Tag Archives: Group: American Principles Project

World Net Daily: Austin Nimocks, a senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, said the move raises a lot of questions. “One of the reasons we have a Constitution is to prevent opinions from getting in the way of duties. The American people have a right to expect their laws will be defended by the people whose responsibility it is to do so,” he told WND. “One’s constitutional duty should not be optional.” [many more quotations and references to ADF and many other pro-family groups and lawyers] . . .

Fox News: “Allegations of a pro-gay takeover, boycotts, embezzlement and terrorist-loving board members. Sounds like a Hollywood version of a conspiracy thriller, but it’s not. It’s the buzz around this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the nation’s single largest annual congregation of conservative leaders.”

The Daily Caller: “The conservative coalition has always been unstable. And homosexuality may be the issue on which it shatters . . . Peter Wehner says that these groups could give the impression ‘that they do not have the arguments needed to win on the merits’ . . . By voting with their feet, however, social conservatives are not giving up, they are taking a public stand — which creates a forum to make their case more effectively.”

Christian Science Monitor: “This year also saw a low profile for social conservative groups as Congress debated the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ The Senate’s decision to allow openly gay service members in the armed forces – a vote that eight Republicans backed – sent a signal that the influence of social conservative groups on Capitol Hill is slipping.”

WorldNetDaily: “Two of the nation’s premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to attend the Conservative Political Action Conference in February because a homosexual activist group, GOProud, has been invited.”

American Principles Project: “‘The claim that this case is about equal protection or discrimination is simply false,’ George said. ‘It is about the nature of marriage as an institution that serves the interests of children–and society as a whole–by uniting men and women in a relationship whose meaning is shaped by its wonderful, and indeed, unique aptness for the begetting and rearing of children.’”