Cross-posted by the blogger that American Conservative Union Foundation’s Millie Hallow called “sometimes humorous, often flippant, and just right of center”, Jesse Hathaway of Athens Runaway

At CPAC 2010, I had the great honor and distinction of participating in a panel discussion in front of a packed ballroom, which was being broadcast on C-SPAN and FOX News. The topic of the discussion was “Two-Minute Activism: Saving Freedom Across the Nation.” The discussion was about college activists and highlighting the good that they’re doing in their campuses across the nation.

I was hella nervous, and I’ve posted the video online, but that’s not why I’m writing.

I’m writing about that toolshed Ryan Sorba, who threw out his speech and went on a two-minute rant about how, in his twisted world, it was impossible for someone to be conservative and to love someone of the same gender.

During Sorba’s tirade, it is true that a sizable portion of the crowd booing him. However, there were also sizable portions of the crowd cheering for him and chanting “Ron Paul.” What the heck an isolationist, anti-military, anti-Semitic nutbag had to do with the situation, I don’t know.  But that’s a

Anyway, Sorba was upset because a group called GOProud was present at CPAC.  GOProud
is a new organization that describes itself as promoting a “conservative agenda that emphasizes limited government, individual liberty, free markets and a confident foreign policy,” which is exactly what the Republican Party needs these days.

Sorba’s problems go back a long time, and it seems like CPAC didn’t do a background check on Sorba. If they had, they’d have seen that Sorba was an extremist that should be avoided by at all costs.  Sorba is the author of a book entitled The “Born Gay” Myth, in which, apparently, he argues that homosexuals aren’t born, they’re hatched from eggs.  I don’t know.

Personally, I have no problem with people loving on people of the same sex, as long as they keep what goes on in the bedroom in the bedroom.  You don’t tell me about your adventures at Casa Nueva, and I won’t tell you about girls I meet at Lucky’s. Deal? Deal.

If anything, having more conservative gays on the Right will mean the Big Tent will be fancier and more stylish.  I keed, I keed.

The long and short of it is that Sorba is a bigot, and if it were up to him, he’d expand the government into the bedroom.  Conservatives agree that government should be smaller, but social “conservatives” such as Sorba really aren’t—they believe that the government is their personal police force, keeping things that they don’t like away from them.

There is a place for everyone in the Big Tent of Reagan, as long as they believe in smaller and more efficient government, a strong military, and an America that leads the world by example and isn’t afraid to use force when all other options have been exhausted.  And if gays who believe in these things want a seat at the table, then by all means, they’re welcome.