CPAC -- Too Liberal for Liberty Law School

When I think of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), I think of, well, conservatives. When I think of Liberty University, which claims Jerry Falwell Jr. as its chancellor, I think of conservatives. So when Liberty Law School sponsors a CPAC event, I don’t expect there to be major conflicts between the two organizations.
And, apparently, I would be totally wrong about that. A tipster sent us this link from OneNewsNow:

Liberty University Law School has withdrawn as a co-sponsor of next month’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington because a Republican homosexual activist group is being allowed to co-sponsor the event.

If there are some people who think the anti-gay-marriage movement is nothing but bigotry in drag, it’s because of institutions like Liberty Law School.
More details after the jump.


It seems to me that it’s entirely possible to be both gay and conservative. But not everybody agrees with me:

Bryan Fischer is director of issue analysis for the American Family Association and host of the radio program Focal Point with Bryan Fischer. He says CPAC chairman David Keene and CPAC organizers have a serious problem on their hands.
“The bottom line is that homosexuality is not a conservative value,” Fischer states emphatically. “There are any number of co-sponsoring organizations that I believe are going to have a real problem with the fact that they are giving such a prominent place to an organization which is such an active proponent of gay rights.”

The Liberty Law School dean wrote a letter to CPAC to protest GOProud, the homosexual group at issue:

Liberty University chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr., and Liberty Law School dean Mat Staver had penned a letter to CPAC organizer David Keene last month, requesting that he disallow the homosexual group GOProud from co-sponsoring the conference. …
“Obviously as an exhibitor or participant, you don’t necessarily have to think that everyone agrees with you, and some people might even work against you,” Staver notes. “But as a co-sponsor, even though not everybody would have the same mission, not everyone would agree with the same tactics, and some would actually focus on economics whereas others might focus on social issues and others might focus on national defense — the fact is they’re all conservative in nature. You wouldn’t expect, however, a co-sponsor to actively work to undermine another co-sponsor, and that is in fact what GOProud does.”

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A reader poll on OneNewsNow shows that almost 90% of their readers think that CPAC should boot GOProud from the event. I wonder what Above the Law readers think.

CPAC keeps GOProud, loses other sponsor [OneNewsNow]

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