It is always fun to watch the wingnuts attack moderate Republicans. It's even more fun when the wingnuts begin to attack each other - something that is occurring because of the decision by the Conservative Political Action Conference ("CPAC") to allow the activist group GOProud, i.e., gay Republicans, to be a sponsor of the 2010 CPAC gathering. (Personally, I view the CPAC event as a coven of crazies). The dispute is yet one more indication that the GOP is increasingly becoming a religious party where unrelenting hatred of gays is a litmus test for party membership. Obviously, by including gays, GOProud fails this test for who is a conservative and who can be a Republican. The Christianist faux news site OneNewsNow has details of the apoplexy that has taken over some of the most delusional of the "family values" organizations. Here are some highlights:*
A pro-family leader says organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference are engaging in "moral surrender" by allowing a Republican homosexual activist group to co-sponsor the prestigious event. Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr., and Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver have sent a letter to American Conservative Union chairman David Keene, warning him they will boycott CPAC 2010 if the homosexual activist group GOProud is allowed to remain as a co-sponsor of the February event.
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The letter, which was signed by other conservative Christian leaders, asks Keene to respond by 5:00 p.m. (Eastern) today. Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, was one of the first social conservative leaders to sign the letter. He believes CPAC's embrace of GOProud is symptomatic of a broader problem -- what he calls the "dumbing down of the pro-family stand in the public policy arena."
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Glenn says CPAC fails to realize that the agenda of homosexual activist groups like GOProud has not only negative social and moral consequences, but also negative economic consequences.
A pro-family leader says organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference are engaging in "moral surrender" by allowing a Republican homosexual activist group to co-sponsor the prestigious event. Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr., and Liberty Counsel founder and chairman Mat Staver have sent a letter to American Conservative Union chairman David Keene, warning him they will boycott CPAC 2010 if the homosexual activist group GOProud is allowed to remain as a co-sponsor of the February event.
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The letter, which was signed by other conservative Christian leaders, asks Keene to respond by 5:00 p.m. (Eastern) today. Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association of Michigan, was one of the first social conservative leaders to sign the letter. He believes CPAC's embrace of GOProud is symptomatic of a broader problem -- what he calls the "dumbing down of the pro-family stand in the public policy arena."
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Glenn says CPAC fails to realize that the agenda of homosexual activist groups like GOProud has not only negative social and moral consequences, but also negative economic consequences.
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It's rather laughable that Glenn alleges a "dumbing down" of a group that has already driven out most rational, thinking participants, leaving creationists and other knuckle draggers as the main body of the organization.
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