Coulter and the Homocons

The "conservative Judy Garland" at the GOProud fundraiser:

"Gays are the molecular opposites of blacks," Ann Coulter tells a room full of gay men (some of them black), because "everybody likes the gays moving in next door." And yet, the self-proclaimed right-wing Judy Garland explains, gay marriage "is not a civil right — you're not black."

Welcome to Homocon 2010, a fundraiser for gay conservative organization GOProud, held in PayPal founder Peter Thiel's candlelit New York apartment on Saturday night. Tickets went for $2,500, and the attendees — from middle-aged millionaires in dark suits to twenty-somethings in T-shirts proclaiming FREEDOM IS FABULOUS — are laughing uproariously at Coulter's punch lines. Afterward they hug her, beg for photos, and thank her "for saying what needs to be said" and "for everything you do."

This inexplicable, masochistic affection for Coulter (who went on to say that "I don't care how many studies Ted Olson produces" about gay couples making good parents, because the ideal is "one mother, one father") mirrors the conflicted loyalties of gay conservatives: who do you listen to when Republicans demonize you to win an election? Coulter may continue the line that gay marriage "was foisted on Americans by the courts," but as a movement, these men — and some women — remain more serious than their keynote speaker in their efforts to shift the GOP establishment into focusing on economic issues rather than social ones.

After all, it was Olson, George W. Bush's Solicitor General, who successfully argued for overturning California's Prop 8, and the Log Cabin Republicans who won a lawsuit that (kinda) overturned Don't Ask, Don't Tell — while Democrats failed to push the repeal through Congress, and the Obama Administration continues to defend a discriminatory policy that it opposes.
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In her speech on Saturday, Coulter says that "not only can gays be conservative, you pretty much have to be," because they are the "highest income demographic," because "gays are too stylish to work for the federal government," because radical Muslims want to execute them, and because "once [scientists] find the gay gene, guess who's getting aborted?"

This is the same Coulter, of course, who is comfortable with the word "faggot," wrote that Rick Santorum's comparison of gay sex to bestiality is an "indisputably true point," told an interviewer that sexually active gay men should "feel guilty about it," and mocked the "irritating lesbian" teenager in Tennessee who wanted to bring her girlfriend to senior prom. When The Politics Blog asks her why gay conservatives still gravitate toward her, Coulter dips back to the humor well: "Gays are the least politically correct people in the world — they like my jokes." And then there's this, which is apparently not a joke because she repeats the sentiment a half-dozen times throughout the night: "Gays are against gay marriage."

Never mind that numerous attendees (especially the younger ones) challenge her viewpoint on Constitutional grounds during the question-and-answer session. "The equality clause is about just the blacks," she snaps in response. Nevertheless, this isn't a dealbreaker for her gay fans. As lesbian conservative radio host Tammy Bruce — a GOProud advisor — whispers to a friend, "She's so wrong, but I love her."
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So it would seem, from one strange night anyway, that gay conservatives don't mind government intervention as long as it levels the playing field. They don't want equal results, just equal opportunity, and it's hard to argue with that — unless, of course, you're Ann Coulter, who is aware of the irony in her position: "I'm 120 years old and I'm not married." Which leaves you wondering: Is this culture warrior serious about every word that comes out of her mouth, or none of them?

The answer, whatever it means, is "yes."

I can hear the groans of "Post this on your new blog, woncha?" I will once it's up and running. I'm just storing stuff here meanwhile.

An example of the type of stuff I will be posting on my new blog

I've posted stuff like this here before but this topic is of little interest to my regular readers. Hopefully it will be of interest to the young homos I will be trying to reach and help them to articulate their budding conservatism, patriotism and dislike of the so-called "gay agenda."

From Politico - They're gay, conservative and proud:

NEW YORK — Even among the gays, the right is on the rise.

The broad surge in the conservative grassroots made it as far as PayPal founder Peter Thiel’s grand apartment overlooking New York’s Union Square Tuesday night, where about 150 backers of the conservative gay group GOProud gathered to laugh at Ann Coulter’s red meat riffs on Democrats, blacks, and the Obamas at a fundraiser organizers touted as “Homocon.”

