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Related: About this forumCPAC Invites Gays to Bash Putin
James KirchickThe Conservative Political Action Conference starts this week, and with it, an annual ritual that measures the movements attitude toward gay rights: Will CPAC let conservative gay groups participate?
The answer, this year, is: sort of.
Last Thursday, Log Cabin Republicans, the countrys leading gay conservative organization, sent out a blistering press release attacking CPAC for its exclusion of the group from the proceedings, which, appropriately enough, will be held at the Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center in Maryland.
As in years past, CPAC was planning to do what it had always done: ban gay conservative organizations from formal participation or sponsorship, but allow members of such organizations to purchase tickets as private individuals, thereby claiming that it was not discriminating. These are the terms that CPAC had imposed last year on the short-lived gay conservative group GOProud, a move that led to fissures within the organization and contributed to its demise.
As of last week, it appeared that this year would be no different. Make no mistake: LCR is actively being prohibited from sponsoring CPAC, Log Cabin Executive Director Gregory T. Angelo said in the release. For our organization, this has always been about contributing to CPAC as sponsors or in some recognized capacity.
But conversations between Angelo and CPAC leaders over the weekend led to a compromise that appears to have made both sides happy: Angelo will speak on a panel entitled Putins Russia: A New Cold War? He will focus on the Russian governments assault on its gay and lesbian citizens, in the form of laws that prohibit propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships to minors and prevent gays from adopting children. This will be the first time in CPACs over four-decade history that a gay organization will formally participate in its proceedings.
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CPAC Invites Gays to Bash Putin (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2015
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)1. Mind-boggling hypocrisy. nt
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)2. On the part of both CPAC and the Log Cabinites!
Gotta wonder if the CPAC poobahs asked the Log Cabinites to style their wives hair before they would be allowed to speak. Naturally, the Loggers said, "hell yeah! We love styling hair!"
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)3. Gay republicans....
makes as much sense at black white supremacists.