Denouncer of GOProud booed offstage by CPAC audience

by Susan Marie Kovalinsky | February 19, 2010 at 07:03 pm
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I have written for Now Public indepth about the civil war within the conservative CPAC movement involving GOProud, a gay conservative group.

AFTAH leader Peter LaBarbera had threatened to boycott CPAC if GOProud were allowed to co-sponser.  

Now, I am surprised to read tonight that the CPAC audience booed GOProud denouncer Ryan Sorba from CYAFF (California Young Americans For Freedom) when he began to rail at GOProud, which he called "Go Pride".  

David Badash of the gay blog, The New Civil Rights Movement,  sees a ray of hope here:  and who could not?  Badash, however, is still largely cynical about CPAC and gay rights.  And of course,  Concerned Women for America had their bumperstickers which read, Real Men Marry Women.  

I literally just spent an hour on Twitter arguing that CPAC hates gays. My point was that as an organization, CPAC hates the LGBTQ community, and I won’t back down from that. If you go to CPAC’s site, the overwhelming majority of co-sponsors and exhibitors are anti-LGBTQ equality. And, as I wrote earlier today, Rep. Mike Pence wants the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage “if need be.” Whatever that means.

There is no other word possible than “hate.”

And Ryan Sorba, of the California Young Americans For Freedom makes my case, as he tells his audience he is denouncing CPAC for allowing GOProud (he says, “Go Pride”) to attend.

But here’s where it gets… weird. In a good way.

The crowd shouts him down. They literally boo him off the stage.

Sorba shouts, “The lesbians at Smith College protest better than you.” Curious, I had to find out what that meant. Here’s what that meant.

Sorba pulled the same bull two years ago, at Smith College. Seems he takes it as a badge of honor to get booed off a stage. Pam Spaulding wrote about the Smith College incidentwhen it happened.

Unsurprisingly, in researching this, I keep reading about “Sorba’s upcoming book, “The born gay hoax,” but can’t find it anywhere, not even on Amazon. The best I can find is this page on Amazon’s Askville: “Does Amazon carry any books by Ryan Sorba?

Maybe we can end the week on a good note. Maybe there is hope for everyone.

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Hugh Askew

"CPAC hates the LGBTQ community"

Once again, anyone that is opposed to extra rights for homosexuals, is labeled with:

HATE HATE HATE HATE

Pretty pathetic.   No reason or debate from the homosexuals, just HATE.

At least they are consistent. If you oppose the gay agenda, you are filled with HATE!!!!

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stejeb

I don't see any sign anywhere of anti treating pro any better either Hugh, I felt he was pathetic to have got up with that attitude anyway, you can maybe get away with it at events where their is only one view, but take it to something like that, he deserves it to be booed off.

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Hugh Askew

"Anti" ?  Do you mean the anti-hetrosexuals?

The ones that accuse anyone that disagrees with their agenda of hating homosexuals?  Is that the "anti" group you are alluding to?

Where did the pro-hetro people accuse anyone of hate?

You don't find the accusations of hate pathetic?




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