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A 22-year-old college student attending the CPAC conference with the gay conservative group GOProud took time out from the event to tell Metro Weeklyhe doesn't much care for gay people and that only "straight acting" gay people are normal.
Matt Hinsey told Metro Weekly's Ebone Bell: "I don't really like gay people that much. Gay people frustrate me, the stereotypical gay people, it frustrates me...someone who puts on a total act. I understand that some guys are feminine, which is fine. But some guys, at some point, are normal, straight-acting, whatever and the next minute they're jumping up and down. It just frustrates me. The whole conservative thing is just be yourself, be an individual and just don't be someone you're not. If someone does or does not accept you, that's fine but don't change who you are to look different to others."
Hinsey also says he wants Sarah Palin to run for president in 2012 because she reminds him of his mother.A 22-year-old college student attending the CPAC conference with the gay conservative... more
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A bitter dispute over whether a gay conservative group should co-sponsor the conservative movement's largest gathering of the year has led some prominent supporters to withdraw from the event next week.
Riding the winds of success in November's midterm elections, this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, set to begin Feb. 10 in Washington, is expected to draw Republican presidential aspirants like Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, as well as thousands of activists.
But some conservative pillars, including church-based groups like the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America and Liberty University, and others like the Heritage Foundation, are declining to participate. They are angry that the gay organization, GOProud, has been given a seat at the planning table. These groups are opponents of same-sex marriage, which they say GOProud implicitly endorses by saying that the question should be left to the states.
GOProud, founded in 2009, claims to have 10,000 members and holds conservative views on taxes, gun control and national security, although it favored repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. And while it does not formally endorse same-sex marriage, it opposes any federal standard as well as the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which is supported by social conservatives.
Full Story: http://www.tampabay.com/incoming/some-boycott-conservative-political-action-conference-over-gay-groups-role/1148843A bitter dispute over whether a gay conservative group should co-sponsor the... more
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180 in 180 discusses battle inside the republican party, the health care debacle, the currency battle between statists and their countries, as well as the reason why ever time they fight, the people lose...
http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=3921180 in 180 discusses battle inside the republican party, the health care debacle, the... more
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New York gubernatorial candidate slams gays
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/10/new.york.paladino.gays/index.html?hpt=T1
New York gubernatorial candidate criticizes gays
From Cheryl Robinson, CNN
October 10, 2010 11:44 p.m. EDT
Paladino: Homosexuality not valid
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Republican Carl Paladino says homosexuality isn't "equally valid" with heterosexuality
* "There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual," his prepared remarks say
* A spokesman for Paladino's opponent says comments reveal "stunning homophobia"
* Remarks come as New York police respond to anti-gay hate crimes against 4 men
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New York (CNN) -- New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino criticized gays Sunday, saying he didn't want children "to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option," compared to heterosexuality.
"It isn't," Paladino said at a stop in Brooklyn, New York.
A prepared version of his remarks obtained by CNN from New York affiliate NY1 said that "There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual," though Paladino did not wind up delivering that line.
"That's not how (God) created us," the prepared remarks continued, though Paladino did not say those words.
Paladino distributed copies of his prepared remarks to reporters at the event, an address to a group of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.
The candidate's remarks came a day after New York police announced the arrest of an eighth suspect in a series of brutal, anti-gay hate crimes against four men.
The incident last weekend involved three victims being held against their will by as many as nine assailants who beat them in a vacant apartment and sodomized two of them, police said. A fourth victim was beaten and robbed in connection with the attacks.
"Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way," Paladino said Sunday. "That would be a dastardly lie -- my approach is live and let live."
"I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family," he said.
Paladino also slammed his Democratic opponent, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, for marching in New York's gay pride parade in June.
"That's not the example that we should be showing the children and certainly not in our schools," he said.
Cuomo spokesman Josh Vlasto responded to Paladino's comments Sunday.
"Mr. Paladino's statement displays a stunning homophobia and a glaring disregard for basic equality," Vlasto said in a statement. "These comments along with other views he has espoused make it clear that he is way out of the mainstream and is unfit to represent New York."
Paladino's remarks also drew fire from gay rights groups.
"Carl Paladino's comments would matter if they were coming from a serious political figure, however they are not," said Christopher Barron, chairman of the gay conservative group GOProud, in an email to CNN. "They are instead coming from the imploding campaign of a man with the personal baggage of John Edwards and all the electability of Alan Keyes."
But Paladino's campaign manager, Michael Caputo, stood by the gubernatorial candidate's comments on homosexuality.
"Carl Paladino's position on this is exactly equivalent to the Catholic Church," Caputo told CNN. "And if Andrew Cuomo has a problem with the Catholic Church's position on abortion and homosexuality, he needs to take it up with his parish priest."
CNN's Mark Preston contributed to this report.New York gubernatorial candidate slams gays... more
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Nobody ever said Ann Coulter was going to play nice during her time at Homocon, a summit held by the gay conservative group GOProud over the weekend, not even the organizers who insisted that she be there. Perhaps it came as little surprise to them, then, when the conservative pundit stood before the group of 150 attendees and aggressively railed against gay marriage.
Marriage "is not a civil right -- you're not black," Coulter told the crowd, building upon an argument that claimed the equal protections provided by the Fourteenth Amendment -- and potentially used to build a case for marriage equality -- were only applicable to black people.
Coulter, who was dropped from a recent event by conservative publication WorldNetDaily for her supposed traitorous behavior in headlining the gay event, wasn't done taking social issues to the heart of perhaps the most socially liberal faction within the GOP.
Talking Points Memo's Megan Carpentier on Coulter's speech:
In fact, despite opening her speech with a joke about the difficulty of "coming out" as a fiscal conservative to one's parents -- something she congratulated the attendees on -- Coulter's speech to GOProud mystifyingly focused on social issues and not the fiscal and foreign policy issues that brought most of the attendees there. For instance, she told GOProud that the conservative gay rights movement ought to make common cause with the anti-abortion movement because, she said, "as soon as they find the gay gene, you know who's getting aborted." Coulter also made a forceful case against sex education in schools, accusing liberals of attempting to teach kindergartners about "fisting" (which garnered her a heckler, who shouted out "What's wrong with fisting?") and told the crowd that most parents didn't want their children learning about the "homosexual lifestyle" instead of reading and writing.
But the attendees of Homocon can't say she didn't warn them -- literally.
"I should warn you: I've never failed to talk gays out of gay marriage," Coulter said at the beginning of the speech.
And the organizers of the event didn't seem surprised.
"We didn't invite her here because we agree on everything," GOProud Executive Director Jimmy LaSalvia told the Daily Caller. "We invited her here because we know she gives a great speech and we had a great dialogue on that subject tonight."
As for Coulter, she told the Daily Caller that the gay crowd was actually more receptive to her anti-gay marriage message than they were willing to concede.
"The truth is...they're already against gay marriage, they just wont admit it publicly," said Coulter. "I'm trying to get these gays to come out of the closet."Nobody ever said Ann Coulter was going to play nice during her time at Homocon, a... more
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