It’s not because you’re gay, it’s because you have banded together under the rubric of what is not, irrespective of what Jennifer Rubin might think, a conservative value.

I have conservative friends who are gay (one of whom helped found GOProud). I also have conservative friends who believe in abortion. I myself have certain beliefs that are not widely seen as conservative. None of those is a conservative position, value, or attribute — and I use three words to say I don’t know the right word to use.

But what I do know is that trying to change the definition of conservatism is the essence of what it means not to be conservative. Trying to force other people to associate with you by bullying them into accepting your position is not a tactic conservatives should adopt.

It also doesn’t matter one little bit whether you call yourself a “conservative” or a “stalk of celery”. Your beliefs are yours, and no one else exactly shares them.

If I believed that being gay an inborn or innate characteristic, then I would say that it’s covered under our civil rights laws, and those refusing to accept people for their different state of being would be, then, bigots.

But there is no proof of that. So far, what we have are people who choose to live a certain way and demand that the rest of us accept it.

First, we need to clear up a lie that GOProud continually promotes in order to appear the victim and play the sympathy card. They were never banned from CPAC. The ACU simply did not allow them to sponsor the event. They were still allowed to attend – as it apparent by the fact that GOProud was on a panel at CPAC. The Huffington Post advanced this lie when they wrote of “GOProud’s exclusion from participation at CPAC.” Ironically, the subject of the Huffpo article was what was said at a panel GOProud participated in at CPAC. Mr. LaSalvia also advances this lie when he said they were kicked out of CPAC.

Second, GOProud’s application to sponsor CPAC was rejected because they had previously used their sponsorship to attack conservatives that did not agree with them on gay marriage. While a sponsor at CPAC, they attacked Liberty University, the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, and various conservative leaders like Jim Demint, Cleta Mitchell, Rick Perry, etc. If you read their press releases, you will find several others. Andrew Breitbart left their board of directors because of the stunt they pulled in outing Tony Fabrizio. Erick Erickson wrote an excellent column on this at the time.

Third, GOProud is not a conservative organization. They have not helped to advance any conservative cause – despite what their press releases and fundraising mail says. Their primary goal is to disguise homosexual marriage as a conservative cause and to attack other conservatives who disagree with that objective. If I am wrong, then please point out the conservative cause they have advanced.

Fourth, GOProud has shown a willingness to put their homosexual agenda over other conservative issues. They support the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. They undermined defense issues by supporting Harry Reid’s repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in a lame duck Democratic controlled session of Congress. They will not accept civil unions. Mr. LaSalvia made that clear several years ago in an interview with Breitbart news. They do not want the government out of the marriage issue.

In short, GOProud’s sole purpose is to make homosexual marriage a conservative issue and drive out conservatives who happen to disagree with that objective. Mr. LaSalvia and Mr. Barron raise a lot of money and get a lot of press for their attacks on traditional conservatives. As far as I can tell, none of that money goes to any conservative cause. Most of it is used by GOProud to push their homosexual agenda and attack conservatives so they can continue to raise funds and get press coverage by the MSM. No conservative should see GOProud as anything but a Trojan horse within our midst.

What’s really embarrassing is watching our new media turn into blithering idiots on the issue of supporting gay conservatives and pandering to special interest groups.

“….marriage only being between a man and a woman is an endangered species…”

“… teen pregnancies, high rate of divorce, adultery, parental
irresponsibility, horrendous public schools, etc etc have very
significant parts to play in the deterioration of our society…”

First of all, 2 + 2 = 4. Think about it.

As far as the secularization of America, perhaps the trend is going that way on the national level in terms of the Presidency and media. But I think that when you drill down to the heart of America, outside the festering cities and places like California, you see not only acceptance of traditional values but an embrace of those values, and a rejection of the secularization that is being rammed down our throats. Society moves away from traditional values at its peril (i.e. Detroit, The Netherlands, Great Britain).

The LGBT agenda may seem like it is gaining ground, but it is only a matter of time before someone’s teacher is a man dressed as a woman, or the mayor is seen making out with his “husband”, or a guy dressed in only leather chaps isn’t really all that cool any more and viewed as what it is – weird.