GOP Candidates and Elected Officials Appear with White Suprmacists at CPAC

If one wants to see the face of hate in America, CPAC provides quite a cavalcade of haters ranging from anti-gay extremists to white supremacists. And what's really frightening is that Santorum, Gingrich and Romney are busy pandering to them - as are many others in the Republican Party. Would that average Americans would wake up and pay attention to the vile groups and individuals who now call so many of the shots in the GOP. These individuals wrap themselves in religion and patriotism but spew nothing but contempt for many of their fellow countryman. In my view, these individuals and groups are a clear and present danger to constitutional government and religious freedom in this country. So why isn't the mainstream media telling the public about this? Right Wing Watch has a number of posts that ought to alarm thinking Americans. Here is a sampling:

Rick Santorum Just Had Dinner with White Nationalist Bob Vandervoort.

You’ll recall that Vandervoort, the executive director of Pro-English, was previously the leader of the white nationalist group Chicagoland Friends of the American Renaissance. He is scheduled to appear at a panel tomorrow morning at CPAC along with two Republican members of Congress and the Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach.

Despite all of this, Rick Santorum just had dinner with Vandervoort. We can hope that Santorum did not yet know Vandervoort’s full background. Now that he does, will he denounce white nationalists, including Vandervoort, and say they have no place within the GOP and conservative movement?

CPAC: Anti-Muslim Activist James Lafferty Says He's 'Proud' of Attacks against Mosques

The Conservative Political Action Conference panel “Islamic Law in America: How the Obama Justice Department Is Selling Us Out,” featured numerous anti-Muslim speakers including Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Ilaria Pantano and James Lafferty of the Virginia Anti-Sharia Task Force. Lafferty, whose wife Andrea runs the Traditional Values Coalition, dedicated his speech to his activism against mosques in his community and a Muslim Republican’s candidacy for the state House of Delegates.

Lafferty told the guests that “we are being outgunned by them, literally and figuratively” and claimed, “This is a spiritual war we are fighting.” At one point in his talk, Lafferty described a Justice Department “hate crimes summit” he attended. He expressed pride in the fact that most of the mosques that had been attacked were in the South.

CPAC: Austin Ruse Condemns Efforts to Stop Violence against LGBT Community

During a CPAC panel on supposed U.S. spending “to promote abortion and homosexuality worldwide,” Austin Ruse of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Initiative (C-Fam), attacked protections for people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity in United Nations studies on violence and execution. Ruse first lamented that an initially-removed reference to sexual orientation was restored to a resolution condemning summary, extrajudicial and arbitrary executions, and went on to bemoan a decision by the Human Rights Council to study “discriminatory laws and practices and acts of violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, in all regions of the world.” He argued that such a resolution is “just the nose of the camel under the tent” and lashed out at supporters of LGBT rights, maintaining that “their theory of international law is that it’s done by lying, coercion and trickery.”

And naturally, despite all the hatred and intolerance being spewed and disseminated, these folks pat themselves on the back as "godly Christians." No wonder the younger generation is fleeing organized religion.