Gay conservatives are just like other gays! There’s not anything about their ideology that betrays fundamental psychological issues ranging from general self-loathing to a pathetic willingness to worship at the altar of people who view them as second class citizens, or anything like that! I mean, look at this breathless press release from Jimmy LaSalvia and Chris Barron of GOProud. Nothing pitiable here!

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, GOProud, the only national organization representing gay conservatives and their allies, announced that conservative author Ann Coulter is headlining their first annual Homocon – a party to celebrate gay conservatives. “The gay left has done their best to take all the fun out of politics, with their endless list of boycotts and protests. Homocon is going to be our annual effort to counter the ‘no fun police’ on the left,” said Christopher Barron, Chairman of the Board of GOProud. “I can’t think of any conservative more fun to headline our inaugural party then the self-professed ‘right-wing Judy Garland’ – Ann Coulter.”

Ann Coulter is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers —Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America (January 2009); If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans (October, 2007); Godless: The Church of Liberalism (June 2006); How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)(October, 2004); Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (June 2002); and High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (August 1998).

Homocon 2010 will take place in New York City on the evening of Saturday September 25th. VIP Sponsorships are available for $2500 and general admission tickets go on sale August 20th. To purchase tickets or for more information: www.goproud.org.

“I can promise you, Homocon 2010 will be a hell of a lot more fun than chaining yourself to the White House fence,” concluded Barron.

So basically, Ann Coulter will show up in whatever slutty black dress she found on the floor that morning, she’ll show up and deliver her brand of humor, which is discernible only to wingnuts, a bunch of bitter queens will say things like “Oh, you GO, gurl!” and shout “DIVA!,” and then she’ll collect her check and leave the starstruck fan boys behind to awkwardly fight the remaining demons in the room and grouse about how The Rest Of The Gays don’t make them feel welcome at their tea dances. Also…in what way, shape or form is Ann Coulter the “Judy Garland” of anything? I’d say she’s the Judy Garland of Adam’s Apples, but a horde of drag queens, past and present, would vociferously disagree.

Sounds like quite a night.

For the record, here are some of the things Ann Coulter has said about gay people, slurs she has used, courtesy of Jeremy:

One student asked what she would do if she had a child who came out as gay.

Coulter replied: “I’d say, `Did I ever tell you you’re adopted?’” [SOURCE]

Do I really need to post anything else that she’s said? Doesn’t that one statement show what kind of Stockholm Syndrome we’re dealing with? Here’s Ann talking about how Mike Huckabee is TOO PRO-GAY for her bigoted liking:

Huckabee claims he opposes gay marriage and says Scalia is his favorite justice, but he supports a Supreme Court decision denounced by Scalia for paving the way to a “constitutional right” to gay marriage. I guess Huckabee is one of those pro-sodomy, pro-gay marriage, pro-evolution evangelical Christians.”

What’s next, GOProud boys? Would you like me to see if I could get you some of Anita Bryant’s bathwater for you to use as the base for jello shots at your party?

If his only lady-choices were Nancy Pelosi and Helen Thomas, Mike Huckabee would be “for same-sex marriage,” presumably his own.

Seriously, that’s what he said.

BUT WHO WOULD YOU GAY MARRY, MIKE?

(This, of course, is an example of wingnut humor, which isn’t as much “funny” per se as it is an expression of a mean streak against people they perceive as uglier or weaker or lesser in some other way, which is then interpreted by other like-minded wingnuts as “humor.” This is part of why the Right never really produces real comedians. That Greg Gutfeld guy on Fox? That’s seriously the best they’ve got.)

Oh boy, Rosie really takes Mike Huckabee to task and gently, ever so gently, exposes him as a moron. In this clip, Rosie is talking to him about his lack of support for gay parenting, and over and over, he says he doesn’t “judge” gay families, but that we are not the “ideal.” Rosie calls that out as the coded dogwhistle language it is.

It’s worth listening to all seven minutes.

(h/t Good-As-You)

Mike Huckabee made news last week when he told a student reporter at the College of New Jersey, among other things, that happily coupled gays who contribute to society are just like perpetrators of incest and drug users, and that gays shouldn’t be allowed to adopt because “children aren’t puppies.” Yeeeeeah. This, despite the fact that every credible study on the subject has shown that children of gays do no worse than children of straight couples, and that as Dan Savage has pointed out, children of gays often do better when you factor in the number of unplanned, unwanted children that straight people create.

Huckabee responded to the student reporter by whining about said student reporter (how dare that reporter quote him directly?!), and now Rachel Maddow has caught wind of it.

