[CharlesWayneCT]

We’ve gone a long way if we’ve moved from opposing homosexual rights, to opposing homosexual people.

I hope we also throw out anybody who had sex outside of marriage, or ever lied, or stole, or has too many speeding tickets.

Need to be the party of the perfect, I guess. I wonder if divorced and remarried people are still OK?

[Liberty1970]

We’ve gone a long way if we’ve moved from opposing homosexual rights, to opposing homosexual people.

I agree. But they aren't there as people. They are there as part of their 'movement' to force people to accept homosexuality. Presumably there are individual homosexuals at the conference who are not part of this pro-sodomy organization, and that's fine.

To put it another way, I assume there are adulterers and burglars in the crowd at CPAC too. But if CPAC starts accepting organizations devoted to advocating adultery as normal and demanding that people just accept burglary as an alternative lifestyle, then I have a problem with that.

[OKIEDOC]

Charles it looks as tall those folks who were saying I ain't voting for McCain and we got Obama and now many of those purists are at it again. I sometimes wonder just how conservative those folks really are and if their agenda is not to cause dissent ion in the ranks. If the tea party folks who I support go astray they will guarantee that Obama gets a second and maybe a third and fourth term. It's time to take a stand for good government and better politicians who will listen to their constituents. However, shooting ourselves in the foot in 2010 and 2012 is crazy. The definition of insanity is doing the same failed thing over and over as we did in 2008. I decided to lay out of FR after the 2008 debacle because the cyberbullies had taken over and I hope this time sanity prevails. Loud do not make it right but firm pressure with a little surgar can work miracles.

[montag813]

I hope we also throw out anybody who had sex outside of marriage, or ever lied, or stole, or has too many speeding tickets.

Are adulterers, liars, thieves and speeders demanding that their behavior be held up as morally equivalent? The gays are. They can do as they please, but they have no right to redefine marriage. And who is "they" anyway? This about isn't some "race" needing 14th Amendment protections. What about Sarah MacLachlan, Anne Heche and others, who once lived as homosexual but now have families and children. Are they "lesbians", are they "straight"? What about ex-gays? The very idea that these people who practice changable sexual behaviors constitute a special status worthy of constitutional recognition should be abhorrent to every conservative. To every American.