Posted on 08/25/2010 6:14:17 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
First, Glenn Beck throws in the white flag on gay marriage, as Politics Daily reported earlier this month, and now Ann Coulter has gone AWOL on what just a short time ago was considered a battle flag issue for conservative culture warriors.
The latest controversy on the right began late last week when it was revealed that Coulter, the brutally straight-talking author and pundit, was going to headline next month's HomoCon 2010, an annual event organized by GOProud, a group of gay Republicans.
Coulter has been called "notoriously homophobic" by some critics, but she has also described herself as a gay-friendly "right-wing Judy Garland."
It was the HomoCon appearance, however, set for a Sept. 25 gala in New York, that put her beyond the pale for some of her fellow conservative Christians.
Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative news site WorldNetDaily, dumped Coulter from the upcoming Taking Back America event in Miami, saying the decision was "gut-wrenching" because the group loves Coulter, but that it was also necessary.
"Ultimately, as a matter of principle, it would not make sense for us to have Ann speak to a conference about 'taking America back' when she clearly does not recognize that the ideals to be espoused there simply do not include the radical and very 'unconservative' agenda represented by GOProud," said Farah. "The drift of the conservative movement to a brand of materialistic libertarianism is one of the main reasons we planned this conference from the beginning."
Coulter told Farah to chill. "They hired me to give a speech, so I'm giving a speech. I do it all the time."
But over the weekend the conflict started to go nuclear, which seems inevitable given the personalities involved.
On the early morning Fox News talk show, "The Red Eye," Coulter called out Farah and his allies for their objections to her HomoCon appearance.
"These are fake Christians trying to get publicity," she declared.
She also told The Daily Caller that Farah was a "publicity whore" and a "swine" who could "give less than two s---- about the conservative movement."
Game on.
"Coulter called me a 'publicity whore' for my decision. But look who is on television talking about this -- throwing mud, name-calling, smearing not only me but my entire staff," Farah responded in a statement.
"I will not engage in the kind of ad hominem attacks that have made Coulter so famous and that are making her even more of a media darling in this age of reckless anger and character assassination for the sake of entertainment. Every day, since we made this decision at WND, I thank God for giving me the clarity of mind and discernment to make the right choice."
"No enemies on the right" is an old bit of conservative wisdom. But now it's getting hard to figure out just where the right is.
Pray tell, how is she going to determine fake Christians? People who simply oppose her are fake Christians? Now she’s really put herself into a corner.
I have no problem with Anne Coulter speaking to a group of gay Republicans, but I also have no problem with Worldnet Daily dropping her. This is America. We’re all free to disagree, yes?
NAMBLA might pay for a speech and Ann can verbally attack their opponents too
Apparently if you disagree you are “fake”
They obviously have no clue what is driving the coming seismic shift.
I am not a fan of Coulter’s. But I’m with her on this one.
I dropped her when she and a few others (Ingraham, Boortz, Hewitt, Beck, O’Reilly, Medved and a few other vermin) laughed at and made fun of birthers. Screw her.
Maybe she’d come to her senses after she’d have her first decent meal in years.
>> Pray tell, how is she going to determine fake Christians?
I suppose that in Ann’s eyes a “fake Christian” ia one who hasn’t torn the pages out of their Bible that condemn faggotry.
My Bible is still intact however, and I’m proud to proclaim what it says, irrespective of what Ann thinks of me.
Money means more then anything else. SAD!
I’ve always thought that too. A cheeseburger or two and some chocolate cake wouldn’t hurt her at all.
Maybe she’d come to her senses after she’d have her first decent meal in years.True. You can be too rich and too thin.
Jesus spread the good news.... How did he get any followers unless he spoke to people who at the time were not believers?
If she can take the message of traditional marriage to that crowd, more power to her.
She is losin’ it bigtime .
>> If she can take the message of traditional marriage to that crowd, more power to her.
Sure, but that’s not what she’s doing. She’s seeking to bring them AND THEIR MISGUIDED VIEWS into the fold.
We already have a fat Meghan McCain. We don’t need a skinny one.
-- snip --...also, FYI; my fellow evangelicals — and I know lots and lots of ‘em — – all think it’s great that I’m doing this.
(of course, they know I’m not changing my mind on gay marriage even though I like gays.)
e-mail from Ann: (of course, they know I’m not changing my mind on gay marriage even though I like gays.)As I posted on one of the OTHER "homocon" threads:
This is at the heart of the problem, that Ann truly LIKES many gay people -- and THEY really like her.Many social conservatives seem to fear that Ann's close association with gay people on such a PERSONAL level will eventually effect her on a POLITICAL level...
...and they are concerned that Ann has had a "Ted Olson"-like conversion to the Dark Side.TED OLSON, as you may recall, is the widower of Ann's very good friend BARBARA OLSON -- who died on 9/11 in the hijacked plane that hit the Pentagon.
But recently, the previously conservative Ted Olson led the legal battle to get California's Proposition 8 (which defined marriage as only being between "one man and one woman") overturned in the courts...ANN, however, has shown NO similar signs of "going wobbly" on us -- beyond the fact that she apparently has many gay friends and admirers....and he seems to have been influenced to support gay marriage by his new lefty wife.
"Plied with drugs to control her weight and increase her productivity, Garland endured a decades-long struggle with prescription drug addiction. Garland was plaguedby financial instability, often owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. She married five times, with her first four marriages ending in divorce. She also attempted suicide on a number of occasions. Garland died of an accidental drug overdose at the age of 47..."
I gave up on her when she called the birthers, “CRANKS”, and used the KKK to imply that they were a nutty “fringe” group.
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