I’d say she takes this round, handily, but that’s pretty easy when you have an opponent who is as ignorant as Mike Huckabee:

(h/t Good-As-You)

I want to say something clever about this piece from Bruce Wilson of Talk2Action, to add something to it, but I really can’t. Lou Engle, founder of “TheCall,” is scary. He also seems to be the new “semi-official prayer-leader” for the GOP, as he hosted Senators Jim DeMint and Sam Brownback, as well as Rep. Michele “Obama is going to put us all in concentration camps!” Bachmann in praying the other night for the defeat of socialist* healthcare.

As Wilson explains, Lou Engle is not your garden variety anti-gay wingnut:

In previous stories . . . I’ve detailed Lou Engle’s political extremity – video from a November 1, 2008 TheCall event shows Engle onstage at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium calling for acts of Christian martyrdom to stop legal abortion and gay marriage. Engle has forecast that legalized abortion will lead to a second American civil war and appeared, in the documentary “Jesus Camp,” alongside Becky Fischer – who specializes in evangelizing children and has stated she would like Christian children to learn to be as dedicated as Hamas suicide bombers.

Wow. Wilson explains in another piece that Engle’s connections spread far and wide:

Engle . . . could be found last summer blessing and anointing Newt Gingrich and Mike Huckabee at a Virginia Beach megachurch. Engle represents a religious right tendency that had become so dominant that known potentates such as James Dobson and Tony Perkins travel to Engle’s TheCall events – such as the San Diego stadium rally which served as the capstone to the successful anti-gay marriage Proposition Eight push in California.

Engle’s religious movement has also played a significant role in inspiring, and even organizing, legislators who pushed the pending, draconian anti-gay legislation in Uganda that some have described as a “kill the gays” bill.

Let’s see here…

Mike Huckabee wants to be president. Newt Gingrich, for some absurd and inexplicable reason, is still considered one of the leading voices in the GOP, even though he hasn’t held elected office in a decade. He’s buddy-buddy with at least two sitting Senators. And the supposed leaders of the Christian Right, Jim Dobson and Tony Perkins, are traveling to Lou Engle’s events. And he has connections to the impending genocide bill in Uganda.

It’s scary that this guy is no longer considered “fringe” by the GOP. In fact, many on the Right seem to revere him.

In Wilson’s second piece, we also are reminded that Lou Engle played a key role in the passage of Proposition 8 in California, and we’re given this little nugget:

Lou Engle’s son Jesse Engle specializes in casting out gay “demons” and has established a ministry in San Fransisco, which Lou Engle has described as a place “where the homosexuals boast the dominion of darkness.”

What I want readers to notice is the side-by-side here.

On one hand, Engle, those he supports and who support him, are working in an extremist, yet non-violent manner to hurt gay people in the United States. Yet on the other hand, where they are able to take it further, they are quite willing to openly support and advocate violence and genocide for the sake of their radical beliefs. (See Wilson’s excellent piece on C. Peter Wagner, who is tied to pretty much everyone mentioned here, including the genocidal clerics and legislators of Uganda. OH, by the way, he’s also Rick Warren’s mentor.)

I would argue that the difference between what they do in the West and what they do in Uganda (and wherever else) is simply a matter of what each respective society will allow them to get away with. American Christians (especially conservatives) love to hold themselves up as superior, to act like there is some major difference between their beliefs and the beliefs of, say, radical Muslims. But let’s not kid ourselves: Lou Engle is a radical cleric. Mike Huckabee is a radical cleric. Rick Warren is a radical cleric. And they count among their followers people who hold office in the highest echelons of power in the United States and abroad.

It’s easy to get complacent in our relatively civil society here in the United States, to see the situation in Uganda as something far away. But make no mistake: If these people thought they could bring Uganda-style law and order to America, they would do it in a heartbeat. And the most frightening thing of all is that they, like Islamic terrorists, believe they’re acting out God’s will.

If you have time, you should click through all the links, and be sure to watch the videos Wilson posted. As you watch, mentally strip away the expensive sets, the music, all of the Christian accoutrements and Jesus-speak we’re so used to in the United States, and tell me what’s left.

For a taste, I’ll post one of the videos Wilson posted. It’s from the documentary “Jesus Camp,” in which Lou Engle appeared. He’s not in this video, though. This is a woman named Becky Fischer, and in this clip she speaks with a thinly veiled admiration of the dedication of radicalized Muslim terrorists, of the passion they have for their cause, and of how she seeks to indoctrinate Christian children with a similar intensity. And listen for her justification, for it is no different than the justification proffered by every religious extremist/terrorist in human history: “Excuse me, but we have the Truth!”

God help us all.

*Wingnut definition of “socialist”: Created by someone with dark skin, especially if he has a funny name.