Maybe America's favorite bigot is thinking of a political career after all. Here's an example of Ann Coulter trying to have it both ways from Q&A at the CPAC conference last week.
"And of course, if you're working for a Republican candidate, you'll meet some nice heterosexual guys. By the way, before I let that slide, I do want to point out one thing that has been driving me crazy with the media, how they keep describing Mitt Romney's position as being "pro-gays, and that's going to upset right-wingers." Well, you know, screw you, I'm not anti-gay. We're against gay marriage. I don't want gays to be discriminated against. I mean, I think we have, in addition to blacks, I don't know why all gays aren't Republicans. I think we have the pro-gay position, which is anti-crime and for tax cuts. Gays make a lot of money, and they're victims of crime. I mean, the way --no, they are."
Coulter's argument is that people can be as opposed to gay marriage as James Dobson without being "anti-gay." This is the same kind of thing defenders of segregation used to say during the pre-Civil Rights era. They all "loved" black people, but did not want blacks eating in the same restaurants, swimming in the same pools, going to the same schools, serving on the same juries, or voting in the same elections. Similarly, Coulter isn't "anti-gay," she just wants to exclude gays from being married--a condition that's just as normal and basic to American society as going to the same schools, eating in the same restaurants, and swimming in the same pools.
Coulter is telling gays that "you can be normal except in the case of marriage where we conservatives think you're too weird and perverted to be allowed to be normal."
Or maybe not.
Maybe she's telling gays that "you can be normal except in the case of marriage where we conservatives can raise money and get more votes by saying that you're too weird and perverted to be allowed to be normal. Sorry about that!"
Because if she wasn't anti-gay, that would be the only reason for Coulter to oppose gay marriage.
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This is indicative of what is, to me, the worst aspect of the Grand Old Party: full recognition that we live in a modern world. A world where science blatantly conflicts with the god they choose to pay empty lip services to, and will continue to so long as the Christians get to the polls. A world where genetics has disproved the assumptions of racist eugenics, but every black politician is “surprisingly articulate.” A world where citizens recognize the vast spectrum of heterosexuals, homosexuals, intersexuals, and transsexuals that make up our collective species, while Republicans continue to discuss the roles of men and women, as if they were static caskets everyone fit neatly into. This modern world is fully recognized by the GOP, and just as swiftly ignored.
It's not, they're so quick to remind us, that the GOP is racist, sexist, fundamentalist, or xenophobic. No, no, that's far from the case. They're just after the racist, sexist, fundamentalist, xenophobic vote. It's all about "winning" the election, and pushing onward, "staying the course." But the course went wrong. The course became wrong as soon as Republicans realized they could auction their values off to the highest and most frequent bidders.
This “course” lead us to a nation divided by sex, segregated by race, suspicious of orientation, cautious of "overt offense." By saying she's not "anti-gay," Coulter is essentially saying that it's okay for a strong, moral Republican, the party backbone, to find doubt the bigotry their party is feeding them. Doubt all you like. How could you not? It is, after all, quite insubstantial upon second viewing. Question yourself, your religion, and your community members.
So long as you vote Republican, Coulter doesn't seem to mind if you are, in fact, a "pro-gay" Republican, if such a creature can exist. But beware the person who just wants to clarify and put things in order. Soon they'll be telling you why you aren't technically a person anymore, either.
That was interesting. You're right about a lot of people in the Republican Party rejecting the modern world. The right is composed of both racists, misogynists, homophobes, and religious bigots and those who gladly exploit various kinds of bigotries in order to get votes. That Coulter might be one of the latter makes her an even worse human being in my opinion.
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