HOW CAN WE MOVE FORWARD TOGETHER? A bipartisan discussion on the political path ahead featuring
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Thursday, February 2, 2017 7:30-9:00 pm
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Guy Benson is a Ridgewood High School graduate. He is the Political Editor of Townhall.com, a Fox News Contributor, and co-author of the book End of Discussion. In 2015, Forbes magazine named Guy to its ’30 under 30′ law & policy roster. Guy is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism
Julie Roginsky is a Democratic Party strategist and Fox News contributor. Roginsky founded Comprehensive Communications Group, which has worked on behalf of Fortune 500 corporations, elected officials and non-profit organizations. Senators Cory Booker and Frank Lautenberg have been among the firm’s clients. Julie hails from New Jersey, having attended high school in Princeton. She is a graduate of Boston University with a BA in political science and an MA in Russian economics.
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He’s an “acceptable” conservative.
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No way a dedicated female progressive would be caught dead associating herself with an unapologetic, cisgendered, non-sodomitical, devoutly religious, white, conservative, male. One or two things have got to give for the latter to be deemed an acceptable sparring partner in a series of political events of this sort. Come to think of it, if the above list were adhered to but the skin color changed from white to black the individual would probably be actively politically hunted down for reputational destruction rather than included in polite debates or discussions.
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Fox Contributor Guy Benson Comes Out as a Gay Conservative in New Book
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by Andrew Kirell | 12:27 pm, May 4th, 2015
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In a new book, out next month, conservative talk radio host, Fox News contributor, and Townhall.com political editor Guy Benson reveals that he is gay.
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The fresh-faced pundit co-authored End of Discussion: How the Left’s Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun) with fellow Fox contributor Mary Katharine Ham, and wrote within its pages: “So, I’m gay.”
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In an interview with BuzzFeed’s Chris Geidner this week, Benson said his sexual orientation is just “a footnote in a 316-page book,” and that “Gay rights is not something that dominates my attentions — or my passions — and that may seem incongruous, that may seem counterintuitive to a lot of people, but the issues that I care about most undergird the reasons why I’m a conservative and have been forever and will be a conservative moving forward.”
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Interestingly, the chapter in which Benson first mentions his homosexuality is titled, “Bake Me A Cake, Bigots,” obviously a reference to ongoing debates about “religious liberty” laws aimed at protecting businesses against being forced to serve customers or take part in activities that violate their religious beliefs — i.e., religious cake shops baking for a same-sex wedding.
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On such issues, Benson told BuzzFeed, “I’m for civil marriage, I’m for nondiscrimination laws — but I think there should be broad carve-outs for religious organizations, in particular, and narrow carve-outs for closely-held businesses that serve the wedding industry.”
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And on whether gay Republicans must automatically be “self-hating” because of their support for a party that is generally seen as the antagonist on most LGBT issues, Benson said, “I think that’s extraordinarily closed-minded and betrays a lack of imagination, at the very least.”
Gay Fox News Contributor Guy Benson: Gay People Should Be More Tolerant of Discrimination
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by Michael Fitzgerald
March 7, 2016 | 7:06 am
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Gay FOX News contributor Guy Benson has said that “so-called open-minded” supporters of same-sex marriage need to be more tolerant of anti-gay activists.
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Speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Benson said that gay rights activists “are hounding heretics ruthlessly from their midst to the point that if you’re a Democrat, if you’re a liberal and you might hold traditional views on marriage, you probably don’t want to talk about it very much for fear of the wrath and judgment of your fellow so-called open-minded leftists.”
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He added that although he is a supporter of same-sex marriage, he disagrees with the “mandatory celebration” – anti-gay businesses expected to provide their services for gay weddings – of the SCOTUS ruling.
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Co-panelist Ryan T. Anderson of the Heritage Foundation thanked Benson for his comments because “he doesn’t think that it’s a debate between his side and bigots and idiots.”
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Co-panelist Mollie Hemingway said that although gay activists were respectful during the debate on same-sex marriage and “didn’t try to call me names – they just tried to reason with me,” she added that “what we’re seeing more is a crushing of dissent at a tiny, local level.”
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Benson said that coexist bumper stickers “that they love on the left” are “a little morality billboard on your fender to demonstrate what a wonderfully good person you are for fellow motorists. [However] what coexistence really looks like in America today is disagreeing with someone on marriage and not trying to sue their business out of existence because they disagree.”
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Other speakers at CPAC included Rick Santorum, Phil Robertson and Jeb Bush