Posted on 08/18/2010 12:15:24 PM PDT by Amerisrael
[I'll say up front I'm in disagreement with the "LID" on this one]:
"World Net Daily has decided to drop conservative pundit and author, Ann Coulter as the keynote speaker for WND's "Taking America Back National Conference" next month. Because of her plan be the keynote speaker at "HOMOCON," an event put together by GOProud the first genuinely conservative group for gay Republicans."
"WND Editor Joseph Farah reports this exchange with Ms Coulter:
'Asked by Farah why she was speaking to GOProud, Coulter said: "They hired me to give a speech, so I'm giving a speech. I do it all the time."
Farah then asked: "Do you not understand you are legitimizing a group that is fighting for same-sex marriage and open homosexuality in the military not to mention the idea that sodomy is just an alternate lifestyle?"
Coulter responded: "That's silly, I speak to a lot of groups and do not endorse them. I speak at Harvard and I certainly don't endorse their views..."
"Obviously Farah does not agree with the Ronald Reagan Statement The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally not a 20 percent traitor."
"According to Farah the reason for their rejection of GOProud their support of same-sex marriage and military service for open homosexuals. A look at the group's web site shows those issues are not the groups priorities."
(Excerpt) Read more at yidwithlid.blogspot.com ...
Please, please read the GOProud’s ageanda that I posted above:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2573084/posts?page=25#25
Their agenda is NOT CONSERVATIVE!
Please read it. They are not an ally of conservatives, they are inimical to conservative principles other than the token gun rights and supposedly “holding the line” at gov spending, but they want lots of tax money for “gay” rights. Read it!
It is not complex. It’s very simple. The agenda of the GOProud is not conservative, it is homosexual agenda “gay” rights. With a teensy bit of conservative stuff tossed in to leaven it.
It’s not rocket science. If Coulter goes in and tells them to get their act together and quit pushing “gay” rights and get on the conservative bandwagon, great. But I won’t hold my breath.
Probably. The states have WAAAAY more power than the Fed. It's time they push it.
As to special rights for homosexuals, that's the states province and rights fail everytime it's voted on. The Feds need to be slapped spitless by the states.
Not following the pterodactyls statement?
What I meant was that Coulter seems to have more of an agenda than meets the eye. Does she really think she can win them over, detach them from gay “rights”? I don’t think so. So why go speak there unless she wants to pick a fight?
Ann Coulter pander????
They will be lcky if she doesn’t bitch-slap a couple of them...
Do you even KNOW who Ann Coulter is????
you’re a dork for saying tha
really, you are
Ann Coulter is one of our greatest assets. She was hired to speak- nothing more. She was not paid to endorse them or their views.
IT would be NICE if liberals listened to opposing viewpoints more often, isnt that we want??
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This is the reason that I am not a "fan" of ANY pundit. I am a conservative because I believe in it NOT because I get paid.
Before or after she accepts their money?
NAIL ON HEAD
It’s sick for so called “conservatives” to call standing up for what is right (and BTW WND never did attack homosexuals, only homosexuality-rightly so as God also did this in both the Old Testament/Torah & Prophets, as well as the New Testament).
You’re darn right they showed “intolerance” for evil practices that is (and that’s not a bad thing).
Way to go WND for standing up for what is right, boo for sellouts of conservatism like Ann Coulter, and apparently “The Lid”.\
I assume that her speech will be taped and will show up on FR. Then we will see what she’s up to.
A. Read the GOProud’s legislative agenda. Federal.
B. We won’t know what Coulter is up to until she gives her speech. If she doesn’t give them hell about their agenda, she’s a sellout.
What do you think about the GOProud’s agenda? I’d like to hear your opinion of it.
For instance:
Homosexuals in the military? Same sex marriage? Special money for “gay” businesses? Interfering in other countries who aren’t on the “gay” rights bandwagon?
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I don’t see a problem with a group having whomever they want, or don’t want, as a keynote speaker. So what? Why does everything have to be fobbed off as “intolerant”?
You are not wrong. However, it is way too much to call Farrah’s actions “intolerant.”
I am sick of PC nonsense being applied by our own side to our own disagreements and divergent points of views.
I wonder if Coulter would speak to a Planned Parenthood convention? And, if so, what would she say?
And Joseph Farrah is merely exercising his right to free association (or not).
If WND is his business (I don’t know enough about it to know), he should be able to hire or fire those people he thinks are best for his business — without our side blathering on with PC nonsense about “intolerance.”
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