Battleground: CPAC

February 12, 2011
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This weekend, a very exciting conflict is coming to a head in our country’s capital.

GOProud, who we  blogged about back in the fall, is participating in this year’s CPAC, as they did last year’s.  While GOProud isn’t exactly a libertarian organization, you can’t help but support any convergence of economic and social liberty.  Some conservative big-wigs, however, refuse to support GOProud, and a few have even boycotted CPAC.  The Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, Concerned Women of America, and SC Senator Jim DeMint (among others) have all decided that certain private bedroom activities  are so incompatible with conservative political thought that CPAC was no longer the right place for them.

But the good news is the mass of those that did not boycott, and those welcome GOProud with open arms.  Last year, when Young American for Freedom’s Ryan Sorba made these despicable remarks, he was greeted overwhelmingly with boos. This is exactly what we need from the national conservative movement — those who are accepting of social freedoms as much as they are of economic freedoms are standing with their small-government brethren, and those who simply can’t stomach it are removing themselves from the pac(k).

Reason TV released some great videos about this over the past few days, and the UNC-CH College Libertarians own Vice President (and recently re-elected student congressman) Alex Lopez, is at CPAC right now, and hopefully he’ll have some good news to report both about the gay issue and the conference in general.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=521178003 Gordon Fierce

    I’d say that in addition to being despicable, Ryan Sorba completely misinterpreted the concept of natural rights. By his logic, the use of contraceptives and heart medicine are against natural law. Obviously, this is not the case; natural law dictates that any person may do as they choose so long as they do not obstruct the rights of others, and it guarantees life, liberty, and happiness. Sorba is confused in thinking that natural law permits him to forbid certain actions of others, and I am confused as to how he could ever come to such a conclusion.

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