Today Paul Ryan will be speaking at Crazytown aka Tony Perkins' Value Voters Summit
One of the most insane political gatherings of the year. It's being broadcast on C-SPAN2:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Value-Voters-Summit-Hosts-Leading-Conservatives-Politicians/10737434091-1/
Here's a Salon article about some of the distinguished speakers:
Four crazy conservatives you haven’t (yet) heard of
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1. Mat Staver is the fiercely anti-gay Chairman of the Liberty Counsel and Dean of the Liberty University Law School, which are both connected to the late Jerry Falwell. Staver has accused the Obama Administration of running an “affirmative action” program to get Muslims into top national security positions, thus helping the Muslim Brotherhood infiltrate the top levels of the U.S. government. He’s also argued that the Obama Administration has been pushing “in-your-face forced abortion funding, in-your-face forced homosexuality,” and that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which protects gays and lesbians in the work place, “will put individuals at risk and ultimately result in significant damage and even death of some individuals.”
2. Frank Gaffney is a professional Islamophobe, and his speaking slot at this year’s conference will probably add to his cred. But there’s another like-minded speaker on the agenda: the director of Former Muslims United and founder of Arabs for Israel, Nonie Darwish.
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3. Talk show host Dennis Prager has attacked Rep. Keith Ellison, the only Muslim in Congress, for getting sworn into office on the Quran in 2006. Prager had said: “America, Not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on.” The Anti-Defamation League slammed those comments as being intolerant.
Prager also once argued that even if a woman doesn’t feel like sleeping with her husband, she should, otherwise it’s totally her fault if he cheats: “To ask that he also regularly deny himself sex with the one woman in the world with whom he is permitted sex is asking far too much. Deny him enough times and he may try to fill this need with another woman.” This ties in to his belief that feminists have hurt women in the end because “most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media. And they were. It turns out that most women without a man do worse in life than fish without bicycles.” Whatever that means.
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Find out who number four is here:
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/14/four_of_the_craziest_conservatives_you_havent_yet_heard_of/
