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I wasn’t going to touch the whole, over-the-top controversy about the homosexual group participating at CPAC. Then the homosexual group’s board chairman, Christopher Barron, said this:
Barron places the blame at the feet of Cleta Mitchell, the big-name Republican D.C. lawyer who was the attorney for the groups trying to keep marriage equality from coming to the District. Mitchell did not respond to multiple requests from Metro Weekly for comment.
”I think there’s a couple people in Heritage who, at the behest of Cleta Mitchell – who is just a nasty bigot … she got some of the people at Heritage early on fired up about this,” Barron says. …
He’s singing the same tune when it comes to DeMint, who is joined by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) in claiming GOProud as part of his reason for staying away from this weekend’s conference.
Of those calling for the boycott, Barron says, ”They’re all excited that Jim DeMint is boycotting. And that’s fantastic. I’m glad that he’s willing to be on the Island of Political Misfit Toys with [World Net Daily’s Joseph] Farah and the Concerned Women for America.”
This means war. Cleta Mitchell is a wonderful lady. Calling her “a nasty bigot” is beyond the pale. So are his cracks about DeMint et al. Somebody needs to lasso this jackanapes, teach him some manners, tell him to get a life, and send him packing. The way to claim you just want a fair hearing and reasoned debate for your unpopular positions isn’t to immediately slander anybody, much less salnder people deservedly and highly respected among the movement you are on your knees begging to be a part of.
Asking for tolerance of private behavior is one thing. Asking for tolerance of utter public obnoxiousness is another. All of those conservative leaders who out of the best motives have supported GOProud’s case for inclusion should now disassociate themselves from this wretched, rude creep.
Erick Erickson says the same.
To be clear, the problem with Christopher Barron isn’t that he’s homosexual. The problem with Christopher Barron is that he’s a flaming jerk.
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ncatty| 2.10.11 @ 12:09PM
"..lasso..on your knees.." What's going on here?
bsuden| 2.10.11 @ 12:10PM
"To be clear, the problem with Christopher Barron isn't that he's homosexual. The problem with Christopher Barron is that he's a flaming jerk."
No, the problem is, he is a homosexual and proud of it.
Two, slander and smear are part of the program to force people around to their way of perverted thinking. Get used to it. If you haven't seen enough of it already, you will.
More to the point, what exactly is "conservative" about homosexuality? What exactly is the reason/excuse for showing up at CPAC?
Right. I forgot. Conservatism doesn't know what it is, so anybody and everybody is welcome.
Now that we got that straightened out.
Sheila| 2.10.11 @ 2:35PM
Well said, bsuden. All the extra clowns now joining the GOP's "big tent" will quickly scream "BIGOT," but at least you got the truth out there.
Oldefarte| 2.10.11 @ 12:17PM
As I've stated many times, homosexuals should simply GO BACK INSIDE THEIR CLOSETS. Everyone's sexuality and sexual activities should not be a matter of public awareness or concern, but should be a strictly PRIVATE MATTER [there is simply too much discussion of same in life, the media, TV, movies, etc; but that of course is what liberals want]!!!!!!!!!
NotALibertarian| 2.10.11 @ 12:47PM
Fabulous. I'm just wondering:
If it's productive for Barron to refer to Mitchell as a "nasty bigot", would it also be productive for Mitchell to refer to Barron as a "sick pervert?"
Patriot| 2.10.11 @ 12:52PM
Barron's a homosexual first and a Republican (?) second. He's demonizing his opponents to make them shut up--a favorite tactic of the Left.
It's bad enough to see this behavior in the Democrat party; do we really have to put up with it in ours? I don't want anything to do with this guy.
Red Phillips | 2.10.11 @ 1:05PM
As I said in the RSM front page article on this issue, I think people who defend a live and let live attitude toward homosexuality or see it as an equality issue before it is a moral issue are confusing liberalism (primarily in the original sense)/libertarianism with conservatism, which is not primarily adherence to a tight ideology but the inclination to conserve.
That said, I thought the attempt to purge GOPround and the boycot were ill advised. Because I don't want the John Birch Society or Youth for Western Civilization purged. Attempts to purge wrong thinkers will inevitably work against those who are "farther" (for lack of a better term) to the right.
