservative Activist conference coming undone -- with the inclusion of gays being the final straw? As we've posted before, some social conservative groups have been pulling out of the annual event, due to the inclusion of the gay conservative group GOProud. As the right-wing World Net Daily, which has been hammering away at this issue, now reports, the Heritage Foundation and the Media Research Center -- an organization that cover a variety of issues, not just social conser...

'Family Research Council' Expains Boycot of Conservative Conference
In an email to supporters titled, "Sticking up for the 'C' in CPAC," Tony Perkins, president of the prominent social conservative Family Research Council, explained why his group would not attend this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). "FRC has chosen not to partner with a 'conservative' event that places the protection of marriage on the same plane as redefining it," wrote Perkins. "Would CPAC team up with the Brady Campaign which fights to restrict--if not abolish--the Se...

Conservatives Running Away from Conservative Conference Because Some Gays Might Show Up
Uh oh! Looks like some of the heads of Conservative Movement's "values voters" wing has caught wind that some gay people are planning on attending their annual orgiastic patriot party. Can't risk being associated with those types… Some of the nation's most prominent social Conservatives are sending a message to their economic brethren by dropping out of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in response to the decision to include GOProud, a gay conse...

David Keene: Full steam ahead for CPAC
Earlier this afternoon, I spoke with David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, about the Controversy surrounding the inclusion of GOProud at CPAC and the subsequent Boycotts from a handful of social-conservativism organizations, most prominently the Family Research Council.  Keene discussed the Controversy at length, as well as the revelation that the ACU had initiated a Probe into possible embezzlement that got aired in part because of the boycott over GOProud’s inclusi...

GOProud Scares Off the Right
The fable about the giant elephant becoming panicked at the sight of a tiny little mouse turns out to be true.  Media Matters for America, a giant elephant in the Conservative Movement, is joining the “no gays allowed” Boycott of this year’s CPAC.  Other large conservative groups such as the Family Research Council and even the Heritage Foundation are evidently terrified of a tiny little gay mouse, namely a fledgling group of gay Conservatives known as GOProud. Humiliation ...

Conservative Groups Split Over Participation Of GOProud At Annual CPAC Conference
Conservative Groups Split Over Participation Of GOProud At Annual CPAC Conference The Family Research Council and a few other social conservative organizations like Concerned Women for America, American Principles Project and American Values are refusing to attend next month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to Protest the participation GOProud, a Gay Rights group. But Focus on Family is staying put, at least for now: “They made a mistake,” CitizenLink spoke...

CPAC Chair David Keene Responds to Social Conservatives
Friday afternoon, I had a chance to catch up today with David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, the group that runs the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) each year. In recent days, CPAC has come under criticism from social conservative groups for allowing GOProud -- a gay conservative group -- to co-sponsor the event. Some conservative groups, including The Family Research Council (FRC), have even announced they are boycotting this year's gathering for this reaso...

Hating the Sinner
Harsanyi: it’s Social Conservatism that will most often turn those with Secular sensibilities away from the right. Even within the movement, a Libertarian vs. social conservative debate has roiled on forever. This dynamic is only going to change when political expediency becomes a force more powerful than faith — which is to say the day after we pay off the National Debt. Now, it’s true that social Conservatives can be unfairly ridiculed as bigots in these debates. But sometimes,...

Absurd CPAC drama continues
The infighting amongst Conservatives escalated this week as Focus on the Family became the latest sponsor of CPAC to threaten a Boycott of the conference because of the role GOProud, a gay conservative group, is playing this year: Focus on the Family and other conservative ministries are boycotting or questioning their commitment to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., next month because a gay Advocacy Group is cosponsoring the event. Tom Minnery, senior vice ...

Heritage Foundation Moves Closer To Fringe, Drops Out Of CPAC
As the Conservative Movement moves further and further to the fringe, the Heritage Foundation, once the bastion of conservative intellectualism, has decided to align itself with the hard right. The Washington Times reports that Heritage is among several conservative groups that will be skipping this year's Conservative Political Action Conference in response to the participation of GOProud — a gay Republican group — in the popular annual gathering. Other social-issues groups opting t...

GAFFNEY REMINDS US WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL OF NORQUIST
Frank Gaffney has written on Big Peace about some serious downsides to CPAC, including misappropriation of funds, and even most disturbingly, Islam apologists Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan, who are covered in this important WND article here. Norquist and Khan's involvement with the Muslim Brotherhood is something that Conservatives who understand the threat of Islamofascism and shari'a are going to have to ponder, because in order to combat the threats effectively, that's why they must not b...

GOProud Grabs Spotlight from Real Activists
The gay conservative group GOProud scored a big political win over its most dangerous rival this week.  No, I’m not referring to their social conservative adversaries.  I’m referring to the more relevant and less conservative group GOProud splintered away from: the Log Cabin Republicans. This is nothing new.  Just as it did at last year’s CPAC conference, this year GOProud again created a stir by signing on to co-sponsor the annual gathering.  Rather than take a firm

MRC Scooped By WND On Its Own Story
MRC Scooped By WND On Its Own Story Topic: Media Research Center In a story posted at 9:55 p.m. ET on Jan. 6, WorldNetDaily's Brian Fitzpatrick reported that the Media Research Center would not participate in the conservative confab CPAC "because of the continued participation of the Homosexual Activist organization GOProud." As of this writing, however, this news has not appeared on any MRC-operated website. That is curious. Why did the MRC allow WND to scoop it on a story it ar...

