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US pundit says civil rights are for ‘blacks, not gays’
Controversial columnist Ann Coulter has said liberals have co-opted the black civil rights movement
Controversial Republican pundit Ann Coulter has discussed a controversial comment made in her new book.
In an interview with This Week host George Stephanopoulos, she said: ‘Various groups [including] gay rights groups, those defending immigrants, and feminists have commandeered the black civil rights experience.’
Coulter said she thinks ‘civil rights are for blacks’ because the United States has a ‘legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws.’
She added: ‘We don’t owe the homeless. We don’t owe the feminists. We don’t owe women who are desirous of having abortions, or gays who want to get married to one another.
‘That’s what “civil rights” has become for much of the left.’
The author said ‘much of the left…dropped the blacks after five minutes’ to argue for civil rights for other groups of people.
Stephanopoulos asked Coulter ‘Immigrant rights are not civil rights?’, to which Coulter confirmed she only thinks ‘civil rights are for blacks’.
She said: ‘What have we done to the immigrants? We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery.
‘Immigrants haven’t even been in this country.’
Famed for her anti-liberal remarks, Coulter’s eight books have sold over three million copies.
Coulter, who describes herself as ‘the Judy Garland of the right wing’, has a large gay Republican following.
Appearing on LGBT-themed reality show The A List, she said: ‘The gays have got to be pro-life. As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are gonna start aborting?’
Previously, the columnist has written that anti-gay politician’s comparison of homosexuality to bestiality is an ‘indisputably true point’, and told an interviewer that sexually active gay men should ‘feel guilty about it’.
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Stephanopoulos asked Coulter ‘Immigrant rights are not civil rights?’, to which Coulter confirmed she only thinks ‘civil rights are for blacks.
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Please do not judge Americans by this idiot. She looks like a botch sex hange operation and has an IQ that would place her in the moron class among birds.
Please do not judge Americans by this idiot. She looks like a botch sex hange operation and has an IQ that would place her in the moron class among birds.
This is what Ann Coulter just does not understand:
"Gay Rights" are "Civil Rights."
"Civil Rights" are "Human Rights."
"Human Rights" apply to ALL humans equally.
It is clear from her comments, she does not believe Gays* (and Blacks**) are fully human nor that they "are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." It is this belief in the sub-humanity of Gays that allows her to equate us with super-animal dogs in her bestiality argument: Gay = Dog. The next logical step in her chain of reasoning is: "If we round up, impound, and euthanize Dogs: why not do the same with Gays?" a proposition which is currently being espoused by some reactionary "Christian" ministers, such as Pastor Charles Worley of Maiden, N.C.'s Providence Road Baptist Church.
Ann Coulter is typical of a class of Americans, who love "America," and "The Flag," but hate the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and ALL of the Laws that make our System work for every human EQUALLY.
Equal Marriage does not redefine marriage, but it does redefine Gays as equal human beings - and that is what the authoritarian right hates most of all.
* Inclusive of all members of the LGBTQ Community
** Inclusive of all other minority groups. When Ms. Coulter substitutes the adjective in place of the noun, as when she refers to "blacks" she is not thinking "black people" as that would humanize them.
Ann Coulter is one of the most ignorant people in America. Even the greatest Civil Rights leaders of all time have said that they support equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans. This includes Coretta Scott King and Julian Bond.
"She said: ‘What have we done to the immigrants? We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery."
Ms. Coulder seems to think that civil rights are all about feeling guilty, repenting and remedying past injustice.
That's not what civil rights are about. They are about recognition of the equal dignity and worth of all people.
Everybody has civil rights, not just victims, not just the descendants of slaves.