CPAC ousts GOProud, Birchers as conference sponsors

The decision comes after GOProud’s 2011 sponsorship sparked severe criticism from ACU board members — and prompted several social conservative groups to boycott the event. The controversy reached a boiling point when GOProud’s chairman called respected ACU board member Cleta Mitchell “a nasty bigot.”

Long considered a fringe group, the John Birch Society’s sensationalist accusations (such as saying Dwight Eisenhower was a “dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy“) prompted William F. Buckley to effectively banish them from the conservative movement.

Both GOProud and the Birchers were highly offensive to various blocs of CPAC board members — for entirely different reasons.