Well you just know what anything named "The Value Voters Summit" is going to stand for, the usual gathering of the most homophobic and terminally bigoted people on the planet.
Candidates attending
Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich
Yep, all the serious candidates who are all to ready to pander to even the most extreme wingnuts except the bordering on socialist Jon Huntsman.
Who will they be cavorting with in this orgy of hate?
Bryan Fischer
On his radio program and in blog posts, Fischer frequently expresses unmitigated bigotry toward a number of minority groups, including gays and lesbians, Muslim Americans, Native Americans, low-income African Americans and Mormons
That leaves who?...hmm...White Christians, but not the yucky type...are you taking notes Mitt?
Tony Perkins
The FRC has one of the most anti-gay platforms of any major political organization, including expressions of support for the criminalization of homosexuality.
Doing the tango with the leader of a well known hate group who says such things as
“While activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. … It is a homosexual problem.”
— FRC President Tony Perkins, FRC website, 2010
Mat Staver
Cultural Affairs Matt Barber has called marriage equality “ rebellion against God” and said LGBT youth are more likely to commit suicide because they know “ what they are doing is unnatural, is wrong, [and] is immoral .” Barber has also described liberalism as “hatred for God” and said the president and Democrats “are anti-God.
Again from the SPLC
Like other anti-gay groups, Liberty Counsel argues that hate crime laws are “actually ‘thought crimes’ laws that violate the right to freedom and of conscience”
Just bring on the love for the hate, it is a shame that these thought crimes also end in blood.
The list goes on and on and you can read the whole sordid thing thanks to our friends at right wing watch
One wonders just where these candidates will draw the line to their pandering for votes?
Mitt going to talk to people who despise the very religion to which he adheres, is he going to win hearts and minds, or just appear to be grovelling before the base?
Some of the others fit into this vile and intolerant melting pot but what the hell is Newt doing there? is there a Tiffany stall in the lobby?
These people are running for an office that represents every American; yet they are participating in an organization designed to exclude all but white straight Christians, so what the hell Cain thinks he is going to achieve beats me. Perhaps Cain thinks he meets their bar; barely tolerated since he is rich whilst being African American?
If they were offering their candidacy for "Stormfront Receptionist" I could understand the need to participate, but wanting to be President of a America requires that they avoid this hateful mire and be willing to embrace the US in all its wonderful diversity.
It is time that the MSM ran with this for all it is worth.
I cannot believe they are being given a free ride in this abhorrent behavior.