GOProud, CPAC Enablers To Religious Conservatives: SIT! STAY, Dog!

by Jared Law

GOProud claims to be a conservative organization, but their raison d’etre is anything BUT conservative, and their support of other leftist positions proves that they are NOT conservatives, not by any stretch of the imagination. So why is GOProud a major sponsor of CPAC? Why would CPAC accept their sponsorship dollars? Are there really not enough people, and enough fees charged, to do CPAC without the sponsorship of a single-issue special interest group, which has declared war against moral conservatives?

The fact of the matter is that the Heritage Foundation, the Family Research Council, the Center for Military Readiness, the American Family Association, Concerned Women For America, American Values, the American Principles Project, the Capital Research Center, the Center for Military Readiness, the Liberty Counsel, Liberty University, the Media Research Center, and the National Organization for Marriage all pulled out of CPAC. Had I been scheduled to attend CPAC, I would have pulled out as well. And GOProud isn’t the only reason: David Horowitz and Robert Spencer have both decried one CPAC board member’s ties to radical Islam:

“Suhail Kahn is a member of the board of the American Conservative Union. He’s moderating a [CPAC] panel,” Horowitz explains. “His father created an Islamist mosque in California that held fundraisers for Ayman al-Zawahiri, the number-two [man] in al-Qaeda. This was in the [19]90s.”

Terrorism expert Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, comments as well on Kahn.

“Suhail Kahn has also spoken about how Muslims should be eager to die for the Palestinian question, using the same kind of language that suicide bombers have employed,” he notes. “This is not really somebody who should be considered moderate or certainly not conservative.”

Spencer is calling for changes. “There needs to be a drastic overhaul at the top of CPAC — and [for] the American Conservative Union that runs it,” he says.

CPAC is quickly becoming an irrelevant event. We’ll see if they right their ship in 2012, or if they become irrelevant going forward.

On another front, I had no idea how shallow Andrew Breitbart’s conservative principles ran. I was DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED, and offended, by Andrew Breitbart’s tweet on New Year’s Eve, announcing his disdain, his lack of respect for the vast majority of conservatives/Tea Partiers/9.12’ers who have both principles AND Christian values:

Floyd Brown, president of the Western Journalism Center and founder of Citizens United, said the following about the poor decision of the CPAC board, as well as conservatism itself:

“The conservative movement as envisioned by Frank Meyer is a coalition between economic conservative, social conservatives and defense and foreign policy conservatives. GOProud’s participation in CPAC undermines the coalition envisioned by Meyer, the philosopher at National Review that developed the framework on which the modern American conservative movement was built.”

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Erick Erickson adds his excellent commentary on the issue of radical homosexual activists declaring war on Conservatives (and by implication, their attempts to divide and conquer the Tea Party movement):