'Family Research Council' Expains Boycot of Conservative Conference

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...

FRC: Conservatives and Gays "Cannot Coexist"
[W]e continue to believe in the founding principles behind CPAC--even if some of its organizers seem to have forgotten ... FRC has chosen not to partner with a "conservative" event that places the protection of marriage on the same plane as redefining it. Would CPAC team up with the Brady Campaign which fights to restrict--if not abolish--the Second Amendment? Would it collaborate with groups who promote doubling capital gains taxes? Regardless of what CPAC organizers may believe, cons...

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...

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...

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...

U.S. Passport Application Undergoes Changes To Accomodate Same-Sex Parents
The U.S. passport application process is taking a step toward gender neutrality by dropping the words "mother" and "father" from their forms. According to a recent Fox News report, applicants will soon be required to fill out spaces labeled "Parent One" and "Parents Two," instead. Fox News reports: A statement on the State Department website noted: "These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child's parents and in recognition of different types of families."...

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...

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...

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 ...

Religious Right Outraged By Changes To Passport Application
“Only in the topsy-turvy world of left-wing Political Correctness could it be considered an ‘improvement’ for a birth-related document to provide less information about the circumstances of that birth,” Family Research Council president Tony Perkins wrote in a statement to Fox News Radio. “This is clearly designed to advance the causes of same-sex ‘marriage’ and Homosexual parenting without statutory authority, and violates the spirit if not the letter o...

Passport Forms Going Gender-Neutral
(FOXNews.com) - The State Department will replace the words “mother” and “father” on U.S. passport applications with gender-neutral terminology, FOXNews.com reported Friday. “The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father,’” said Brenda Sprague, deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services. "They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’" Sprague said the decision to remove the traditional parentin...

Heritage Foundation and Media Research Center Join CPAC Boycott
Back in November, the far-right American Principles Project declared that it would not take part in CPAC as long as GOProud, a conservative group which supports gay-rights, remains a participating organization. GOProud’s status as a “participating” organization prompted many Religious Right groups to Boycott CPAC, including: American Values; American Vision; the Capital Research Center; the Center for Military Readiness; Concerned Women for America; the Family Research Council;...

Minnesota Family Council to hold marriage amendment course for legislators
When State Legislators checked their office mailboxes Wednesday, they found an invitation to attend a Minnesota Family and Marriage Summit featuring a group that the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies as a Hate Group. The summit, to be held next week, is organized by the Minnesota Family Council and the Family Research Council and will teach legislators how to pass a Constitutional Amendment banning rights for same-sex couples. The summit includes courses for legislators such as “Bull...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

A Time to Choose for the Conservative Movement
Tonight, World Net Daily continued its pathbreaking coverage of what amounts to an assault on the Conservative Movement.  Ironically, this assault is not coming from outside the movement’s ranks.  Rather, it is being perpetrated by some of the key organizers of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next month in Washington. First, WND revealed troubling information about the apparent misappropriation of $400,000 in ACU funds , embroiling Chairman David Keene ...

World Net Daily: Homos And The Muslim Brotherhood Have Taken Over CPAC 2011
As part of their continuing campaign to destroy CPAC 2011 for allowing GOProud to participate, today World Net Daily announced that the nation's largest annual conservative conference is being secretly run by the "Muslim Brotherhood." For realz! With the Conservative Political Action Conference under fire for allowing participation by a Homosexual Activist group called GOProud and for a financial Scandal in which some $400,000 was misappropriated under the watch of current leadership, Frank Ga...

Heritage Foundation to Boycott CPAC (or, Fear of a Gay Planet)
In the latest bail-out from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the far-right creationist Climate Change denial organization known as the Heritage Foundation is joining the fundamentalist groups who are afraid of gay cooties. Similar to last year’s CPAC, more than a half dozen groups say they won’t attend the three-day forum to Protest the involvement of GOProud. Most of the groups are conservative Christian organizations such as the American Family Association or th...

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...

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...

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...