Star Parker: 'Gay Conservative' Is An Oxymoron

CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, has been an annual gig for me for years. But this year I concluded it was not my place, and I declined to participate in the various venues at the event to which I was invited.

Yes, the reason I declined was the inclusion of GOProud, a group identifying itself as representing "gay conservatives and their allies," as a sponsor of the event.

And it's the reason why some of the nation's most important conservative organizations – the Heritage Foundation, the American Family Association, Concerned Women of America, Family Research Council, Media Research Center and the National Organization for Marriage – did not participate.

The founder and chairman of GOProud removed any doubt on my part that not participating was the correct decision by dismissing these groups as "losers," "clowns" and "not relevant."

I, of course, have been accused of being worse than a clown. The barrage regularly comes in from the left. But this is a first that I've had to listen to this kind of stuff from a group that postures as "conservative."

I became a conservative in church. I thought I was doing OK in my previous life – scamming the welfare system, going to the beach, soaking in my welfare-subsidized hot tub, treating sex as a hobby and abortion as birth control.

In our culture today that views material prosperity as the ultimate barometer of success, the truth is becoming unfortunately lost. If there is nothing more than what is before our eyes in this world, what does it matter?

When I understood how the culture of welfare-state materialism was destroying not just my life, but all of black America, there was no dividing line in my mind between "social issues" and "economic issues." The only dividing line I saw was between right and wrong, good and evil.

The idea of "gay conservative" is an oxymoron.

"Gay" is everything that "conservative" is not.

The foundation of the worldview that so-called "gay conservatives" embrace has far more in common with liberalism than with conservatism.

It's a worldview that is man-centered rather than God-centered. It is a worldview that rejects eternal truths passed on from the beginning of time.

Although the worldview that "gay conservatives" choose to invent may diverge from the worldview of liberals, their common ground is that they make it all up.

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[Star Parker is president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal, and author of "White Ghetto: How Middle Class America Reflects Inner City Decay."]