CBS has an article on GOProud and CPAC that revolves mostly around Ryan Sorba’s attack on the group from the stage and the boos it elicited from the audience which quotes Liberty Counsel’s Mat Staver saying that GOProud free to be part of the conservative movement so long as they don’t expect the movement to actually support their agenda. How kind of him.
But he was also asked about his views regarding the negative reaction Sorba elicited with his attack, and Staver said that this year’s CPAC was dominated by libertarian Ron Paul supporters, suggesting that if it had been dominated by social conservatives, Sorba would not have been booed:
Mathew Staver, dean of the evangelical Liberty University School of Law and founder and chair of the Liberty Counsel, says that he and his allies “certainly don’t support the idea that anybody would be eliminated from the political process because of their sexual orientation.”
But he said Liberty University School of Law felt compelled to pull its sponsorship from CPAC over GOProud’s support for the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and other policies.
“Those are not conservative policies, and they are not supported by the Republican Party,” he said, noting that the GOP continues to oppose a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” repeal as well as same-sex marriage and hate crimes protections based on gender identity. “I welcome all people being part of the conversation, but I also think that just because of your individual orientation, it does not mean that we change the values that conservatives support.”
Asked if he was disappointed with Sorba’s reception, Staver noted that Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll of 2012 presidential candidates – evidence, he suggested, that those in the room were not “reflective of the conservative movement or the Republican Party.”
Really!? So if those who booed Sorba “are not reflective of the conservative movement or the Republican party,” then isn’t Staver saying that “real” conservatives wouldn’t have booed Sorba for his anti-gay rant?
