Michael Lucas vs. Ann Coulter

COMMENTARY: It's time for Ann Coulter to come out of the closet. Her right-wing followers would never know it, but she thinks gay people are just great.

Or so she says...

I was among those in attendance when she spoke over the weekend at a fund-raiser for GOProud, a fledgling organization of gay conservatives. She looked spectacular, gay assistant in tow, mingling with the crowd — many of them her friends — and delivering her signature witty and hilarious political jokes about liberals.

All was going smoothly until the Q&A after her speech, when I asked her whether she would start defending gay people when she goes on conservative talk shows like Glenn Beck's and speaks at other straight conservative events. She dodged the question, saying she doesn't tell many gay jokes to Christian conservatives. "Out of sweetness they don't laugh at the gay jokes," she said, "because they feel like they're being mean, so I've been saving them up for this audience."

I pointed out to her that this is simply not true. I've seen plenty of YouTube clips where conservatives laugh their asses off at her jokes mocking gay people.

As you'll see in the exchange we had, I never got the answers I was looking for, and she decided to stop the Q&A after my question.

Disappointed about not getting a response on Sunday, I asked GOProud chairman Chris Barron to forward her an e-mail. Read it on the following page.