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xchrom

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Fri Apr 5, 2013, 09:34 AM Apr 2013

Meet Cleta Mitchell, the Conservative Movement's Anti-Gay Eminence Grise

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/04/meet-cleta-mitchell-the-conservative-movements-anti-gay-eminence-grise/274629/


Cleta Mitchell speaks at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. (Gage Skidmore)

In 2011, a little-known group called GOProud was a sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual marquee event for the right. A staunchly right-wing, fiscally conservative group that also promoted a pro-life message, GOProud seemed like a great fit for the event. There was just one problem: GOProud's main function was as a gay-rights group.

Enter Cleta Mitchell.

Mitchell was, and is, on the board of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. After calls from angry social-conservatives who threatened to boycott the event if GOProud was allowed to remain as a sponsor, Mitchell orchestrated a push to expel GOProud. It wasn't initially successful -- the group remained as a sponsor that year

But after that the 2011 conference, Al Cardenas succeeded David Keene as ACU president. With Mitchell's support, he called a vote of the board on whether or not GOProud should be allowed in CPAC. The board voted strongly in favor of banning the group.
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Meet Cleta Mitchell, the Conservative Movement's Anti-Gay Eminence Grise (Original Post) xchrom Apr 2013 OP
It's good that GOProud is banned from that clown show. Better reveals what ACU/CPAC is all about. GodlessBiker Apr 2013 #1
poor Cleta DURHAM D Apr 2013 #2
right? nt xchrom Apr 2013 #3
I met her in the early 70s when she was still in law school DURHAM D Apr 2013 #4
Bitter isn't a good look on her. nt xchrom Apr 2013 #5

DURHAM D

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4. I met her in the early 70s when she was still in law school
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 10:16 AM
Apr 2013

and worked with her for several years in various women's organizations. I followed her career after her move to DC through mutual friends (actually they are mostly her former friends) who just shake their head and moan about what has happened to her. All of this because her first husband was gay...

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