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After years of being rejected, Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory Angelo last night announced that his group has been accepted of a sponsor of CPAC, the annual right wing convention where attendees and hate group leaders gather to denounce LGBT Americans in the most vicious ways imaginable and plot anti-LGBT legislation in the name of White Jesus. Via the Washington Blade:
Angelo announced what he called a “watershed moment” in Log Cabin’s history at the regularly scheduled meeting of the group’s D.C. chapter on Wednesday night.
“I couldn’t wait to share this news with all of you as so many of you have been asking me about this for probably a better part of a year now,” Angelo told the gathering, which included Jose Cunningham, the gay chair of the D.C. Republican Party.
“I’m happy to say, I’m pleased to say, I’m honored to say that this morning Log Cabin Republicans was accepted as formal sponsors at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference,” Angelo said.
His jubilant announcement came one year after Angelo and LGBT conservatives criticized the American Conservative Union, which organizes the annual CPAC event, for rejecting Log Cabin’s request to become a sponsor on grounds that it wasn’t conservative enough and didn’t submit a proper application.
Last year’s rejection followed similar rejections of Log Cabin’s request to become a CPAC sponsor over the past several years. CPAC officials in past years had also refused to accept as a sponsor the conservative LGBT group GOProud.
Other CPAC 2016 sponsors include the Heritage Foundation, Tea Party Patriots, the NRA, the Koch Institute, and the parent companies of anti-LGBT websites such as Twitchy, Townhall, and LifeSiteNews. Confirmed speakers include Ted Cruz, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Sam Brownback.