Comments on: GOProud’s CPAC Sponsorship Is Threatening to Undo Anti-Gay Conservatism http://www.queerty.com/goprouds-cpac-sponsorship-is-threatening-to-undo-anti-gay-conservatism-20091216/ Free of an agenda. Except that gay one. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:29:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve http://www.queerty.com/goprouds-cpac-sponsorship-is-threatening-to-undo-anti-gay-conservatism-20091216/#comment-247775 Steve Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:33:19 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=77650#comment-247775 I see three possible outcomes, all of them good. 1: The presence of gay people at a conservative conference could cause the conference to fail, as some people choose not to attend, and others are so distracted by the presence of the gay people that they cannot accomplish anything useful. 2. The presence of gay people at a conservative conference would introduce some of those conservative people to actual, live, gay human beings. Some of them might even realize that those actual human beings are not all so evil, after all. 3. Support for individual rights and freedoms really is a conservative value. Some of the conservatives might begin to see that gay people should have the same rights and freedoms as everyone else. These outcomes are not mutually exclusive, of course. They could happen in various combinations, depending on the people involved in each situation. I see three possible outcomes, all of them good.

1: The presence of gay people at a conservative conference could cause the conference to fail, as some people choose not to attend, and others are so distracted by the presence of the gay people that they cannot accomplish anything useful.

2. The presence of gay people at a conservative conference would introduce some of those conservative people to actual, live, gay human beings. Some of them might even realize that those actual human beings are not all so evil, after all.

3. Support for individual rights and freedoms really is a conservative value. Some of the conservatives might begin to see that gay people should have the same rights and freedoms as everyone else.

These outcomes are not mutually exclusive, of course. They could happen in various combinations, depending on the people involved in each situation.

]]> By: ksu499 http://www.queerty.com/goprouds-cpac-sponsorship-is-threatening-to-undo-anti-gay-conservatism-20091216/#comment-247640 ksu499 Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:38:11 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=77650#comment-247640 Call me psychic, but I figured this would be the outcome. There is no way many of the right-wing fundies will share the stage or billing with any group of avowed homosexuals. I am pretty sure GOProud knew what they were doing. Call me psychic, but I figured this would be the outcome. There is no way many of the right-wing fundies will share the stage or billing with any group of avowed homosexuals. I am pretty sure GOProud knew what they were doing.

]]> By: Cam http://www.queerty.com/goprouds-cpac-sponsorship-is-threatening-to-undo-anti-gay-conservatism-20091216/#comment-247546 Cam Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:23:01 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=77650#comment-247546 YES! Where can I send a donation. LOL!!! YES! Where can I send a donation. LOL!!!

]]> By: terrwill http://www.queerty.com/goprouds-cpac-sponsorship-is-threatening-to-undo-anti-gay-conservatism-20091216/#comment-247536 terrwill Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:09:29 +0000 http://www.queerty.com/?p=77650#comment-247536 This is genius!! We should ALL form conserative Gay groups and ally ourselves with the mother ships!!! Figger having a few thousand homos attending their meetings should be fun to watch their heads explode one by one!!! :P This is genius!! We should ALL form conserative Gay groups
and ally ourselves with the mother ships!!! Figger having
a few thousand homos attending their meetings should be fun
to watch their heads explode one by one!!! :P

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