Patriot| 2.10.11 @ 3:11PM
What people do in their own homes is not my business, but I will never surrender my right to speak out against attempts to normalize the gay lifestyle.
Whats next: My pastort and I will be frog-marched off to jail for hate speech? I just don't see a good outcome here.
Patriot| 2.10.11 @ 3:11PM
..pastor...
frank| 2.13.11 @ 9:19PM
Patriot, I am gay but I really can't be bothered to live "the gay lifestyle" which no doubt lives primarily in your diseased mastubatory fantasies.
As for hate speech, I certainly don't want that made illegal. How else would I amuse myself with gobshites like yourself?
Lenny| 2.14.11 @ 2:05AM
We don't give a crap what you do in your own house, but we'll never let you take away our freedom of speech.
Pastors in Canada and the Netherlands have been prosecuted for preaching from the Bible--so Patriot is right.
The only one who sounds diseased is you, pervert.
kingsmill| 2.10.11 @ 1:07PM
Weasel Barron joins with other profound "conservatives" like Larry O'Donnell (MSNBC's new Olby Lite) to dictate that the conservative movement must be a vehicle for promoting the radical social agenda of the homosexualist movement. Get bent!
NotALibertarian| 2.10.11 @ 1:13PM
This war is the inevitable mischief that ensues when political activists succeed in removing a developmental disorder from the psychiatric field's list of develpmental disorders.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.10.11 @ 1:24PM
I just don't engage in anything that hurts...or smells bad.
Hey folks, these guys are just like Clint. We will take their votes and.........
Clint| 2.10.11 @ 2:37PM
Kenny The Israel Firster Chickenhawk never knows when to shut his Drunken Mouth.
This Is What Smells Bad You Freakin' Israel Firster Coward.
"Ken (Old Texican)| 2.9.11 @ 7:29PM
I'm very sorry, Aaron.
Arseholes like Guardiano sadly have a vowel on the end of their names.
(See, John, I am anti-vowel)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vowels have hated semites for two thousand years. Take a deep breath and get over it."
Jacobite| 2.10.11 @ 1:46PM
Human societies are dominance hierarchies. Libertarians are wrong -- some social agenda is going to dominate society, because society is defined by a social agenda. The only question is what is the agenda going to look like? There have been isolated instances where a monarch has been homosexual and his entourage gotten control of the government. These situations have never ended well, as eventually the normal 98% of the population get back in charge and decide to eliminate any possibility of homo rule in the future. Go long on pokers.
Pecos| 2.10.11 @ 2:06PM
Wasn't there a quote about camels, noses and tents?
GOProud is using the same tactic on CPAC that the islamists are using on America.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.10.11 @ 2:33PM
Hey, Quin!
You and I both got a shout-out on Rush today.
Congratulations to you... and
"Awwww shucks" for me.
I'm really not a prophet...truly!
(Well, yes I am. the novel I sent you, bublished last October 1, was ...prescient.)
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.10.11 @ 2:34PM
Published with a P of course. (grin)
Kenny| 2.10.11 @ 2:59PM
We're making progress here folks.
Quin Hillyer is using the right term 'homosexual' instead of the sanatized P.C. one of 'gay.'
I never could figure out what was suppose to be so 'gay' about those sickos? Any thoughts or is just another perversion of the English language by the Left to make was is bad, good and what is good, bad?
gaylib| 2.10.11 @ 4:00PM
sorry, but he's right. well, almost. She's a self-centered, nasty bigot. Just because she married a closet case she wants to screw those of us healthy gay humans that don't hide who they are. Good for GOProud for showing what a bunch of narcissitic, petty, bigots you people are.
Gaydar| 2.10.11 @ 7:22PM
Stay in the democrat party where you belong; victimhood politics defines you.
jharp| 2.10.11 @ 4:13PM
The bigotry in the GOP is a pox on our country.
And for you to embrace and defend the bigots says a lot about TAS.
NotALibertarian| 2.10.11 @ 4:37PM
Actually, it is sexual perversion that is a pox on our country.
Attacking those who are trying to heal society is hardly helpful.
Gaydar| 2.10.11 @ 7:19PM
Sorry, harpy, the anus is an exit not an entrance.