GOProud is the tea party of the gay rights movement, with well-tailored dark suits in place of revolutionary war garb.
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GOProud is an explicitly gay group that isn’t particularly focused on gay rights, and Coulter’s speech – full of conservative red meat, and only the occasional Judy Garland joke – reflected its focus.

The gay right is thriving at a moment that the mainstream gay rights movement faces a profound crisis.

The set of Washington-based establishment groups led by the Human Rights Campaign have close ties to the White House and have turned gay righs into a plan of the Democratic Party platform.
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The realization that their alliance with the Democratic Party has – for the moment – failed to produce key policy shifts is producing a round of finger-pointing and bloodletting inside the traditional gay rights movement, with calls for resignations and turns toward the courts and toward civil disobedience.

The gay right, meanwhile, has taken its place at the vanguard.
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“We’re Joe Miller; Log Cabin is Lisa Murkowski,” said GOProud founder Chris Barron, dismissively. “We’re not interested in having a seat at the table as part of the establishment.”

Attendees at “Homocon” universally attributed the rise of the gay right to the rising conservative tide generally.

“It really was the economy stupid. There’s a move to the right in general,” said Thiel, who was also an early investor in Facebook and is a prominent supporter of libertarian causes. "An awful lot of Republicans want to get out of the gay issue in general.”
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Coulter’s presence at the event was controversial, as other gay activists pointed out that she’d made a series of anti-gay remark — she called former presidential candidate John Edwards a "faggot" — which she explained away at the top of her speech as humor.

“The people who get gay jokes are gays,” she said, adding that when she talks to Christian audience, “Out of sweetness they don’t laugh at the gay jokes.”

Coulter’s jokes Tuesday riffed on the theme that GOProud doesn’t make same-sex marriage central to its appeal; it considers, Barron says, national security and the economy more important.

Marriage “is not a civil right – you’re not black,” Coulter said to nervous laughter. She went on to note that gays are among the wealthiest demographic groups in the country.

“Blacks must be looking at the gays saying, ‘Why can’t we be oppressed like that?’”
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One, radio host Tammy Bruce, who is on GOProud’s board, said the moment has the “same energy” as the radical ACT-UP protests in the 1980s, which drew attention to the AIDS crisis.
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As for Coulter, she told POLITICO the embrace of gays on the right could only be reciprocated.

“Right wingers have always liked gays. Look at all of Ronald Reagan’s gay friends,” she said, proceeding to cite an unverified rumor dating back half a century: “Look at my personal hero Joe McCarthy and his” – airquotes – “special assistant.”

It looks like Tammy Bruce has finally switched from being Democrat to Republican.

Joe McCarthy's “special assistant” was Roy Cohn whose lover, G. David Schine, also worked for McCarthy. I wrote about this 3 years ago.

From L to R - Schine, Cohn and McCarthy:

Joseph Farah vs Ann Coulter

Farah's website is WorldNetDaily. Ace posted an email that Farah wrote to Coulter about her acceptance of an invitation to speak at Homocon:

Whether you believe it or not, or whether or not it is your intent, your acceptance of this speaking engagement is affirming GOProud, which is, I'm sure you've noticed, winning the hearts and minds in the conservative movement – with CPAC, Grover Norquist and others who don't necessarily bring a Judeo-Christian worldview to the party. GOProud is having a field day marketing you and legitimizing itself further in the conservative movement through its association with you.

It's a very big deal, Ann, and it's bigger than you. Glenn Beck threw in the towel last week on same-sex marriage, saying since it doesn't affect him, it doesn't matter. Materialistic utilitarianism – much of the conservative movement is moving in that direction.

I believe this is a time when God is calling his people to stand up for what's right.

Ace comments:

Here's what I think of Farah's position: It's poison. It's not merely political poison, it is moral poison.
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The GOP cannot be an overtly, officially religious party charged with monitoring everyone's personal sins. It cannot be. Ever. I view the party on morality as I view it on economics. A government cannot create wealth; it can only, and should only endeavor to, foster a wealth-friendly environment in which wealth-creation is likely.

