The Log Cabin Republicans, the gay conservative Republican group which successfully sued the federal government over Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, just issued a statement calling Ann Coulter out for her comments supporting ex-gay therapy and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and saying her positions are “clownish,” “stale,” and a “throwback.”
Coulter Wednesday night told cable news host Joy Behar, “I not only want ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ for the military, I want ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ for all of society. Just give me a week where we’re not talking about gays,” and, speaking about New York, said, “OK, the media capital of the world has gay marriage, can we move on now?†Coulter also said, “I not only don’t want open gays in the military, I don’t want open girls in the military.”
Coulter last year headlined a fundraiser for GOProud, a gay Tea Party Republican group.
“Ann Coulter is not a serious part of the conservative movement – her positions are a throwback and do more harm than anything else,” said R. Clarke Cooper, Executive Director of Log Cabin Republicans. “Her remarks endorsing the widely outdated and profoundly harmful idea of ‘reparative therapy,’ alleging that one can ‘pray the gay away,’ are not only demeaning to gays and lesbians, but are offensive to all people of faith. God in his infinite wisdom created us the way we are and pundits and politicians cannot change that. While her position on this matter is off base, it is exacerbated by her claim that the armed forces should bring back ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ a failed policy which impedes military readiness. Servicemembers who put their lives on the line deserve respect, not such clownish behavior. Ann Coulter may be tired of gay and lesbian Americans speaking out, but Americans, gay and straight, are tired of her overwrought and offensive behavior. Frankly, Coulter’s act has gotten stale. It’s time to change the channel.”