First, Glenn Beck goes off the conservative reservation by declaring that same-sex marriage is no threat to America by saying: “I believe that Thomas Jefferson said, ‘If it neither breaks my leg or picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?’”
Then, the notoriously homophobic Ann Coulter gets booked to headline next month’s “Homocon,” an event put on by GOProud, a group of gay Republicans. Coulter’s willingness to talk to gay Republicans got WorldNetDaily’s editor Joseph Farah in such a spin he canned Ann from the upcoming Taking Back America event in Miami.
Now, Coulter is firing back, calling Farah and his cohorts “fake Christians who are trying to get publicity,” during an appearance on the Fox News show The Red Eye.
Thanks to her, they’re certainly getting a lot of publicity.
Farah responded in a column in WND:
Honestly, I believe that both Coulter and Beck, while I disagree with them on 99.9 percent of what they say, can see the writing on the wall: the next generation doesn’t see any problem with gay and lesbian relationships. These are people who are paid well to know their audience, and if they see potential in a younger demographic, then they’re going to play to that demographic.
Coulter and Beck may seem to be “going off the reservation,” but in reality, they are pioneers for an emerging group of conservatives who have their eyes set on other prizes. They realize the tide is shifting, if ever so slowly, on the issue of gay and lesbian rights, and they are positioning themselves to take advantage of the new paradigm.
Whether or not Farah (and those who continue to cleave to an anti-gay theology) are indeed “fake Christians” is a judgment I’ll leave to God, but they do run the risk of becoming totally irrelevant if a new crop of young conservative consumers see them as bigoted and hopelessly out of touch with the mainstream.
Meanwhile, GOProud has announced it will again be a sponsor for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February 2011.
Let the conservative infighting rage on…
People who continue to believe the Bible(and continue to cleave to an anti-gay theology), which is unquestionably part of Biblical theology, might become unpopular, but they(we) will never become irrelevant. Anyone who believes, and lives by, what God has said will always be a witness against the wickeness of this world, including the evil of homosexuality, and because of that, will always be relevant.
Candace Chellew-Hodge serves as associate pastor at Garden of Grace United Church of Christ in Columbia, S.C. Her new book is Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians.
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