Similarly, a government cannot mandate what sort of sex is legal and what sex is illegal. It can only foster a morality-friendly environment win which moral behavior is likely.
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Farah's position is essentially that gays simply cannot be conservatives at all and must be purged from the party. He does not seem to be an opponent of a policy, but an opponent of specific people. That doesn't strike me as fair, conservative, or keeping with the American way of doing things.

I can't help but notice that homosexuality is elevated to rather higher position on the food-pyramid of sins than seems necessary. I note that in my every day life, I wrestle with all sorts of sins: Sloth, probably at the top, then Lust, then Envy, then Wrath.... actually, all four of those are separated only by the slightest titches; it's nearly a four-way tie. Pride and Gluttony aren't far behind, either.

And other sins too. Premarital sex? Sex only for lustful purposes and not procreation? Yeah, I'm all about that.

I presume Joseph Farah is as well -- on that last point. I am not prepared to believe that he only engages in sex for purposes of creating children. I do not believe that is true of nearly anyone.

I'll tell you one sin I never have to wrestle with: the sin of homosexual fornication. Why? Because I'm straight. It never even occurs to me that gee, maybe if I'm not scoring with the ladies lately I should change up my game and try for a dude.

Never. Not once has it even crossed my mind.

And I submit that this is true for 99.9% of straight men, which in turn means it's true of 97.7% of men, period.

So Farah is essentially elevating to the position of Worst Sin the one sin he has absolutely zero chance of committing, zero chance of even being tempted by.

I find this breathtakingly convenient. According to Farah's priorities, hell, I'm a pretty moral guy -- never had gay sex, never wanted to have gay sex, never even thought about gay sex. So I'm pretty pure, right?

Of course I'm not. I'm just not guilty of that sin, but I'm not free of that sin due to devotion to God or exercise of willpower or the strengthening power of faith: I'm free of that sin for the same reason I'm free of the sin (were it a sin) of eating tarantulas. Because I don't want to.

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By the way: Ann Coulter's been unmarried her whole life. And yet, at her age (I assume she's 29, like me; I mean, I will be 29, in November), she has dated a bunch of guys.

I don't want to invade her privacy: But am I to understand that Joseph Farah believes she was celibate throughout this time period? That her various boyfriends were content with some hand-holding and maybe some light necking?

Am I to understand he is that childishly naive?

So my question is: What was he doing keeping this shameless wanton hedonist whore on his payroll in the first place?

Ace is always a bit emphatic. I'm not sure if Farah's views are political and moral "poison." All I know is that he is entitled to his opinion but I don't like anyone telling me what God's opinion is. It's stuff like that that puts me off religion, churches and especially preachers. As soon as someone tells me that he knows what God thinks, I start thinking about the voodoo, witch-doctors and other primitive superstitious mumbo-jumbo that I saw growing up among the Zulus.

I see that Coulter has accused Farah of being a ‘publicity whore’:

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter responded today to the announcement that WorldNetDaily was dropping her as a speaker for one of their events, calling WorldNetDaily Editor Joseph Farah a “publicity whore” and a “swine.”

Coulter was bumped from the speakers list of WND’s September “Taking America Back National Conference ”after it was announced that she had accepted a speaking gig at a New York City party hosted by GOProud, a Washington-based group that represents gay conservatives.

“[F]arah is doing this for PUBLICITY and publicity alone,” Coulter wrote in an email to The Daily Caller on Wednesday afternoon.

WND posted an email exchange between Coulter and Farah in their public announcement that she would be removed from the list of speakers. Coulter expressed anger that he quoted her from their private email on the issue.

“[T]his was an email exchange [between] friends and even though I didn’t expressly say “OFF THE RECORD” and I believe everything I said, he’s a swine for using my private emails politely answering him.” Coulter wrote in the email to TheDC. “[W]hy would he do such a despicable thing? … for PUBLICITY.”

