John Adams said the U.S. Constitution would govern only a “moral and religious” people and would be worthless with any other kind of people. George Washington said the USA could never hope to be a happy nation unless the people imitated the behavior of Christ, the Savior. First Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Jay said that this Christian nation ought to elect Christians as its leaders. Samuel Adams (founder of the original Boston Tea Party) said the right to freedom is the gift of God almighty ... an attempt to cut ourselves off from God puts our “rights” in jeopardy. Some folks think church membership is stupid but it wasn't our founding fathers who did.

After being closely involved with my local and a national tea party the last several years I will not support a tea party candidate. I have nothing against the tea party as far as their great work in bringing fiscally responcible candidates to the table but their record is horrible on the social conservative side. Being a tea party member does not a republican make. A very large portion of tea partiers are libertarians who loathe being forced to support a republican candidate, ESPECIALLY any christian candidate who they claim can never win. They are forced because there isn't enough support for their libertarian ideals to gain a majority win, especially in a presidential election. Out of 50 states there is only one libertarian Govenor.

As a culture, we must choose between the homosexual agenda or the Constitution because we can't have both. Bryan Fischer

GOProud publicly claims on its website to be a "committed to a traditional conservative agenda". And at CPAC they talk about free markets and free enterprise. But in fact, what is revealed through its writings, actions, and lobbying efforts includes: Homosexualizing the military, Legalization of homosexual "marriage", Repeal of federal "Defense of Marriage Act", Having America's foreign policy support homosexuality abroad. In addition, in their writings and some of their interviews they've begun to demonize pro-family groups which do not support the homosexual agenda as bigots and haters. But their "public" face is always limited government and fiscal conservatism. This is the classic Saul Alinsky approach. MassResistance

A number of conservatives wrote articles supporting the boycott, some in very strong terms! Don Feder: "Gays, Grover And Islamists - CPAC, It's Not Your Ronnie's Conservative Conference" Red State - Erick Erickson: "This is Too Much For Me" Floyd Brown: "Gay 'Conservative' Group Tears Conservatism Apart" American Principles Project: "An open Letter to CPAC attendees and presenters." Americans for Truth: "Ad Charges CPAC Betrays Conservative Principles and Threatens Conservative Unity" TFP.org: "TFP to CPAC: Don't Betray Principles"

Last year MassResistance joined with the American Family Association, Liberty Counsel, Traditional Values Association, WorldNetDaily, Americans for Truth, Vision America, and other pro-family groups as signers in a full-page ad in this past Monday's Washington Times newspaper. The ad, titled "What would Ronald Reagan think of CPAC today?" denounced CPAC for embracing the homosexual group and for abandoning a core conservative tenet. "CPAC is betraying conservative principles and threatening conservative unity by creating the false impression that gay activism is somehow compatible with conservatism," it said. Read PDF version of ad HERE

CPAC declined to invite RINOS like Chisty and GOPROUD homosexuals for one reason only and thats because their pandering to moderates lost them support from a group whose lose will severely cripple them and that is christians, the original founders of the republican party. Many of conservatives most successful ans followed leaders are christians because that is where true conservatism comes from. For the last couple of years more and more of them boycotted CPAC for their ever growing list of liberal and even anti-american guests; "The trouble with CPAC (the annual Conservative Political Action Conference) can be summed up in six words – gays, Grover, knee-jerk libertarianism and Islamist connections."Don Feder

We have a republican majority in the house and there are currently 30 Republican govenors , 19 Democrats govenors, and 1 independent govenor nationwide. You clearly need to research before commenting.

I reiterate, When you look at the Republican Party's official platform it is very staunchly conservative. Not moderate, not middle of the road. If you don't like that, then join another party that embraces your ideology. Stop trying to change our party!!! Conservatism by it's definition isn't all inclusive. You actually have to be conservative. Conservatism embraces absolute truth, for liberals truth is relative to how you 'feel' or your circumstances at the moment. That's the difference between the two.. To be a liberal you can't be conservative but you can imbrace everything else, even some parts of conservatism. To be a conservative you cannot force a lie on the party, like the lie of homosexuality and Christy's fake conservatism.

nomore you are absolutely correct in you summation. There are those who are destroying the party from within by working to move the platfrom away from conservatism to middle of the road politics where we straddle the fence on issues instead of taking a stand. Loyal to one side or the other according to how the polictical winds are blowing atm.

Then you are not, by defintion a republican.