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ACU board bewildered by Milo Yiannopoulos CPAC invitation, may revolt at this week’s meeting – Leon Wolf
Every year, the American Conservative Union hosts the Conservative Political Action Conference, one of the largest gatherings of conservative activists in the country. After ACU Chairman Matt Schlapp announced last week that alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos would be speaking at this year’s CPAC, controversy immediately erupted — a controversy that was exacerbated when multiple videos surfaced of Yiannopoulos arguing for the legalization of sexual relationships between teenage boys and adult men, as well as making anti-Semitic comments about Jews in the media.
In one of the videos, Yiannopoulos can be heard arguing that it’s a “statistical fact” that “Jews own most of the banks, Jews completely dominate the media.” In others, he argues explicitly that relationships between older gay men and gay teens ought to be celebrated, arguing, “We get hung up on this child abuse stuff… this arbitrary and oppressive view of consent, which totally destroys the understanding that many of us have of the complexities and subtleties.” He argued that these relationships help young gay men discover themselves, which he viewed as a good thing:
“In the homosexual world, particularly, some of those relationships between younger boys and older men — the sort of ‘coming of age’ relationship — those relationships in which those older men help those young boys discover who they are and give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable, sort of rock, where they can’t speak to their parents.”
The firestorm has shed unwelcome light on the ACU board, a group consisting largely of long-time conservative movement movers and shakers, and prominent CPAC donors, many of whom prefer to avoid the limelight.
Cracks began to appear in the facade almost immediately, as ACU board member Ned Ryun began immediately tweeting his displeasure with the decision, alleging that the ACU board was not consulted and that the invitation to Yiannopoulos was an affront to “basic decency.”
Continue to theblaze.com article: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/02/20/acu-board-bewildered-by-milo-yiannopoulos-cpac-invitation-may-revolt-at-this-weeks-meeting/