Pretty stupid of you not to know that.
Oldefarte| 2.11.11 @ 10:41AM
You are partially correct [and partially incorrect].............it is no one's business, except GOD ALMIGHTY'S!!!!!!!!!
Gaydar| 2.11.11 @ 4:50PM
You are wrong; I cannot speak for God--can you? I can only speak for myself, and I will not be silenced by the perverted homosexual lobby.
NotALibertarian| 2.10.11 @ 8:49PM
Actually, I was referring to the whoredom that has resulted in majority-singlemotherhood in the inner cities. How's that working out for them? Not so well. Then we have the higher incidence of misery (depresion & suicide rates) and disease that dominates homosexual populations in even the most tolerant of societies. If our culture had just remained Christianized, the unthinking populace wouldn't have been so quick to come to the conclusions you have.
Gaydar| 2.10.11 @ 9:11PM
Those Catholic Priests were homosexual pedophiles, moron. You just unwittingly corroborated our argument about homosexual deviancy. Even you know the truth.
Are you a rapist, too? I'm sure you'll defend that next.
You are such a pathetic idiot-- laughably stupid, too.
jharp| 2.10.11 @ 10:15PM
"Those Catholic Priests were homosexual pedophiles, moron."
And felons as well.
And the Catholic Church continues to cover for them and their crimes using your money to this day.
Such a fine Christian organization they are. And we all need to remain "Christianized"?
God you people are stupid.
jharp| 2.10.11 @ 11:19PM
"Sorry, those little boys weren't raped by the "organization""
Many, but not all, were raped because the "organization" covered for and paid hush money and transferred the rapists to other parishes rather than do what was right and turn them over to law enforcement.
And it continues TO THIS DAY.
You are defending rapists and those who cover for rapists. And for those who enable rapists.
Good old Christian republican family values.
jharp| 2.10.11 @ 11:50PM
"Only a pervert would defend child rapists.'
Are you referring to the Catholic Church and those that fund the church?
Lenny| 2.14.11 @ 6:39PM
Gaydar never defended the Church, but you defended homosexual pedophiles who raped little boys.
You prove Gaydar's contention that many in the Gay community are morally bankrupt.
Oldefarte| 2.11.11 @ 10:43AM
As a Catholic, that's accurately true, but that pertains to a [human] CHURCH/RELIGION, not to GOD!!!!!!!!!!
Lenny| 2.14.11 @ 6:40PM
Only an imbecile would claim to speak for God.
Ben | 2.10.11 @ 5:21PM
I think you’ll find that GOProud’s members have been attacking numerous conservatives for some time now. They are very tribal.
As Lopez writes at NRO (quote):
GOProud presents itself as a victim. “The reason the boycotters applied a litmus test to us is because we were born gay,” its executive director, Jimmy LaSalvia, told the New York Times, where the controversy was featured this weekend. But GOProud has not simply disagreed with the rest of the conservative movement on marriage while highlighting other issues. It has become a go-to group for comments about family and sexuality — a gift to a media seeking to highlight divisions among the Right.
End quote. One word: tribal.
NotALibertarian| 2.10.11 @ 5:49PM
LaSalvia's remarks that they were "born gay" say a lot. No true conservative in his position would be uninformed about the fact that the "born that way" claim has been discredited:
"when asked if homosexuality was rooted solely in biology, gay gene researcher, Dean Hamer, replied, "Absolutely not. From twin studies, we already know that half or more of the variability in sexual orientation is not inherited. Our studies try to pinpoint the genetic factors...not negate the psychosocial factors"
http://narth.com/docs/hom101.html
David C| 2.14.11 @ 7:53AM
You should change your moniker to "NotAScientist."
Quoting something from NARTH as proof of something regarding homosexuality is as sensible as believing the moon is made from green cheese.
Besides, the fact that identical twins can differ in sexual orientation is not proof that such orientation is not inborn. It only means there is more than basic genetics at work. In short, something can be inborn and yet not inherited.
But thanks for revealing the intellectual level of the Spectator's anti-homosexual fans.
Lenny| 2.14.11 @ 6:35PM
Most of us aren't anti-gay, we're anti gay agenda.