Social Conservatives Boycott CPAC Over Gay Groups, Andrew Breitbart To DJ Party?

by Frances Martel | 12:07 pm, January 8th, 2011

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After tensions came to a boiling point last year when a speaker was booed off stage for preaching against gays in his speech, several conservative groups are planning to boycott this years Conservative Political Action Committee over the inclusion of gay conservative groups at the conference, including the Family Research Council and the Heritage Foundation. But not all conservatives are upset with the move– Andrew Breitbart, for one, is throwing a party.

The Family Research Council, Heritage Foundation, and American Family Association have canceled their tickets to CPAC– by far one of the largest conventions of its sort in the nation– this year, the LA Times reports, over the increased inclusion of gay conservative groups like GOProud and other socially liberal and libertarian organizations. CPAC also refused to sponsor a panel on the virtues of male-female marriage, much to these groups’ chagrin. According to the Times, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins explained to supporters in an email about their withdrawal from the event that “conservatives and homosexuals cannot coexist in a movement predicated on social values,” and as such their group no longer had a place in CPAC. Meanwhile, Heritage Foundation vice president for communications Mike Gonzales told the newspaper that, when it comes to conservative values, “you can’t pick one and not the other,” referring to economic and social values.

The offending groups, meanwhile, seem to be taking it in stride, particularly GOProud, the gay conservative group which has been invited to CPAC twice in its two-year existence and reports to have grown since then to a whopping 10,000 members. CPAC organizers, meanwhile, responded that, while lamentable, they were not willing to exclude gay conservative groups to appease the socially conservative factions offended, and the conference is expected to attract a good 10,000 attendees anyway, among them CPAC 2010 MVP Andrew Breitbart, who seems to be planning to enter this year’s event with a more peaceful disposition:

“The point is to welcome people into the ‘big tent,’ ” Breitbart said Friday. Last week, Breitbart tweeted that he planned to throw a party for gay conservatives at CPAC.

“I’m working on getting a venue,” he said. “The first annual Roy Cohn CPAC Breitbart Homocon Welcoming 80′s Extravaganza. I’m thinking of DJ-ing.”

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SWWT

About damn time.
Atticus Draco

“The Family Research Council, Heritage Foundation, and American Family Association have canceled their tickets to CPAC”

gay!
Harry Flashman

Those “socially conservative groups” will boycott themselves into meaningless obscurity unless they get a grip on the fact that, as I’ve often said, gays are here to stay. Get over it and move on.

This is a telling statement:

“conservatives and homosexuals cannot coexist in a movement predicated on social values,”

So…being gay automatically excludes someone from belief in God, the Constitution, the family, that casual abortion is an abomination? The argument is as ridiculous as the agrument against gays serving in the military.

Puh-leeze.

Check your Westboro Baptist Church calender hanging on your wall. it’s 2011, not 1120. The left jumps on your puritanical idiotic stance and paints all of us conservative Christians with your nasty little brush.

How about welcoming a new ally in conservatism instead of acting like bigoted fools?
PBerg

What a bunch of Extremist idiots ! Why don’t they ask themselves WWJD? What makes them think that Family values include bigoted hate?

They are Already losing their importance in American religion, thank God.

ps, Harry— “casual abortion’ ? If you think any female willingly and casually chooses to use scraping out her guts as casual birth control, you do not know what you are talking about ! do not let the Religious fanatics frame your views !
Harry Flashman

PBerg:

A recent study found that 44% of pregnancies in New York end with abortion.

While the procedure is complicated (as are all invasive procedures) I’d say that numbers like that reflect a casual attitude towards abortion. That being said, I also didn’t mean to imply that each individual decision was casual. I was talking about societal issues, not individuals.

I should have made myself clearer.

And, by the way, if you read my comments here you’ll find that although I’m a conservative Christian I’m in no way influenced by the far right.
CosmosDan

Is Brietbart wearing that leather mask and harness to DJ this party?
BlackWidow

Harry I would love to know what study you are are referring to (A recent study found that 44% of pregnancies in New York end with abortion). It can’t be true as that would be almost half of ALL pregancies in the state. Unbelieveable.
SWWT

Meant to say that it’s about damn time conservatives are starting to be more accepting towards gays. WWJD.
BlackWidow

I can understand why gays want to be Republicans as they probably identify with all the platforms of the party. Why should they not belong to the party just because they are gay. Many people think that they should leave the party but I think they need to stay and fight for their place there. The hell with those idiots that do not want them.
CosmosDan

BlackWidow said:
Harry I would love to know what study you are are referring to (A recent study found that 44% of pregnancies in New York end with abortion). It can’t be true as that would be almost half of ALL pregancies in the state. Unbelieveable.

