It’s cute, because they think they’re going to be missed. Hi, Religious Right, what have we been telling you? That you are, and always have been, useful idiots for the Republican Party? Yeah, you still are:
Two of the nation’s premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference in February because a homosexual activist group, GOProud, has been invited.
“We’ve been very involved in CPAC for over a decade and have managed a couple of popular sessions. However, we will no longer be involved with CPAC because of the organization’s financial mismanagement and movement away from conservative principles,” said Tom McClusky, senior vice president for FRC Action.
“CWA has decided not to participate in part because of GOProud,” CWA President Penny Nance told WND.
FRC and CWA join the American Principles Project, American Values, Capital Research Center, the Center for Military Readiness, Liberty Counsel, and the National Organization for Marriage in withdrawing from CPAC. In November, APP organized a boycott of CPAC over the participation of GOProud.
Wait, it gets funnier:
“Excellent. It is gratifying to see FRC and CWA respond appropriately to CPAC’s moral sellout of allowing GOProud as a sponsor,” said Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, the nation’s best-known organization dedicated exclusively to opposing the homosexual political agenda.
“By bringing in GOProud, CPAC was effectively saying moral opposition to homosexuality is no longer welcome in the conservative movement,” said LaBarbera. “Would CPAC bring in an organization specifically devoted to promoting abortion and pretend it’s conservative?” LaBarbera has formerly participated in CPAC, but said he may protest the conference this year.
I’m sure they’ll notice Peter’s absence in the CPAC leather dungeon, but otherwise, they’ll plod on through.
The rest of the article features Mat Staver of Liberty, whining, so be sure to miss that.
[h/t Blue Texan]
Porno Pete, had about 20 people at his Truth conference this Summer and 15 of those in attendance were spies from Truth Wins Out and other groups.
I am glad that Liberty Counsel, FRC and Concerned Women for America are determined to become as irrelevant as Porno Pete.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3ZO6-0DJoo
Not too surprising. The bigots really cannot deal in the marketplace of ideas. The fact that GOProud will be at an event is enough to have them shaking in their diapers. What a bunch of babies!
It must be tough to be a hard line bigot who believes even the most trivial of inevitable concessions to gays is a major battle lost.
Good riddance. Take the rest of their social con buddies and beat it.
My money’s still on GOPout getting the boot.
Oh yeah. If enough SoCon wingnuts b***h and cry, they’ll get their way.