The conservative pundit said that WND is well known for making decisions just to get attention, citing the conspiracist site’s regular articles about President Obama’s birth certificate.

“I will say that [Farah] could give less than two sh-ts about the conservative movement — as demonstrated by his promotion of the birther nonsense (long ago disproved by my newspaper, human events, also sweetness & light, american spectator and national review etc, etc etc). He’s the only allegedly serious conservative pushing the birther thing. for ONE reason: to get hits on his website.”

Coulter added that she would not be losing anything from the dropped speaking engagement since WND had not been able to come up with the money to pay her anyway.

Ann may not be the "perfect conservative" but she's a damn good capitalist sow.

PS I'm not a total sinner. I don't eat pork.

Why Right Wing News Is Sponsoring Homocon

John Hawkins:

Last week, after the announcement that RWN is sponsoring Homocon, people started asking me why RWN chose to promote that event.

After all, I'm against gays in the military, I'm a strong supporter of Prop 8, and I'm very much in favor of a Federal Marriage Amendment. So, why back a gay group that doesn't agree with me on any of those issues?

Well, let's start from scratch. First of all, RWN has a history of supporting gay conservatives. At one point or another, RWN has interviewed Andrew Sullivan (in his pro-war days), Tammy Bruce, Matt Sanchez, and Christopher Barron from GOProud. Additionally, Matt Sanchez has written for the website and B. Daniel Blatt from Gay Patriot still writes for RWN while Jeff Gannon and the blogger from the now defunct Boi from Troy were invited to participate in RWN's blogger polls. So, sponsoring an event like Homocon isn't a big break from what RWN has done in the past.

Moreover, from what I've seen of GOProud, it's an enormous improvement over the Log Cabin Republicans. Let me tell you why: the Log Cabin Republicans have some conservative members, but organizationally, they are a left-of-center gay group. They are funded by Democratic money and their agenda is almost identical to that of most of the liberal gay groups out there.

In all honesty, I don't consider the group to be conservative or even Republican in any meaningful sense. Keep in mind that this is the same group that even declined to endorse George W. Bush in 2004. Yet, take a look at all the establishment Republicans showing up for a Log Cabin Republican fundraiser just three days before Homocon:



After seeing that, isn't it a little ironic that Ann Coulter's appearance at Homocon is causing so much controversy?

Hawkins goes into a lot more detail and concludes:

Still, there's a world of difference between saying, "This is the Republican Party's position on this issue" and saying, "This is the Republican Party's position on this issue and to be a Republican, you have to agree with it." A political party that holds the former position can be both principled and have a big tent, while a political party that holds the latter position is doomed to purge heretics on one issue after the other until it dies an ignominious death. Additionally, no matter what your race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation may be, you should be welcomed into the Republican Party and the conservative movement. If there are people who don't agree with that, if there are people who think a gay conservative or a gay Republican is a contradiction of terms, then we're just never going to see eye-to-eye.

I really don't expect conservatives to ever approve of gays but as Reagan said: "an 80% friend is not a 20% enemy" and homocons believe in probably more than 80% of the GOP agenda. Some want gay "marriage" but many don't. From GOProud's website:

GOProud represents gay conservatives and their allies. GOProud is committed to a traditional conservative agenda that emphasizes limited government, individual liberty, free markets and a confident foreign policy. GOProud promotes our traditional conservative agenda by influencing politics and policy at the federal level.

On the other hand, the Log Cabin Club endorsed Kerry against Bush in 2004. I'm baffled that Cornyn and Sessions are involved.

HomoCon: "Our gays are more macho than their straights"

HOMOCON 2010:

Saturday, September 25
Sponsor Reception 6 – 6:30 pm
General Reception 6:30 – 8 pm
New York City

with special guest ANN COULTER!

Sponsorships available now $2,500 (includes 2 tickets)

General admission tickets on sale August 20th $250

Ann Coulter the right wing Judy Garland?

PS Gay Republicans are vilified by leftist fags as "rich white selfish racists."