Sounds like a constructive convention (propaganda wise, had the oath story not come out, I guess it would have been):

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation required families coming to Washington for the group’s convention last month to promise not to express disagreement with the group’s stance in favor of expanding embryonic stem-cell research.
The group’s application for families attending their biennial Children’s Congress in Washington last month included the following language: “if there is discussion of such controversial topics as embryonic stem-cell research, I will either embrace the JDRF legislative position on such topics or will not work against the JDRF position.”
Several House Republicans angrily complained, saying the group was silencing families…