I’ve written about it already but (a) this is the first time she’s spoken about it on camera as far as I know, and (b) given the, shall we say, lively discussion we had in the Headlines thread yesterday for this excellent post by Ace — read it all, seriously — it seems people still want to talk about this. I’ll give you a taste of one of his points to start you off:
So Farah is essentially elevating to the position of Worst Sin the one sin he has absolutely zero chance of committing, zero chance of even being tempted by.
I find this breathtakingly convenient. According to Farah’s priorities, hell, I’m a pretty moral guy — never had gay sex, never wanted to have gay sex, never even thought about gay sex. So I’m pretty pure, right?
Of course I’m not. I’m just not guilty of that sin, but I’m not free of that sin due to devotion to God or exercise of willpower or the strengthening power of faith: I’m free of that sin for the same reason I’m free of the sin (were it a sin) of eating tarantulas. Because I don’t want to.
It strikes me as very convenient, self-serving position to take that the most important sin out there, the most destructive sin, the one, as Farah says, actually destroys whole societies, is the sin that those who are most concerned with it aren’t ever tempted to commit in their entire lives.
The irony of this whole controversy, of course, is that Coulter’s getting lots of support for speaking at HomoCon not only from younger conservatives but, in her own words, from Christian friends too. Which is to say, for most people, it ain’t all that controversial. Exit question: She calls herself the right-wing Judy Garland but is she actually the conservative Elton John?
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