Yesterday here on Instant Tea, I posted this blog about apparent rifts in the ranks of those calling themselves conservative activists.
It included a video of Ryan Sorba of California Young Americans for Freedom who was supposed to be talking to a gathering at last weekend’s Conservative Poliotical Action Conference about his part in James O’Keefe’s undercover ACORN “sting” in San Bernadino. Instead, Mr. Sorba took to the podium and immediately began denouncing CPAC for allowing the gay Republican group GOPride to participate in the conference. Sorba got heartily booed.
Today, I found this article at TPMMuckraker about Ryan Sorba’s previous brushes with the law. Apparently when he was 19, he had to move out of his family home in San Bernadino County after a woman named Mary Paulson got a three-year restraining order against him in connection with a domestic violence case. The order forbid him from having any contact with Paulson or with his own brother, Michael Sorba, for three years.
Ryan Sorba said the whole thing was over “the stupidest thing you could imagine,” and that he had gotten into a fight with a boy in the neighborhood whose mother filed the restraining order to keep them from fighting any more. He said his brother was involved because he and his brother used to get into fights. Everything’s fine now, he said, claiming “I’m friends with those people now, and I was friends with them then.”
In 2008, Sorba was cited for a noise violation at a polling place. He said he was handing out pro-Proposition 8 flyers when “some homosexual guy came up and I guess he called the police and they gave me a ticket.”
How did Sorba know the man was gay? Because “he looked gay, he sounded gay — it was evident.”
I made a short video rebutting Sorba’s position:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RhlZVdQfVg
Joe
If looking gay is an indicator of sexuality, Miss Thang should take a glance in the mirror.
I think he’ll see a big flamin’mo.
As a progressive, I’m glad that there is unity among those on the left on the matter of civil rights. I know it hasn’t always been that way with Democrats, but that’s the glue for our side of the aisle.
The Right is going to have to find that singular issue so they aren’t torn apart by the big 3 factions. Just look at the CPAC straw poll… The Libertarians have the strongest voice in the poll with Ron Paul coming out on top, Republicans got Romney in 2nd place and without a doubt the Tea Party Movement sealed Palin’s 3rd place.
But this guy? He’s fringe, but he’s putting a bright shiny star on the bigotry that festers on the Right.