Posted on 09/05/2010 10:56:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
In the wake of a dispute between WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah and conservative author Ann Coulter over her decision to headline an event sponsored by GOProud, a gay conservative organization, Farah and GOProud Chairman Christopher Barron will square off in a debate later this month at WND’s convention.
Barron told The Daily Caller that Farah challenged him to debate over whether GOProud can be considered “conservative” after Farah argued on his site that there is no place within conservatism for an organization like GOProud, a group that promotes itself as “the only national organization representing gay conservatives and their allies.” TheDC is waiting for confirmation from WND about the debate’s details.
Farah dropped Coulter from a speaking engagement at WND’s annual “Taking America Back” convention in Miami for agreeing to speak at GOProud’s “Homocon” party in New York. (Coulter later said that Farah had never actually booked her for a speech, calling him a “swine” and a “publicity whore.”)
Farah contends that groups like GOProud are trying to commit a “coup” to unroot the conservative movement with an “agenda…to take the homosexual agenda inside the conservative tent.”
Barron insists that his group is genuinely conservative and said he looks forward taking on Farah in front of a WND crowd.
“Since we announced that conservative author and columnist Ann Coulter would be headlining our Homocon 2010 in New York City, Farah has attacked GOProud, attacked Ann, and challenged our work almost every single day,” Barron said in a statement to The Daily Caller. “I look forward to standing on the stage with Mr. Farah to defend GOProud, to debunk the misinformation he has spread, and to make the case for GOProud’s conservative mission.”
Barron added that conservatism stands at a major crossroads in its acceptance of gays into the movement. A number of high profile conservatives, including Lisa De Pasquale of the Conservative Political Action Conference, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform and former General Counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee Craig Engle, have signed on as official sponsors of GOProud’s event.
The debate will be held on September 17 at 7:30 PM at the Doral Golf and Spa Resort in Miami, Florida.
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And you say this because?
With what you consider entertaining anecdote about what I may think the opinions of others are or what others might do or feel about this or that?
Thanks but no thanks -I prefer to stick my neck out -I prefer to offer up and stick with my opinions on topics I am interested in discussing and debating rather than taking the meek position of anecdotal contributor or ambivalent observer without opinion when provoked...
You know -that there lead, follow, or get out of the way stuff that even skimmers with spine employ...
Wooden ships and iron men -NOT fairies on patrol...
Well they should’ve been kicked out, the problem is if DADT is repealed, then the homos will be a protected class and the DI’s won’t be able to look the other way unless it’s a bunch of senior enlisted homos assaulting a young recruit.
Well if the DI’s aren’t near the showers and nobody saw anything but a fool walk into a doorjamb.....
A few Big Chicken Dinners get served and the rest will fall in line.
Yes, that's how things work in the military.
But you can’t answer my simple questions.
Weasel words.
More than one on this thread alone.
ZOT ‘em all, let MOD sort ‘em out.
Post 203 made a good point. And no, they didn’t learn. And they were hated. The military was not meant to be a homosexual buffet.
Yup. Infested.
Two reasons:
A.) The economy sucks. Nobody with a full-time job in the military is going anywhere.
B.) For better or worse, today's young recruits are more tolerant of homosexuality than previous generations.
Somehow, stating these two perceptions has gotten me labeled "pro-gays in the military".
For more detailed replies, please read the collection of my posts that LJ kindly took upon herself to compile in Post 153.
So many people have their heads in the sand.
Sometimes you need to get away from FR once in a while and see the real world.
I "get" your "point," LOL, but what I mean is that just because a sexual practice is disgusting to kindergartners (they all should be!) doesn't mean that its practitioners "advocate" it. What you do with your wife alone behind closed doors is not something you go around "advocating."
That people are sheep. Not a ton of outspoken Jewish, Hispanic, or black conservative leaders speaking out either.
I will bet you $100 that I feel exactly about gays as does Dick Cheney. He is no lady.
I should not have said that. I apologize.
Of all people, I know FR accepts all of us. However, on these threads I see that gay conservatives would NOT be welcome here, and that is very sad to me.
Gays are born that way. Just as sexual development occurs in utero, so does the hardwiring for orientation. Don't take my word for it; research it yourself.
http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1253390
So there would be a lot of good conservatives who would be turned away because they love someone of their own sex, through as much fault of their own as people with Down Syndrome or Diabetes 1.
I have to tell you that I'm STILL laughing about this. My brothers friends have joked about owing stock in K-Y Jelly.
He was saying that if a kindergartner knows such a thing is gross, why would we accept people who "advocate" anal sex. Do you "advocate" oral sex? Come on. A kindergartner better think BOTH are gross! :)
I'll take the company of Dick Cheney's over that of Joseph Farah's any day.
Farah is no friend of conservatism and the sooner that publicity whore and his Wing Nut Daily rag disappear, the better.
Of course they advocate it.
Ever heard of Kevin Jennings? Or GLSEN? Or “Days of Silence”? If you do a FR search using “homosexual agenda” as keyword, you’ll see pages and pages of evidence showing that homosexuals not only promote anal sodomy but do so to children.
No one is born homosexual. Any more than anyone is born a thief or a liar.
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