Another Joseph Farah WingNutDaily e-blast has hit my inbox, and he continues his downward sanity spiral over HOMOCON, GOProud and the fact that there are actually gay conservatives. Apparently this was OK as long as they were silent and in the closet. They are now too uppity for Farah, and are destroying the definition of conservative.
Conservatives get homo conned
What the right is losing as it ‘gains’ homosexual support
The first definition of “conservative” in most dictionaries is something like this: “disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.”
If that definition is accurate, many self-proclaimed “conservatives” have already betrayed their cause of preserving the most important institution to any civilized or self-governing society, while others are treating marriage as if it’s just another issue on which good people can disagree.
That’s the capitulation I see since the recent arrival on the scene by a well-funded group called GOProud, which bills itself as a “gay” conservative organization.
GOProud scored a publicity and political coup recently by securing conservative star Ann Coulter as a keynote speaker at its “Homocon” conference in New York Sept. 25.
“Homocon” is an appropriate name for the event – because the homos are conning conservatives into believing they are a legitimate, sincere and vital part of their movement and people who share many of the same fundamental convictions. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Coulter reacted with fury and ad hominem attacks on my character and religious faith when I dropped her as a keynote speaker at my own conference in Miami a week earlier because of the validation she was providing for this group, which recently was accepted as a co-sponsor of the Conservative Political Action Conference, largest annual gathering of conservatives in Washington.
That decision led Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity to turn down invitations to address CPAC and a handful of conservative organizations to withdraw from co-sponsorship, not because, as some suggest, they are “anti-gay,” but rather because they recognize a “homo con” when they see one.
GOProud claims to be conservative, but it’s not. It’s conning the conservative movement – or what is rapidly becoming the formerly conservative movement.
You know, what’s funny is that I can imagine some Dems feeling equally peeved (albeit for different political reasons) about the increasing volume of out and proud voices in the LGBT movement calling for equality when it’s causing them political agita.
It’s not that far off really, save the GOP has an even longer way to go to feel comfortable slice off the relgious bigots that comprise its base. The irony is that for the first two years of his presidency, Barack Obama has been wasting his time courting the religious anti-gays, chasing phantom votes in more conservative demos rather than doing the right thing by the administration (and party’s) loyal base of LGBT voters. Sigh. No GAyTM for you…
Farah’s entertaining spittle-producing rant continues below the fold.
What does GOProud stand for? Hate-crime laws, open homosexuality in the U.S. military, non-discrimination against homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendereds in any workplace, tax code changes to protect “domestic partnerships,” expansion of health-care benefits to “domestic partners,” the expansion of U.S. military operations to force other countries to legalize sodomy, federal perks for people based on their sexual proclivities and, of course, same-sex marriage.
As GOProud Chairman Christopher Barron explained in a Twitter posting of 4:04 p.m. Aug. 4, just before announcing his big Coulter coup: “We are a gay organization, we only work on gay issues, we have never claimed otherwise. My God people.”
The real goal of GOProud is infiltration and subversion of the conservative movement – and it is highly successful in its early efforts. It is softening up the movement that has provided much of the opposition to the very non-conservative agenda of the homosexual rights movement.
So why are conservatives so eager to validate this effort?
I don’t know, but they are.
Glenn Beck sees no threat to the nation from same-sex marriage. Coulter is being exploited shamelessly by the homo conners, allowing herself to be portrayed as “the Judy Garland of the right,” whatever that means. Grover Norquist, founder of Americans for Tax Reform sits on the group’s board. Conservative bloggers like RedState.org’s Erick Erickson and the Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson are embracing GOProud’s entry into their movement.
What’s going on here?
Is this naiveté? Or something more sinister?
I don’t have the answer, but it is an ominous sign for the formerly conservative movement – which seems to be going soft the preservation of the most important institution of all, marriage.
Even more shocking is how few name-brand conservatives are speaking out on this outrage.
Where are the pro-family organizations? Why are they so quiet? Where are the other celebrity conservatives? Why aren’t they speaking out? Where are the Christian leaders? Why does it take a lifelong journalist, a newsman, a pundit, to point out what’s happening here?
Is it because others are afraid of the wrath that comes with disagreeing with the celebrity conservatives? Is that what this movement has become? If so, the homo con has already succeeded. The conservatives have caved. It has been seduced by a small band of well-heeled homosexuals and intimidated by loud-mouthed allies.
Is that it?
Is it over?
What’s left to conserve after marriage is gone?



Conservatives get homo conned
As GOProud Chairman Christopher Barron explained in a Twitter posting of 4:04 p.m. Aug. 4, just before announcing his big Coulter coup: “We are a gay organization, we only work on gay issues, we have never claimed otherwise. My God people.”
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Oh, good gosh!The Flat Earth Society has been infiltrated by people who think the earth is on the inside of a hollow sphere! It’s the end of civilization as we know it! Oh, the humanity, the humanity!
Every time I see himI think of this;
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmw…
Pray the gay to make its wayIf we are supposed to pray away the gay, is it possible for us to also pray for gayness? I’m hoping Hannity’s son grows up to be the most fabulous drag queen this country has ever seen.
The Farah faucet keeps on drippingCan you imagine a “movement” with this guy leading? The theocracy is being exposed for what it is – a political cul-de-sac. Many who have entered have turned around and rejoined the mainstream. There will always be some, however, who can’t find it in themselves to get back to Main Street. They set up shop on the dead end and yell at the traffic.
