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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...

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;...

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...

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...

Lesbian Episcopal Priests 'Married' by Mass. Bishop
Two of the U.S. Episcopal Church's most high-profile Lesbian priests were married to each other in a ceremony presided by Massachusetts Episcopal Bishop M. Thomas Shaw. Mally Lloyd is an official in the Episcopal diocese of Massachusetts and Katherine Ragsdale is dean of the Episcopal Divinity School. The ceremony took place on New Year's Day in Boston, according to the Patriot Ledger. Shaw, a longtime supporter of Gay Marriage, gave his parish priests permission to perform same-sex marriage...

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...

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...

For the record, this does bother me
I usually, as a rule, do not link to WorldNetDaily — But this story here stands out a bit…. Via Farah’s Site: WASHINGTON - Another Headache has emerged for the largest annual gathering of Conservatives slated for next month. 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 Gaf...

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,...

FRC Seeks Supernatural Intervention To Reverse America's Embrace of "Perverted Sexual Practices"
America's moral decline is directly related to His people's public and private acts of disobedience that dishonor God and His eternal laws. Scripture warns that the shedding of innocent blood (e.g., Abortion) and perverted sexual practices are abominations that call for Biblical judgment. America is now under such judgment. Can we find our way back? God has only one prescription. With the traditional American family in near statistical free fall, Homosexual Activists persist in their destructive...

'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...

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...

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...

Conservatives and gays and Muslims -- oh my
Conservatives AND GAYS AND MuslimS -- OH MY.... The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), arguably the nation's largest annual right-wing gathering, kicks off in about a month. Under normal circumstances, the buzz would be about the speakers' list and the size of the crowd. And that would make sense. This should be an especially big year for CPAC -- emboldened Republican Party Leaders will be on hand to boast about their right-wing agenda, and a legion of likely presidential candida...

Cenk Uygur: Ann Coulter vs. Sarah Palin
I recently interviewed Chris Barron of GOProud, a gay conservative organization that believes that the Republican Party is welcoming of gay Americans. The issue was that some prominent conservative organizations were boycotting the largest conservative conference in the country because they allowed GOProud to attend. Seems very welcoming. The interview was heated (you can see it here). I think it is absurd to vote Republican if you're gay. The party ran their whole campaign against gay America...

Ann Coulter Calls MSNBC Host 'Retarded'
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter posted a tweet this week, encouraging followers to watch her Republican colleague be interviewed by a "retarded" MSNBC host. "Great video: head of GOProud interviewed by retarded person on MSNBC," Coulter wrote, providing a link to this interview, in which Christopher Barron of gay Republican group GOProud defends his conservative credentials to Cenk Uygur, after invitees of the Conservative Political Action Conference decided to Boycott the event due to it...

Ann Coulter: Cenk Uygur Is Retarded For Attacking GOProud's Chris Barron
This might not play well with Mama Grizzly, who famously called for the firing of Rahm Emmanuel for using the word "retarded." Labels: Ann Coulter, Christopher Barron, GOProud, homocons, language, Quislings New! Share this on Facebook: Share ...

Wendy Wright: Theres No Discrimination in America, Except for that Committed by Homosexual Activists
Wendy Wright, the president of Concerned Women for America, in the conservative publication The American Thinker ridicules the Obama Administration’s claims that Bigotry and inequality still exist in the U.S., but goes on to claim that the Religious Right represents the actual Victim of Discrimination at the hands of “Homosexual Activists.” Such fatuous allegations are nothing new from Wright, who participated in the “Green Dragon” series that believes the environme...

LGBT Groups Look Beyond Congress, Will Focus On Courts, States While GOP Has Majority
LGBT Groups Look Beyond Congress, Will Focus On Courts, States While GOP Has Majority The take away from Amanda Terkel’s piece on the outlook for LGBT initiatives for the next two years is that most of the action will be happening in the states and the courts, since the Republican majority in the 112th Congress is showing little interest in taking up equality Legislation: One branch of government that could hold major victories (or upsets) for the LGBT community: the judicial system. Th...

From super-predators to ACORN & public employee unions--the evolution of conservative demons today
The conservative panic over super-predators and an out-of-control underclass crime-wavetrunami turned out to be a False Alarm. Instead, it was super-rich criminals on Wall Street who brought America down. But the underlying conservative narrative did not die, which is why the "recovery" is doing more to destroy America than even the horrendous crash did. Just after Christmas, I wrote a diary spinning off from a piece by Mike Konczal, "The Conservative World View and Prison Populations, ...

The Honors List
The proponents of a lax Military professed shock this week at an illustration of it, after news reports emerged that the inaptly named naval captain Owen Honors had participated in "raunchy and ribald" videos aboard ship. The odd admixture of relativism and rigidity that now defines Political Correctness in the Military guaranteed his firing, though it took public exposure several years after the event to trigger the termination. Obviously, Honors has dishonored himself. But it is not at all cle...

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...

DADT: The Aftermath
As expected, Congress voted to Repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy concerning Homosexuals serving openly in the Military and President Obama signed the Repeal into law. Despite a lot of misgivings and reasons for leaving the policy in place, some of which I made here here, Congress has commanded the entire Department of Defense to implement a new personnel policy—even as our Military fights two wars. This change will not be without repercussions. I have no special crystal ball, but h

More Religious Right Seminars for Elected Leaders
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 “Bully...