Totally Missed the Point
Ann Coulter has posted two columns in a row about "liberal gay bashing." All she has managed to do is demonstrate how completely clueless she and other conservatives are and how completely they miss the point.
Ann seems to think that talking openly about someone's sexuality is demeaning to the person in question. Her first example is Jeff Gannon.
Now the media is hot on the trail of a gay escort service that Gannon may have run some years ago. Are we supposed to like gay people now, or hate them? Is there a Web site where I can go to and find out how the Democrats want me to feel about gay people on a moment-to-moment basis?
This is what is called projection in the world of psychoanalysis. Because Ann would hate someone who runs a gay escort service, she assumes that liberals hate Jeff. No one on the left hates Jeff. Liberals don't care all that much that Jeff has ties to gay prostitution. While some or even many may find it amusing Jeff has been literally caught with his pants down, the story is so not about Jeff. It is about a republican White House that doesn't seem to mind having a gay prostitute "breaking" their biggest stories.
Gannon didn't write about gays. No "hypocrisy" is being exposed. Liberals' hateful, frothing-at-the-mouth campaign against Gannon consists solely of their claim that he is gay.
Claim? When you have naked pictures of yourself on-line advertising your sexual services I don't think there's much left to dispute. At that point is has also ceased to be a private matter. If you are going to advertise your services on the Internet, the information can safely be considered public. Besides, no one ever said Gannon was being a hypocrite. The hypocrisy comes from the White House which continually pontificates on the necessity of protecting society from homosexuals, but doesn't seem to mind using them as their stooges.
Ann's second example is Maya Keyes.
Outing relatives of conservatives is nothing but ruthless intimidation: Stop opposing our agenda -- or your kids will get it. This is a behavioral trope of all totalitarians: Force children to testify against their parents to gain control by fear.
You're projecting again, Ann. Is there something you are hiding that has shame bound so tightly to coming out? Don't you get that it is people like you who think homosexuality is a shameful, "private" matter that make people think they need to stay in the closet? It is people like you that make homosexuals fear for their jobs and social status if they were to come out.
Don't get me wrong. I do not believe in outing people who are not ready. I believe that is a personal decision that no one has the right to trump. However, Maya Keyes and Jeff Gannon were not "outed" by the media. We've already discussed Jeff making public his private life. Maya gave an interview to The Advocate, the largest gay news magazine in the country. That's not being outed, that's coming out. Maya is speaking out herself and for that has been cut off from her family. Yes, that's news worthy. Yes, it's worth pointing out that conservatives are clueless and hypocritical, compassionate only so long as homosexuals keep quiet about their "private issues."