Tag Archives: Christopher Barron

In addition to opposing ENDA, the Matthew Shepard Act, or any federal protections for LGBT Americans, GOProud feels that marriage equality is a states’ rights issue and therefore they are OK with the 31 states that have passed constitutional bans on same-sex marriage at the behest of groups like NOM. That’s just democracy in action!

“Homocon 2010 was a complete and total success. GOProud set out to throw a great party, not hold a policy event, and that’s exactly what we did. Gay conservatives gathered from across the country to spend a night celebrating the enormous success this organization has had in such a short time. “We celebrated by asking Ann Coulter to speak, and …

“Despite our name, GOProud is not a partisan organization; we do not hold ourselves out as an auxiliary of the Republican Party. We are not an organization seeking to ‘change’ the Republican Party into the party of Dede Scozzafava or Chris Shays. We are conservatives, committed to the conservative movement. We believe strongly that what matters are principles not partisanship. …

“The homosexual press has noticed. In an enlightening commentary on a homosexual activist blog, we get this observation: ‘But isn’t it something how the issue of marriage equality is slowly starting to tear at the GOP. What a difference a few years make. In 2004, there was nary a Republican that could get behind the issue of marriage equality without …

The Advocate wonders if Sarah Palin’s blow-up at Vanity Fair over their hit piece on her wasn’t deliberately loaded with words meant to attack the sexuality of its author. Is Sarah Palin using code words to slam gay journalist Michael Joseph Gross, a frequent Advocate contributor who wrote the much-buzzed-about profile of the former vice presidential nominee in this month’s …

GOProud chairman Chris Barron wants to kill a lot of people.

Horrifying. Terrifying. War criminal sends vacant-eyed zombies into frenzy over hint of 2012 presidential run. RELATED: Ben Smith at Politico today notes that “conservative activist” Chris Barron is behind the Draft Cheney movement. Smith doesn’t appear to know that Barron is the head of GOProud. Here’s his official Draft Cheney site. That’s right folks, a gay man is spearheading the …

On Tuesday Massachusetts votes on Ted Kennedy’s Senate replacement, a contest that attracted huge donations from health care reform opponents. Today the president issued the below endorsement of MA Attorney General Martha Coakley, an outspoken advocate for health care reform AND a friend of the LGBT community. UPDATE: GOProud head Christopher Barron has posted another diatribe, this time accusing the …

GOProud’s chairman of the board Christopher Barron is angry that liberals haven’t supported their sponsorship of the ultraconservative wingnut CPAC conference. Barron writes in a Metro Weekly editorial: In a case of truly strange bedfellows, the gay left has joined the most radical elements of the social conservative movement in attacking GOProud’s participation. You can understand the fear of extremists …