Ryan Sorba of California Young Americans for Freedom, who participated in the San Bernardino ACORN investigation, condemns CPAC for allowing gay Republican group GOProud to attend, then gets into a screaming match with part of the audience, yelling, “The lesbians at Smith College protest better than you do.”

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This is a sign of a growing schism in the ranks — the libertarian members of the new hard-edged conservatism are more inclined to be tolerant on the “social” issues like homosexuality, while the religious right contingent has an antipathy for gay rights that has reached a fever pitch recently.