Posted on 02/19/2010 10:29:21 AM PST by Pyro7480
Not only are the members of GOProud, a gay Republican organization, in the political minority, but they are also very much in the Republican minority.
Ever since it signed on as a co-sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference, this 9-month-old organization has provoked controversy.
Not far from the GOProud booth, several men on Thursday handed out green leaflets that read “TO KEEP OUR HONOR CLEAN!” The leaflet, created by the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, is a four-page argument against gays serving in the military. The pamphlet, in fact, calls for “a moral revolution.”
“We co-signed a letter to the organizers of CPAC asking that GOProud not be allowed to cosponsor the event,” said C. Preston Noell III, spokesman for TFP. “An organization that promotes homosexuality is opposed to family as God made it — one man and one woman.”
...“This is the pre-eminent gathering of conservatives in the country, so how could we not be a part of it?” said Chris Barron, chairman of GOProud’s board. “The conservative movement is a large one and a diverse one.”
...While CPAC and its organizers may not bar gay organizations, it’s hard to deny that many in attendance do have a problem with homosexuality. John Ritchie, who works for the student action arm of TFP, says he believes being gay is “a violation of God’s law, a violation of natural law and a violation of common sense.”
...While Barron may subscribe to the idea of a “big tent,” those at TFP abhor this idea. Ritchie calls GOProud “a leak in the tent” and the “antithesis of family values”
“I’m not in favor of a big tent,” Noell said. “We need to pick and choose our friends carefully.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cqpolitics.com ...
Does GoProud subscribe to the big tent theory based on pole size?
What? No bestiality or NAMBLA wing of the GOP?
What happened to the old Log Cabin Republicans? Have they morphed into this?
Dumb remark.
Big tent not Circus tent.
The one at #5?
Yeah, well it doesn't need to be that diverse.
“I’m not in favor of a big tent,” Noell said. “We need to pick and choose our friends carefully.”
Abso-friggin’-lutely!
Relevant to your interests ping.
Gay Republican = turd in punchbowl
Good post.
Let the ‘Rats have ‘em. We don’t need ‘em.
I do believe that ejonesie22 has a graphic for that.
The only reason I retain membership in the CA Republican Party is to minimize any hassles that might ensue in voting for conservative candidates in state primaries. I will donate to these conservative candidates as I see fit, but will never, ever again give to that wayward party at any level.
That’s it!
Time to change my registration to Independent. My former party of choice has left me.
Despise the sodomy act but do love gays. They’re great fun and make excellent friends. Then there’s the militant gays who are something else altogether.
“What? No bestiality or NAMBLA wing of the GOP?”
there’s the grover norquist pro-islamic wing
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