CPAC refused to allow GOProud to be a part of their gathering, with the only possible reason that most members of GOProud are gay. It can't be for any other reason because GOProud agrees with everything (including the harsh treatment of gays) that CPAC organizers espouse. Timothy Kincaid of Box Turtle Bulletin sees two interesting ideas that are related.
1. Most CPAC attendees disagree with the organizers. Half of the attendees were under 25 (yikes!) and this generation thinks gays should have the full support of society. All the panels featuring gay issues had members over 50 and their audience was mostly over 50.
2. GOP prez. candidates attended. Candidates now avoid events that have the appearance of being racist. But they don't yet avoid events that are homophobic, even if that turns off younger voters.
The nasty anti-homosexual bill is back for consideration in the Uganda Parliament. Jim Burroway also of Box Turtle Bulletin has started a series to explain how nasty it is.
Timothy Kincaid finds similarities between that bill, pushed by Rep. Bahati and the push for a marriage amendment in North Carolina by Sen. Brunstetter. Kincaid thinks neither man wants to actually kill gays (as the Uganda bill says) or poke into bedrooms in NC. What they want is for society to see homosexuality as vile. The crime isn't gay sex, but disagreeing with the vileness of gay sex. It isn't the sex, but doing it without feeling shame. They want to act quickly before public sentiment turns against them. Too late.
A commenter suggests another motivation, the fear of being wrong. Their anti-gay rhetoric has produced suicides and murders. If gays really aren't different from straights than all those nasty comments were for nothing other than causing deaths. Innocent people are dead and the blood is on their hands. That could cause a great deal of fear.
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