Bryan Fischer really wants to love Ann Coulter, even though she took a speaking engagement with the dreaded GOProud. He is even willing to forgive, now that it is over.
I did say that Ann might surprise us all and take the homosexuals straight on, but guessed that a desire not to upset her hosts, who surely paid a princessly sum to entice her into speaking and appearing on all their promotional posters, would likely prevent her from getting up in their business.
Well, I was wrong.
Ann took them straight on and gave them some straight talk I doubt they were ready for. There is no amount of sugar that will help this medicine go down.
Fischer read this write up of the event in Politico and got all misty:
And Ann, all is forgiven. Humble pie has never tasted so sweet. You are no longer the “Joan of Arc of homosexuality,” as I described you last month, you are now Daniella of the Lion’s Den. Good on ya, lass.
Not sure what he was eating in that humble pie. Coulter never met a group she couldn’t insult so her comments seem in character and her take on it seemed different than Fischer’s.
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.”
Some right wingers like gays so much they take them on trips to lift their luggage, although I am not sure that is what Coulter meant. Mr. Fischer on the other hand might need a new column to deal with Daniella of the Lions Den’s fondness for gays.
UPDATE: Well perhaps Ann didn’t heart the GOProud crowd quite as much as Politico made it seem. Here is another view via RightWingWatch, from another attendee.
UPDATE: Or maybe she did a little more than the attendee above experienced. Read this conservative gay man’s take on the situation. The gay marriage argument was a very un-Fischer type argument, according to Alex Knepper at Frum Forum:
You conservative gays don’t actually care about this activist crap like marriage, or serving in the military. Ultimately, what you really want is some sort of assurance that Americans are accepting of gays, not marriage itself. Gay marriage initiatives don’t fail because Americans hate gay people; they fail because marriage is fundamentally about rearing children. Most Americans love gay people; they just don’t want that institution extended.
I’ll let conservative gays respond to that but it is probably not enough to let Ann keep her Warrior Princess badge.
I haven’t laughed so hard all week – thank you for that one 😉
I haven’t laughed so hard all week – thank you for that one 😉
Used to have somewhat of a grudging respect for Coulter up to her last book or two. It was then that she showed that she did not have a mind of her own and started parroting idiotic creationist arguments as real science.
SE Cupp is more my speed. Although even as a conservative, gay-loving atheist, she walks off the cliff at times also.
This from World Net Daily:
This jibes poorly with Politico’s assertion that “[Coulter’s] presence marked the increasingly mainstream Republican embrace of gay rights.”
Anne Coulter loves gays in the same what that Cthulhu loves people.
Used to have somewhat of a grudging respect for Coulter up to her last book or two. It was then that she showed that she did not have a mind of her own and started parroting idiotic creationist arguments as real science.
SE Cupp is more my speed. Although even as a conservative, gay-loving atheist, she walks off the cliff at times also.
They’re well suited: a foul-minded liar and an unprincipled mountebank.
This from World Net Daily:
This jibes poorly with Politico’s assertion that “[Coulter’s] presence marked the increasingly mainstream Republican embrace of gay rights.”
Anne Coulter loves gays in the same what that Cthulhu loves people.
They’re well suited: a foul-minded liar and an unprincipled mountebank.