If this is not an oxymoron, I do not know what it is. Don’t tell that to GOProud.
According to their website, “GOProud represents gay conservatives and their allies. GOProud is committed to a traditional conservative agenda that emphasizes limited government, individual liberty, free markets and a confident foreign policy. GOProud promotes our traditional conservative agenda by influencing politics and policy at the federal level”.
The group, consisting of conservative homosexuals who broke away from the Log Cabin Republicans a few years ago because it was deemed too liberal, decided to co-sponsor The American Conservative Union’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC. But other conservative Republicans want no part of GOPround at the conference, including the Liberty Counsel’s Matt Barber, who’s threatening to organize a boycott.
Joining Barber in his opposition is Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, which is urging David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, to drop GOProud because it “supports the same radical homosexualist agenda as other GLBT organizations—which is corrupting children and tearing apart America’s moral fiber.”
Conference director Lisa De Pasquale has said she’s “satisfied” that GOProud doesn’t represent a “radical leftist agenda,” and that they should be allowed at the event. However, Keene has promised to keep GOProud from speaking at the conference and to squelch any discussion of gay rights issues, such as same-sex marriage.
