Ryan Sorba

Gay-Bashing CPACer Has Checkered Legal History

Justin Elliott | February 23, 2010, 11:52AM

Ryan Sorba at CPAC 2010

The man who cited natural law in an off-script anti-gay rant at CPAC has had two run-ins with the real law in the past decade, including a restraining order for domestic violence, according to court records in California.

Ryan Sorba of California Young Americans for Freedom, who is a longtime anti-gay activist, in 2001 had a restraining order brought against him by a woman in a San Bernardino County domestic violence case, according to case records.

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