Comments on: It gets better — except with GOProud

By: Dottie laird

Dottie laird — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:39:31 +0000

I too am baffled that people who seek tolerance and acceptance for who and what they are turn right around and berate and demand conformity from others in their fold. If they don’t center their lives around their sexual orientation as the activists want, they’re “self-loathing.” And here I thought we all wanted to be free to live as we please. Silly me.

By: Ed Taylor

Ed Taylor — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:51:06 +0000

While I am not a fan of Ann Coulter, I hold the gay establishment in equal disdain. Both are self-promoting.

I read the worried comment about a group supporting Barney Franks opponent. I do not have a dog in that fight, but will say I have cringed each time Barney’s embarrassing behavior has been brought up.

Economically illiterate Obama also opposes gay marriage & is appealing the DOMA ruling. Shall we run enmasse to embrace his opponent?

The guy is an embarrassment to the community. One husband busted for a prostitution business, one working on bogus mortgage products at Freddie Mac, and another growing pot in his backyard.

Yeah, lets all run to his defense.

Our community is made up of individuals. Only fools buy into group-think, and tow the line.

By: Skeeter Sanders

Skeeter Sanders — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:18:40 +0000

Personally, I think Ann Coulter is a closet case of a different kind: A vicious, venom-spewing male chauvinist pig who, despite having had gender-reassignment surgery, is STILL a male chauvinist pig.

And as we all know, male chauvinist pigs are the worst kind of homophobes.

By: Joe Eagar

Joe Eagar — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 07:00:12 +0000

Ann Coulter stated “when tehy find the gay gene, guess whose getting aborted?” to advocate a pro-life stance, shared by many concerned gay and bisexual individuals (that parents will choose to have gay/bi babies aborted).

Other gay conservatives like Coulter because they see a potential future ally–I’m not sure I agree. She seems to view herself as a “centrist” between social conservatives and gay conservatives (halfway between center-right and far-right) and I’m not sure that is a viable political strategy.

@Jerry: Not all conservatives are “conservative” in a traditional sense. These days there are libertarians, classical liberals, and even 1960s center-left civil libertarians in the conservative movement–to such a great extent there may very well be more classically liberal or libertarian “conservatives” then fascist or social ones. Nowadays there are debates on what exactly we should be conserving. :)

Reforming the social conservatives brings us a lot of joy–watching them grow out of their biases and programming is a wonderful process. Simply writing them off as bigots is ignoring their humanity.

I imagine you’ve had similar personal experiences with the far right as I’ve had with the far left. Neither side is correct. My family had extremely nasty experiences with the far left–and I’ve said much the same things you yourself have about the left.

I understand how horrifying the other “side” can look, but each has a wide range of factions and a great many intolerant, bigoted groups.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 03:35:26 +0000

Unfortunate that those who pull themselves from the gay victimhood mire become villainized by the same people preaching tolerance, diversity and acceptance.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:32:47 +0000

GOProud is made up of individuals who are proud of who they are. So is the KKK. There is at least one difference. Those in the KKK know how to hide when it looks like society might stomp on them. Those in GOProud make me think of the Jews in Germany in the 1930s who thought they were safe.

By: Adam Bink » Blog Archive » Announcements

Adam Bink » Blog Archive » Announcements — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:26:15 +0000

[...] October 22nd, 2010: This morning the Washington Blade published an op-ed I wrote regarding how GOProud, a new organization that claims to “represent gay conservatives and their allies”, is contributing to an unsafe environment of anti-LGBT bullying through their actions. You can read the op-ed at the Washington Blade’s website by clicking here. [...]