Daniels Close to Presidential Run, Abortion Truce May Hurt Him
Reports indicate Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is inching closer towards a presidential run for the Republican nomination, but he may be hurt by an Abortion truce he declared last summer. Erin McPike of Real Clear Politics writes, “Republican sources in Indiana say Daniels is about 75 percent of the way in for a presidential run.” “The last 25 percent of his decision will come during the next four months of the Indiana legislative session, when he will try to pass education re...

Space on the social right
Social Conservatism certainly isn't the flavor of the moment, and there's some question of how it'll fare in the next generation of the right. But right now it's a clear, well-organized space for figures seeking a national profile, and Mike Pence is as good as anyone at holding it: Rep. Mike Pence, the Indiana congressman who is considering a presidential bid, introduced an anti-abortion bill...

Big Government and the Constitution
Listen to this discussion with Keith Olbermann and Yale political scientist Akhil Reed Amar. Progressives despise Limited Government, a concept that never leaves the lips of either of these men. The full entry is here:" Progressives Want to Read Slavery Back Into Constitution." Additional commentary at American Power. Share this article! Conservatives with Attitude!...

David Sirota: The Money Paradox
If there's one thing you can still count on from today's increasingly erratic politics, it is pure unadulterated paradox. In a Washington circus that features as many morons as oxymorons, we have self-described Deficit hawks who promote Tax Cuts, alleged war opponents who back war escalations, and supposed anti-government Conservatives who press to expand the National Security state. Heck, we even have senators who famously brag of voting for things before voting against them. That said, for s...

Herman Cain at CPAC, Hiring in Iowa
As your resident lesser known Candidate tracker, here’s some recent news on the Herman Cain front. Herman Cain has hired Mark Block as his Exploratory Committee’s manager. Block was the State Director for Americans for Prosperity in Wisconsin. Cain recently took a trip Wisconsin to visit with voters and meet with Block. When asked what could potentially prevent him from making a formal announcement for President, Cain said, “Death.” Local news reported on the Cain visit...

Now Its Not Just The Gays Infiltrating CPAC, Its The Muslims
The crazy wing of the Conservative Movement has found a new reason to Boycott this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, it's the...

Hot Air v Big Peace On The USS Enterprise Story
Someone sent along a link to Ed Morrisey’s Hot Air post on a USS Enterprise video kerfuffle I haven’t been following. When I first saw Captain’s Quarters years ago, the old naval battleships in the banner left, in my opinion then, the false impession Ed was an old Navy guy with some salt in his blood. I suspect that we’ll hear defenses of Honors relying on warrior mentality and the need to bond with the crew, but this goes far enough beyond the boundar...

CPAC infiltrated by radical gays, radical Muslims
I noted last week that the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington is currently the target of a Boycott by social Conservatives over the inclusion of the gay Republican group GOProud. Now, CPAC has angered a separate segment of the Conservative Movement by allowing the conservative group Muslims for America to participate.  As Politico's Ben Smith quipped, "Who knew that creeping Sharia was so gay-friendly?" The conservative news site WorldNetDaily, which has been trum...

Creeping Jihadis Join Sodomites, Infiltrate CPAC
I don’t know why any good rock-ribbed conservative Tea Partier would even think of attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year. I mean, look at the exhibitors! Not only are there going to be Sodomites, it’s also been infiltrated by the creeping stealth global Jihad: Right-Wingers Claim Muslim Brotherhood Has Infiltrated CPAC. The right-wing site World Net Daily and conservative columnist Frank Gaffney came up with a new reason this week to hate the Conserv...

Islami extremist at CPAC 2011
Via The Jawa Report:  Islamic Extremist Suhail Khan to be featured at CPAC 2011 Frank Gaffney at Big Peace reports today on the appearance of Islamic Extremist Suhail Khan at CPAC 2011 next month. Note that Khan is on the board of the American Conservative Union (ACU), which operates CPAC and is a protege of GOP Activist Grover Norquist, who as Gaffney notes co-founded the Islamic Institute with top Al-Qaeda Fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi. Gaffney says "It's a Time to Choose for...

Should Gays Be a Part of the Conservative Movement?
Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago Activist Ryan Sorba challenged NewsReal Blog’s managing editor David Swindle to a debate about Homosexuality and Conservatism. This is the first round of what will be three rounds of debate. Each participant will have 700 words in each round. YES . By David Swindle If you masturbate then you can’t call yourself a conservative. If you eat pork or shellfish then there’s no room for you on the Right. If you’ve been divorced then you̵

GOP Still All-Or-Nothing on Health Care.
You may recall that longtime conservative advocate and former Bush II Speechwriter David Frum was excommunicated from the Conservative Movement after he suggested that implacably opposing the Affordable Care Act was strategically misguided (he argued that the GOP would have been better served by negotiating to make the bill more conservative). Frum landed on his feet, and now has some more advice for his fellow Conservatives on Health Care. Once their silly theatrical presentation on repealing t...