Annals of Hypocrisy: GOP Gay Group Featuring Gay-Basher Ann Coulter
Former Democratic U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards is a âf-----,â according to conservative provocateur and author Ann Coulter some years back. Nobel Prize winner, former vice president and one-time Democratic candidate for president Al Gore, she said on a separate occasion, is a âtotal f--.â
So when an organization that bills itself as representing âgay conservatives and their alliesâ was looking for a speaker at its first annual âHomoconâ party in New York City this September, who did they hire?
Why, Ann Coulter, of course.
âThe gay left has done their best to take all the fun out of politics, with their endless list of boycotts and protests,â Christopher Barron, chairman of the board of an outfit calling itself GOProud, explained in a prepared statement. âI canât think of any conservative more fun to headline our inaugural party then the self-professed âright-wing Judy Garlandâ â Ann Coulter.â
It seems unlikely that Judy Garland would have insinuated that Bill Clinton was gay, not to mention implying that that would have been bad. Coulter did. And it was Coulter who just this February said of openly gay Department of Education official Kevin Jennings: âJenningsâ idea of a good sixth grade field trip is to take the kids to the Tony Awards,â which are given for excellence in theater. In the same talk, she added, âThese days a moderate Democrat is one who thinks children in the public schools shouldnât be taught fisting until theyâre at least 12 years old â okay, 11.â
Coulterâs âf-----â comment about Edwards came at an annual Conservative Political Action Conference â CPAC â and drew enormous negative publicity, earning her the enmity of many of her fellow conservatives. Arch-conservative blogger Michelle Malkin was among them. âWith a single word, Coulter sullied the hard work of hundreds of CPAC participants and exhibitors and tarred the collective reputation of thousands of CPAC attendees,â Malkin wrote.
Accuracy in Mediaâs Cliff Kincaid is a notorious gay basher, but even he found Coulterâs comment offensive. He wrote a column that labeled Coulter the Britney Spears of the right, adding that âCoulter must be a liberal infiltrator whose purpose is to give conservatism a bad name.â
Apparently, none of this history bothered GOProud officials. Maybe theyâre comforted by the fact Coulterâs homosexual slurs have been aimed only at Democrats. But itâs hard to know. Nobody at GOProud responded to a Hatewatch email asking why Coulter, as opposed to a conservative with no history of using derogatory language about gays, was invited to be the groupâs keynote speaker n September.
GoProudâs emphasis, however, is on politics, not civil rights. âWe are Republicans and conservatives who believe in limited government, individual liberty, free markets, a strong national defense and a confident foreign policy,â its website states. âWe believe that every individual should be equal under the law. We support candidates for federal office who share our priorities.â
So perhaps Coulter will treat her listeners to a new diatribe about the 9/11 widows â you know, those âbroadsâ who are âenjoying their husbandsâ deaths so much.â Maybe sheâll offer another , which has called black people a âretrograde species of humanity.â In addition to despising blacks and Jews, the same CCC that Coulter contended is unfairly branded as racist has also called gay people âperverted sodomites.â
No wonder GOProudâs Christopher Barron envisions a âfunâ night with Coulter on the dais. What could be more knee-slapping hilarious than a stream of invective from somebody who says liberals are traitors and hate America, who has wished for John Edwardsâ assassination, who has called Muslims âr-------,â and opined that Jews need to be âperfectedâ?
And Coulter is looking forward to the fun, too. On GOProudâs website, she is quoted as saying, âI am thrilled to be giving a speech to a room full of gay conservatives, because according to every single liberal Iâve ever met, such people donât even exist!"