Posted on 02/10/2011 6:25:57 AM PST by Notary Sojac
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) said Wednesday evening she has no objection to the participation of gay Republicans at this weekend's gathering of conservatives in Washington.
Palin said she didn't see anything wrong with the participation of GOProud, a group of gay Republicans, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which runs Thursday through Saturday.
"I don't have a problem with different, diverse groups that are involved in political discourse, and having a convention to talk about what the answers are to their problems that face America," Palin said Wednesday on Fox News when asked about GOProud.
Palin isn't participating in the conference, and she's declined previous invitations, despite CPAC's role as a cattle call for possible Republican presidential candidates.
But other prominent conservatives have said they're skipping the conference. The conservative Heritage Foundation and other socially conservative groups withdrew due to the inclusion of GOProud. And with those groups out, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) followed suit. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) also declined participation, though it's unclear if that decision is linked to GOProud.
Aside from DeMint, though, the other Republicans mulling a run for president are slated to speak or participate at the conference, hoping in part to boost their standing in the closely watched straw poll of attendees.
Palin suggested that conservatives had more important issues to worry about than which groups were attending the conference.
"People are losing their jobs; they're losing homes. We're still engaged in a war," she said. "There are so many life-changing, life-and-death issues out there in front of us. You know, we'd better be concentrating on what is really important here and not going kind of tit-for-tat as people are positioning themselves for 2012."
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You got it. Heads exploding everywhere. I’m almost afraid to log onto Free Republic because I might be hit by an exploding head.
State And local legislate and codify it. Feds uphold state and local control of the issue. DC lobbyists like planned parenthood etc, stay the f out of it.
There is no protection for life, liberty, or property in America today for conservatives. You're either protected by the left wing politically correct police or you're not.
Name ONE right wing group that's protected by political correctness. You can't. There isn't one.
“They also all believed that sodomy was a serious crime and in some cases warranted the death penalty.”
Where does this fall under the protection of life liberty and property?
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Because historically whenever the homosexuals take over a culture it destroys itself. The founders were educated enough to know this. That is where protection of life liberty and property comes into it.
It goes along with the whole degeneracy thing.
IMO, Sarah will not run for president yet.
She’s doing what needs to be done at this time.
For me:
Don’t try to make YOUR religion law of the land.
Use YOUR own money for abortion.
I don’t care what sexual preferences you have.
Good post. It’s all about whose ox is gored, I guess.
The smoking nazis, for example, would happily make an exception to government intrusion of government enacted a bill to send every smoker to Mars.
Then you should never make a personal attack speaking as though what you are posting is the truth. I don’t believe I have ever posted to you, so it was cheap shot and a lie.
You have just admitted that.
You see what you just posted is pretty close to my beliefs. Abortion should be overturned and a person’s right to live should be reinstated. Government sanctioned killing is still killing.
I just want people on our side to stop caving. We just end up with more of the same and it does nothing to promote confidence that a person we choose to lead us “gets it”.
My scorn isn’t for just one current potential candidate on this issue. It is for the whole lot of them and their cowardice.
Lord, I hope that’s not ‘deviant.’
There is NO candidate on the national scene who is going to agree 110% down the line with every view expressed in JimRob's "charter" threads.
I don't hate Palin, I'll vote for her if she's the nominee, but I see her good and bad points like all the rest (except Mitt and Huck, no good points worth mentioning there).
The issue isn’t the sexual preference of some individuals who intend to attend CPAC. There is no “homosexuals not welcome” sign on the doors to the convention hall. The objection is to homosexuals forming a group and identifying themselves as such. They are not doing so because they live in fear of persecution and need to group together for protection. They are doing so in order to advance an agenda which is anti-conservative in nature. They seek not their constitutionally protected right to live as individuals and advance conservative principles, but to coerce the GOP into abandoning its defence of marriage and the military. As with the Log Cabin Republicans, this latest group’s real agenda is to embarass conservatives and insert a wedge issue into an event which should be an opportunity for unification. No conservative should support this type of factionalism with the conservative movement.
I think Palin, coming from a free-for-all charismatic/evangelical background is not a natural conservative, rather she’s a religious one. This is why some conservatives have for years been suspicious of the religious right...as they seem prone to revert to liberal positions, in the name of Jesus...
Some coming from that camp (like Jim Baker’s son) have reacted against (perceived) gay bashing, to “reach out” to the poor rejected homosexual...and confused personal compassion (which is all well and good) for a public-policy stance, which must be firmly against “gay rights” if religious liberty is to be maintained as a fundamental right.
George W. Bush is certainly an evangelical...but no one said he was a wise one....or a Conservative (on issues other than pro-life). Palin is certainly even more of an evangelical, but also not necessarily very wise....(look at her kids...), however, she is interested in small government—but may be being influenced by libertarian libertinism....(amoralism)...which is a shame.
I think she’s been on the speaking tour too long. She should go home, and go to church...and learn a few (more) things.
Interesting point about divorce being more harmful to conservative society than gays could ever be.
I totally agree with you.
But so many people are divorced, they can’t very well get hysterical about it.
Gays are an extremely small percentage of the population. Of that small percentage a small percentage are activists who promote the gay agenda.
Instead of blaming gays, we ought to blame spineless government people who go along with this.
It’s easier just to bash gays, I guess.
Thanks I just voted for Sarah Palin and she’s at 63.90% and Herman Cain is at 4.89%!
Nothing some strong churches and local governments can prevent from happening. My point is state and local govt best accomplishes social conservative goals.
Lost track, but I might point out that someone brought Jesus into the discussion.
Jesus attacked adultery on several occasions but he never once mentioned homosexuality.
Let he who hasn’t committed adultery cast the first stone.
So why didnt Jesus look up into the tree at Zaccheus and tell him to go and sin no more? Why did he take the guy,considered to be worst than the worst sinner in town, and go and eat at his house? Eating at someones home,was a community validation and honor to the person of that home. That is why the Pharisees freaked! But look at the effect of Jesus being in a friendship relationship with zaccheus, he said.... If I have cheated anyone (in the original language it means, “if I have, and I have” ) I will return 2 and 1/2 times. Do you understand what that means? The entire town just hit the lottery, everyone was blessed by action of Jesus. Do you see the difference? God Loves you so much He is willing to trade His perfect sons life for yours or a log cabin republicans EVEN while they are still in sin. THAT is the good news.
May God not use the same size measuring cup of His mercy on you that you use on others.
Dam right girl. Keep your eye on the ball people.
Explicit support/endorsement of homosexuality has no business in a conservative movement or in the platform of a conservative party.
I agree with you. (which you could have read in my post)
But I really get sick of reading threads where FReepers continually insult individual gay people with insults. One is not allowed here to call ethnic groups by crude obscene names, but it’s very upsetting to me that gays are allowed to be called such things. Sorry, but it is wrong and offensive. And beneath a G-dfearing site.
If a conservative group of adults with Down Syndrome were trying to make themselves heard, would FReepers really call them Idiots, Retards, and Morons?? That is EXACTLY what they are doing to gays.
My comment has nothing to do with the aims of the gay agenda, which, again, I do not support.
If she keeps talking like this, she’ll get banned from FR.
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This is too poetic!
Now what moral is this….
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket or don’t throw the baby out with the bath water??
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