Pro-gay rights Republican group: we've been barred from CPAC over members' sexuality

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Pro-gay rights Republican group: we've been barred from CPAC over members' sexuality

Alan Yuhas in New York
Friday 20 February 2015 19.48 GMT

A pro-gay rights Republican group contends that it has been barred from sponsorship of next week’s high-profile Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, because of the sexuality of some of its members. The group’s executive director dismissed procedural reasons cited by organizers.

Gregory Angelo said that for the third year in a row Log Cabin Republicans was being denied participation in the event, which is run by the American Conservative Union (ACU), “because we might support marriage equality and we might have some members who identify as gay”.

CPAC 2015 takes place in Washington DC from 25 to 28 February. Speakers will include senators and 2016 hopefuls Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, new Iowa senator Joni Ernst and the real-estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump.

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But the ACU, which organizes the event at which presidential hopefuls often seek to appeal to the GOP base, maintains that the Log Cabin Republicans simply never applied. A spokesman for the ACU flatly denied any bias against gay people, and provided a statement by chairman Matt Schlapp.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/20/log-cabin-republicans-gay-rights-barred-cpac-2015

[mikeysnot]

1. Please explain to us again

why you vote republican?????

[nichomachus]

5. Two words

tax breaks

[mikeysnot]

8. Well that explains

1% of the vote, but what about everyone else?

[blkmusclmachine]

2. Tough. Live by the GOP sword, die by the GOP sword.

[SheilaT]

3. What Mikesnot said.

I cannot begin to fathom why anyone who is not a white heterosexual male Protestant would even begin to consider voting Republican.

[nichomachus]

4. So, how is that "change things from the inside" working for you guys?

But at least you got your tax breaks.

[jberryhill]

6. In other news, water is wet

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Can somebody please buy these guys (and, presumably some gals) a freakin' clue?

How do they not realize who (mostly) runs the GOP nowadays and their position on GLBT equality? There are a *small* handful of Republicans whom are GLBT-friendly but none of them are in leadership roles and none of them will be writing the platform. Are a few tax breaks REALLY worth belonging to a party that will take their votes, but hate them and will not only ignore their needs (and basic humanity) but actively work against them. *SMH*

[GOLGO 13]

9. It's all about the money with these guys, right?

So then sit there with your money & take it. The deserve everything they get for siding with these devils.

[Arkana]

10. Seems to me that Jews For Hitler should probably reevaluate its priorities.