National Review's Deroy Murdoch reports on Pink Pistols, the gay gun rights group that makes some people feel strangely comortable, but other people want to put back in the closet.
"I know of absolutely no conservatives who have attacked us," says Fulk. "I've gotten a lot more grief from gay people for owning guns and supporting the Second Amendment than I ever have from gun owners for being gay." He often joins the group's Northern Virginia chapter for target practice at the headquarters of the National Rifle Association, with which Pink Pistols has testified on gun issues before California's state legislature.
All of this makes gay liberals very nervous.
"I am, and we are, very anti-gun; we don't think guns solve any problems, and may create more problems," Clarence Patton of New York's Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project told Philadelphia Gay News last July.
"I don't believe arming ourselves is a sustainable response to a subculture of hate towards homosexuality," Sue Hyde of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force told Southern Voice last month. "We are not going to settle our scores as a community by having a shoot-out at the OK Corral."
Forget the usual "cats and dogs living together" joke. This case is cats and dogs openly smoochingon the sidewalk, just after mauling their respective owners.
Political chaos -- I like it.
NOTE: Double Extra Deluxe Bonus Cool Points to whoever can first properly attribute the quote I used for the headline.
">Barry Goldwater.
I cheated -- I used google. :)
right on. i'm all for protesting peacefully when you can, but when someone tries to kill you for your sexual orientation? just be sure it's a pink 12 gauge, kids, so you don't hurt the neighbors.
I'd just note that this is really more a story about changes in the conservative community than changes in the gay community.
This was the title to an edtorial Barry Goldwater wrote about gays in the military, at the height of the debate over "don't ask, don't tell". I still think it's the best piece I've read about it.
Its also a commentary on gun owners, who were not automatically conservative until Democrats pushed them out.
Apparently the only reason that Hyde can imagine for arming herself would be to take part in a guerilla war against breeders.
One may question whether so unimaginative a person should be speaking for gays and lesbians. Perhaps she cannot envision acceptance on either an individual or collective level, and assumes a permanent ghettoization of gays.
Or maybe that's just how she justifies her salary.
I've always thought the small rainbow sticker and the NRA sticker looked pretty good together in the back window of my pickup.
