Tea Party Nation on GOProud @ CPAC: "GOProud is a disturbing group ~not a part of this movement "

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Coming out at CPAC
Posted by Judson Phillips on February 9, 2011 at 11:14am in Tea Party Nation Forum

CPAC is starting tomorrow and guess who is coming out at CPAC? It is GOProud, the gay GOP group.

GOProud is a disturbing group. First, they are not conservative. Second they are trying to speak for both the conservative movement and the Tea Party movement. Immediately after the election last year, GOProud, along with a couple of minor members of Tea Party Patriots came out with a massive pronouncement about what the new GOP majority in the House should do. This missive of theirs was written as if they spoke for the Tea Party movement.

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GOProud, which is not now, nor has ever been a conservative or a Tea Party group, publicly joined CPAC as a sponsor. A lot of conservatives left. World Net Daily is boycotting CPAC. Heritage is not going to be there. Concerned Women for America, the Family Research Council, the Center for Military Readiness and Liberty Counsel are all passing on CPAC. A lot of conservative groups are telling CPAC no.

Is GOProud a Republican group? Sure. Anyone can be a Republican. The GOP has a big tent that runs from the far right to the left. Just because you are a Republican does not make you a conservative.

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We conservatives have the right to say who is a part of this movement and who is not. We also have the right to say who speaks for this movement and who does not. GOProud is not a part of this movement and does not speak for this movement. Those who organize CPAC should be careful. If they keep moving in the direction they are going, they may not be a part of this movement in the future either.

http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/coming-out-at-cpac?id=3355873%3ATopic%3A586707&page=1#comments


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John Avlon at CNN Commentaries has more:

Gay group in conservatives' gathering splits GOP

New York (CNN) -- The Conservative Political Action Conference's annual Washington convention this week is not where you'd expect to find a new front in the gay civil rights movement. But that's going to be the story this week at CPAC.

America has been going through a gay civil rights movement for more than a decade. One measure of its success is that it has finally reached the Republican Party.

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Last year, former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman came out. These stands have exposed fundamental fault lines within the conservative coalition between libertarians and social conservatives, between a new generation and the old.

That's where CPAC comes in. This year, among the 50 co-sponsors of the event is a gay conservative group known as GOProud. Members believe in conservative principles from fiscal discipline to national security -- but they are openly gay, and this is apparently unacceptable in the eyes of some of their chosen political tribe.

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Here's what's certain: Opposition to a gay group's participation in a conservative conference will look as bad in the eyes of history as those who resisted the last great civil rights movement. We evolve to form a more perfect union.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/09/avlon.cpac.gay.rights/index.html

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1. And what will they say when the Republicans give the teabaggers the same blowoff? n/t