It might be unplanned pregnancies. Which would mean 57% of unplanned pregnancies are carried to term.
Atticus Draco

BlackWidow said:
Harry I would love to know what study you are are referring to (A recent study found that 44% of pregnancies in New York end with abortion). It can’t be true as that would be almost half of ALL pregancies in the state. Unbelieveable.

Do 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortions?
valkyrie101

Atticus Draco said:
Do 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortions?

That’s more humane than letting them be born, and then telling them they are on their own for medical care.
CosmosDan

Atticus Draco said:
Do 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortions?

and it says

The headline that 41% of all New York City pregnancies end in abortions is at best iffy, if not inaccurate, as the statistic measures outcomes and do not control for residence.

It does make you wonder about birth control though. It is usually readily available.
Harry Flashman

Black Widow:

I just read that statistic a few days ago and now I can’t find the source.

I didn’t make it up, just so you know. I should have found it again before I posted it, but like I usually do, but, like I said, I can’t find it now.

Sorry. Until I find it I have to stand corrected and withdraw it.
lazzzlo

I’m not going to get involved in this conversation other than to point out the study I believe Harry was referencing:

Figure 4.7 Live Births, Induced Terminations,
and Spontaneous Terminations of Pregnancy
by Age of Woman,
New York City, 2009
Over 225,000 pregnancy outcomes were reported
in New York City in 2009. Approximately 56%
were live births, 39% were induced terminations,
and 5% were spontaneous terminations (fetal
deaths). The proportion of pregnancies ending
in an induced termination is the highest among
younger women, and is about 28% at age 30. For
women under the age of 25, more pregnancies
end in induced termination than in a live birth or
spontaneous termination.
All induced and spontaneous terminations,
regardless of gestational age or weight, are required
to be reported. However, these numbers depend
on the agency resources available to perform
outreach to the reporting sites.

SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS 2009
THE CITY OF NEW YORK (Pages 84-88)
Gasket

Harry Flashman said:
The offending groups, meanwhile, seem to be taking it in stride, particularly GOProud, the gay conservative group which has been invited to CPAC twice in its two-year existence and reports to have grown since then to a whopping 10,000 members. CPAC organizers, meanwhile, responded that, while lamentable, they were not willing to exclude gay conservative groups to appease the socially conservative factions offended, and the conference is expected to attract a good 10,000 attendees anyway, among them CPAC 2010 MVP Andrew Breitbart, who seems to be planning to enter this year’s event with a more peaceful disposition:

Well said. It’s the best thing CPAC could do. I normally had a little respect for the Heritage Foundation but not anymore after this.

SWWT said:
Meant to say that it’s about damn time conservatives are starting to be more accepting towards gays. WWJD.

True. Where will the social cons go? Nowhere else. If anything, the conservatives can attract more independents to their camp who are being forced to tolerate democrats who are much more tolerant in diversity and liberal in social issues. .
bundesheer

Gay republican lol? Like a jew voting for hitler. Not a good idea!
bealzebubba

Harry Flashman said:
Those “socially conservative groups” will boycott themselves into meaningless obscurity unless they get a grip on the fact that, as I’ve often said, gays are here to stay. Get over it and move on.

This is a telling statement:

“conservatives and homosexuals cannot coexist in a movement predicated on social values,”

So…being gay automatically excludes someone from belief in God, the Constitution, the family, that casual abortion is an abomination? The argument is as ridiculous as the agrument against gays serving in the military.

Puh-leeze.

Check your Westboro Baptist Church calender hanging on your wall. it’s 2011, not 1120. The left jumps on your puritanical idiotic stance and paints all of us conservative Christians with your nasty little brush.

How about welcoming a new ally in conservatism instead of acting like bigoted fools?

Harry wins. Close this thread
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greg454

“Gay republican lol? Like a jew voting for hitler. Not a good idea!”

—I don’t remember Bush sending the gays to concentration camps, do you? In fact, it was during the Bush administration that gays got their own TV channel (LOGO), their first openly gay ambassador and his partner to Romania (David Hormel I think), same-sex marriage in a bunch of places, and a great economy that allowed them to go shopping, which is the whole point of being an American (other than freedom, of course).

In fact, gays who vote democratic are like blacks who vote democratic, they’re voting for the plantation. They’re voting to be house slaves within the DNC, a party that raises spending, raises spending, promises to deliver everything yet delivers poverty and social strife. Thus, gays are better off voting GOP, at least that way they can keep their taxes low and if they live outside of New York and California, buy a gun and use it for self-defense with less red tape than in those criminal-friendly places.

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/01/laura-ingraham-gets-politically-correct.html
scootrbum

Even the GOP is starting to turn against the idiots. It must be the end times!
http://none pyrope

Log Cabin Republicans.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

With Ron Paul winning the straw poll last year and the acceptance of GOProud this year, I’m glad to see conservatism in America becoming more libertarian.