It’s ok to be proud of GOProud.
You’ve gotta admit…I was justifiably skeptical at GOProud’s initial organization — something to the right of Log Cabin seemed pointless in the Wingnut infrastructure.
But you have to give them credit where due. Log Cabin has been around for years and years and haven’t created nearly the waves and fissures in the movement that GOProud has done in a fraction of the time.
Good for them.
Now if we can ever get the Democrats on board with actions instead of just lip service.
Hey, Farah!Quit trying to look like a caucasian Cheech Marin (circa Up in Smoke, though without anything resembling a sense of humor) and maybe you can infiltrate something other than an embarrassing group of theocratic treason-mongers.
I don’t understand how there can be a Conservative “movement” unless it’s coming from their backsides. ”Movement” indicates they are going somewhere, and the very definition of conservative (no progression), is an oxymoron.
My first thought is…If he is going to dye his moustache, he really should dye his hair too: it looks like that thing is painted on with shoe polish.
“Cul de sac” is wrong phraseThey are a political sac à culs.
sac – bag
cul – “bottom”, slang “asshole”
cul de sac – bottom of (a) bag
sac à culs – bag of assholes
Cul is used in a lot of interesting colloquialisms such as cul-bénit (lit. “consecrated asshole”) for “religious nut.”
More than thatAll I can think is that if he really wants to make America straight, he could probably start with that ‘stache.
The more I see that mug, the more I think ‘No wonder he thinks gays are everywhere: that thing must set off gaydar from here to Brisbane.’
What makes you think Hannity isn’t that already?Seriously. The guy has always set off my gaydar at its loudest setting.
If only that really was GOProud’s aim….then I might have some use for them.
Because…Keeping the scope and power of government at its smallest humanly possible, and leaving alone people who are not us to live their lives as they see fit…
Those things are NOT Conservative values?
These yahoos are practicing a fundamentally different form of Conservatism from myself, and any true Conservative.
Are these the Neo-Conservatives I hear so much about? Is this just the last gasp of the “Religious Right” trying to cloak itself in wholesome Conservativeness to pretend to remain relevant?
Maybe a new label, Religio-Cons. They’re not about public policy. They’re just about imposing their religion on others.
Fascist Dominionist Xtians more like.
It’s mostly fake, though.Small government? Nobody actually pushes for that. U.S. conservatives are all about shoveling as much money as possible into the military, churches, and corporate accounts. Even the “libertarians” only get away with it by insisting that enforcing private property, contracts, borders, etc. don’t count as “government,” and suggesting that a pure kleptocracy wouldn’t involve a massive de facto police state to keep the starving workers with pitchforks away. The only functions of government that conservatives consistently oppose are the ones that benefit people ill-served by the capitalist corporate “free” market.
Hmmm…isn’t Farah an Islamic name?And isn’t he diverting us from the real danger threatening America today, Islamic Basketball Courts 4 blocks from Ground Zero?
OHMIGOD!
He’s trying to distract us as he and his compatriots build Islamic Rec Centers near our most sacred(and pricey) ground! He must be in league with the vile, shady ffinancier of the Ground Zero Hoops Centre….
….the co-owner of NewsCorp.
I dunnoThe fact that so many conservative pundits had a ‘scandal’ about it right on cue does in fact make me doubt ‘GOP Proud’ is of any more use than rebranding the GOP.
I mean, who gives a flying fig whether or not Ann Coulter will deign to talk at rich gay people, she’s still Ann F’n Coulter. It’s not like she hasn’t said how she feels, why is she even invited to begin with?
Not Islamic….Disco.
‘Farrah.’ As in ‘Farrah Fawcett.’ (Clearly a drag name.)
It’s the moustache. He’s a crypto-disco-closeted gay Charlie’s Angels-chasing boogie radical!
Don’t say I didn’t warn you! It’s worse than you think! It’ll be the Bee Gees next!
When is HE coming out?
That’s my new mantra. You’ll be hearing it a lot.
Being of a more classicist, I prefer to say…“Methinks the laddie doth protest too much!”
The freddy mercury look isn’t helping FarahWhere are all the pro-family organizations? Probably realizing that if they want to be elected they need to have some sort of logical stance on an issue and show some rudimentary signs of intelligence you dolt. Let’s make one thing clear on how you feel that people are not fighting the good fight on your cause: YOU ARE A DINOSAUR. Of course, our definitions of dinosaurs are different so perhaps that is not much of an insult to you. I believe they walked the earth hundreds of millions of years ago and you think noah collected dino eggs and men walked with them 6000 years ago. The day of the moron is grinding to a halt and ignorance can only argue when it’s in the majority. Sorry, there are too many people around with mammalian brains that can outthink your twisted logic. People are often afraid of that which they do not understand, and in that respect I can sympathize with why conservatives seem to cower in corners and wet themselves after watching Fox news. But it doesn’t mean your deluded ideals of threats actually exist. I’ll make you a deal Farah, if you can make one logical argument based on fact to counter the gay rights movement I will sit quietly for as long as you wish to speak and listen with an open mind. But don’t quote to me a book that was originally written as “Amen-em-opet” 1000 years prior. You must cling to your ideals because you are two dimensional and without substance unless you hold tightly to these delusions. They are stories, and you didn’t get the moral of the story: don’t be a dick.