OK - I admit that's probably a bit uncharitable, but it points up a problem with GoProud being a sponsor at CPAC.
For the past few weeks, conservative bloggers have used every means possible to justify GoProud - a group of people who self-identify by the manner in which they engage in sex, being included as a sponsor (or whatever) at CPAC. Some of these bloggers have derided the groups that have chosen to not take the third leg off of Reagan's stool, which is social issues. As long as GoProud proclaimed fiscal conservatism, we were to ignore the fact that they, allow me say this again, self-identify by the manner in which they have sex.
If the people of CPAC think a self-professed group of homosexuals is a good match, what's going to happen next year if groups such as "Fiscal Conservatives for Abortion" or "Polygamists for Economic Conservatism" wish to attend? How about "Unwed Mothers on Welfare for Responsible Government"? Granted, those examples are on the absurd side, but it points out that social issues are not separate from economic issues.
GoProud is a group of people whose sole goal is to subvert the core institutions of our culture. They do not want equal rights, they want special rights. And layered on top of this is their need for society as a whole to approve of their lifestyle.
Can you really say that a group who supports forced tolerance by indoctrination of children in schools, repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and forced hiring practices, is the kind of group that should be welcome at CPAC?
While I can appreciate the attendees of CPAC wanting to be inclusive and welcoming, it is really nothing more than furthering the goals of the homosexual agenda. It is giving tacit approval to a lifestyle that is physically and emotionally unwholesome and unhealthy, as well as morally unsound.
The individuals that belong to this group are more than welcome at a conservative gathering. A "group" that identifies, say it together folks, by the manner in which they engage in sex, should not.
From Erik Erickson of Red State
This is Too Much For Me
That's what happens when you "go along to get along," Erik[...]I have, for me, shown an amazing amount of restraint in keeping my mouth shut on an issue about which I can stay silent no longer — GOProud and CPAC.
[...]As someone who spent time trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, I accept this as conclusive proof that, while it is a Republican organization, GOProud is not a conservative organization. read the rest
Excerpt from letter to CPAC from co-signing organizations American Values, Liberty Counsel and the National Organization for Marriage
Quote of the Day[...]We have examined closely GOProud’s mission and its behavior since its inception, and can only conclude that the organization’s purposes are fundamentally incompatible with a movement that has long embraced the ideals of family and faith in a thriving civil society.
Needless to say, we are deeply persuaded that a thriving civil society is an indispensable bulwark against the relentless expansion of government, a phenomenon that has gripped much of the Western world and helped to fuel the present fiscal and economic crisis. read the entire letter
From Mark of Ordered Liberty
"Conservatives need to stand for conservative principles, not for political victories that result in the destruction of those principles."
