Editor's note: John Avlon is a factor and CNN senior political columnist for The Daily Beast. He is the author of "Wing Nuts: How the United States lunatic is kidnapping." Avlon wife, Margaret Hoover, on the Board of GOProud.
New York (CNN) - The Conservative Political Action annual meeting in Washington this week is not where you expect to find a new front in the gay movement for civil rights. But what is the story of this week's CPAC.
United States has been a movement for civil rights for homosexuals more than a decade. A measure of success is that he has finally reached the Republican Party.
The former first daughter Barbara Bush, made headlines by announcing his support for gay marriage, joining the daughter of former Republican presidential candidate Meghan McCain.
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Last year, former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman on. These stands have revealed some basic distinctions in the conservative coalition between libertarians and social conservatives, among a new generation and the old.
CPAC is where it comes into play this year, including 50 co-sponsors of the event is a conservative gay group known as GOProud. Members believe in the conservative principles of fiscal discipline to national security - but are openly gay, and this is apparently unacceptable to some members of his tribe to choose politics.
When CPAC Chairman David Keene said that GOProud be one of the co-sponsors of this year's convention, there was an outcry from social conservatives. And then began the resistance.
