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Related: About this forumGOProud sneaks into CPAC
Though it was snubbed by the conference, the gay Republican group will be on a panel in the same building
BY JILLIAN RAYFIELD
Though the gay Republican group GOProud was once again snubbed by the Conservative Political Action Conference, members of the group will still be in the building, rather ironically holding a panel on how to make the right more tolerant toward gays and lesbians.
From the National Journal:
Sure, they will be holding a panel in the same building at the same time, but they arent officially part of CPAC. Thats because CPACa yearly gathering of whos who in the conservative movementdid not invite GOProud to participate. The group is getting the chance to be on site, however, because one of the CPAC hosts, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is sponsoring a panel called A Rainbow on the Right: Growing the Coalition, Bringing Tolerance Out of the Closet.
The history of CPAC and GOProud has been fraught with problems. The gay group was invited to participate in the 2010 and 2011 conferences, despite an outcry from plenty of antigay participants. And the reason GOProud did not get an invite this year is disputable. CPAC Chairman Al Cardenas told radio station 630 WMAL that the group just didnt behave well in the past.
The history of CPAC and GOProud has been fraught with problems. The gay group was invited to participate in the 2010 and 2011 conferences, despite an outcry from plenty of antigay participants. And the reason GOProud did not get an invite this year is disputable. CPAC Chairman Al Cardenas told radio station 630 WMAL that the group just didnt behave well in the past.
The groups exclusion from the conference has caused some backlash amongst conservatives, who want to push the Republican party to be more inclusive.
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http://www.salon.com/2013/03/13/goproud_sneaks_into_cpac/
Link to full National Journal article:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/how-one-gay-conservative-group-landed-a-spot-at-cpac-despite-being-uninvited-20130313
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GOProud sneaks into CPAC (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2013
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For the life of me I'll never understand why a gay person would ever be a Republican.
summerschild
Mar 2013
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tanyev
(42,613 posts)1. Good luck with that, GOProud.
summerschild
(725 posts)2. For the life of me I'll never understand why a gay person would ever be a Republican.
Call themselves GOProud and yet have so little self-respect as to clamor after people who despise them?
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)3. I am a Gay and I never understood that either...
and I know a couple, I do not get it at all. It must be a money thing, money comes first to some Gay folks too, before their civil rights even.
sakabatou
(42,174 posts)4. Neither can I. Same with other minorities.