Colton Unrwood, the First Gay ‘Bachelor,’ Cononts His Controversial Comg Out

Contents:

• IS JOHN BATCHELOR GAY?
• GAY CONSERVATIV: CAN THEY BE CONSERVATIVE?WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A NEW GAY NSERVATIVE GROUP FDS SELF A ROOM FULL OF NSPIRACY-SPEWG WGNUTS? JOHN AVLON WNS A DANGERO CULTURE CLASH.JOHN AVLONUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 7:01PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 18, 2010 4:42PM EDT A PARTICIPANT WAV A FLAG DURG A GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN WASHGTON, D.C. (MOLLY RILEY / RTERS)GAY MARRIAGE IS “A STATE SANCTN OF SFUL BEHAVR” AND HOMOSEXUALY “A SFUL AND SOCIALLY STCTIVE LIFTYLE”—ACRDG TO THE THOR OF THE TEA PARTY MANIFTO AND FOUNR OF WORLDNETDAILY, JOE FARAH.THE OCSN FOR HIS OPG WAS THE FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHT OF WND’S UN-IRONILLY NAMED “ TAKG AMERI BACK” NFERENCE MIAMI—A BATE BETWEEN FARAH AND CHRISTOPHER BARRON, THE -FOUNR AND CHAIRMAN OF GOPROUD, A NEW GAY NSERVATIVE ANIZATN. 
 THE BATTLE L HAD BEEN DRAWN THIS SUMMER WHEN FARAH ANNOUNCED HE WAS DISVG ANN COULTER OM SPEAKG AT HIS NFERENCE BEE OF HER CISN TO EMCEE GOPROUD’S “HOMOCON” FUNDRAISER NEW YORK LATER THIS MONTH. (FULL DISCLOSURE: MY WIFE, MARGARET HOOVER, IS ON THE ADVISORY UNCIL OF GOPROUD.)TECHNILLY, THE TOPIC OF BATE WAS “IS GOPROUD CONSERVATIVE?” BUT THE UNRLYG ISSUE WAS WHETHER GAYS ULD BE NSERVATIVE AT ALL. AT A TIME WHEN THE GAY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS BEE MASTREAM ENOUGH TO BE A SUBJECT OF BATE WH THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT—AND THE TEA PARTY IS TRYG TO RENCILE S LIBERTARIAN PROMIS WH SOCIAL NSERVATIVE STANDARD—BEARERS LIKE CHRISTE O’DONNELL—THIS WAS A BATE WH WIR IMPLITNS THAN THE 250 PEOPLE WHO WNSED . 
 WORLDNEWSDAILY—ALSO KNOWN AS WORLDNUTDAILY TO S TRACTORS—IS A MAJOR ONLE SOURCE OF “NEWS” TO RIGHT-WG TALK-RAD HOSTS AND ASSORTED NSERVATIVE NSPIRACY THEORISTS. FARAH, A VETERAN JOURNALIST WHO FIRST MA HIS NAME PHG ANTI-CLTON EFFORTS—CLUDG SERIAL VTIGATNS TO THE ATH OF VCENT FOSTER (WHICH WERE CED BY O’DONNELL TERVIEWS AT THE )—HAS BEEN A FULL-FLEDGED NSPIRACY ENTREPRENR WHEN TO THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN. THE WHE-HAIRED AND BLACK-MTACHED FARAH HAS FUND “WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFITE?” BILLBOARDS ACROSS THE U.S., AND THE PROLIFIC WND PRS’ NEWT BOOK IS THE MANCHURIAN PRINT—A TYPILLY TONED TLE. TO S FENRS, WND IS A SEEKER OF NSERVATIVE TTH A LIBERAL MASTREAM MEDIA WORLD. IN REARCHG MY BOOK, WGNUTS, WHICH FEATUR A PROFILE OF FARAH, WHENEVER I ASKED PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED FEMA NCENTRATN MPS AND ONG MARTIAL LAW WHERE THEY GOT THEIR “NEWS,” THEY VARIABLY SAID “WND.” 
 • JOHN BATCHELOR: GGRICH IS THE GOP’S FAT ELVIS FOR BARRON AND GOPROUD, THIS WAS A VENTURE TO THE LN’S N. FOR EXAMPLE, A 10-FOOT-HIGH BANNER BY THE NFERENCE ENTRANCE PROMOTED ONE OF WND’S RISG STARS, MOLOTOV MCHELL, A SELF-SCRIBED CHRISTIAN ZEALOT WHO B HARDRE WH HATE WEEKLY VIO MISSIV (YOU KNOW, FOR THE KIDS). AMONG HIS MOST NOTOR OFFERGS WAS A FENSE OF UGANDA’S PROPOSED ATH-PENALTY FOR GAYS ON BIBLIL GROUNDS. IT IS SIMPLY ONE OF THE UGLIT AND MOST SISTER DIATRIB I’VE EVER SEEN ON THE INTER. 
 “I DON’T RE IF YOU ARE NSERVATIVE ON 999 ISSU OUT OF 1,000—IF YOU TAKE THE POSN THAT MEN N MARRY MEN, OR WOMEN N MARRY WOMEN, YOU’RE NOT A NSERVATIVE.” BARRON HAD THE GUTS TO ENGAGE THIS SEEMGLY NO-W BATE. HIS RE PCH TO THE DIENCE WAS SOLIDARY ON THE ISSU. CG GOPROUD’S LIST OF POLICY PRRI, CLUDG TAX CUTS, REPEALG HEALTH-RE REFORM, SOCIAL-SECURY REFORM, AND A NEO-NSERVATIVE FENSE FOR THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, BARRON ARGUED FOR A VISN OF NSERVATISM THAT DIDN’T EXCLU PEOPLE ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN. ON THE HOT-BUTTON ISSU OF GAYS THE ARY AND MARRIAGE EQUALY, BARRON—WHO IS AN AIR FORCE VETERAN AND MARRIED—ARGUED THAT NSISTENT APPLITNS OF EQUALY AND DIVIDUAL EEDOM WOULD HELP ENSURE THE LONG-TERM STABILY OF AMERIN SOCIETY. BARRON OFFERED THE EXAMPLE OF DICK CHENEY AS A NSERVATIVE WHO FAVORS MARRIAGE EQUALY, AND CED RH LIMBGH’S SUPPORT FOR CIVIL UNNS AS A WAY OF MAKG THE SE THAT GOPROUD WAS ED A NSERVATIVE ANIZATN. (FARAH, AN OLD ALLY OF LIMBGH, SNIFFED THAT HE WAS “DISAPPOTED” WH RH’S POSN AND LLED HIM “ILL-RMED” ON THE ISSUE.) 
 BUT FARAH WASN’T BUYG ANY OF THE BIG-TENT PCH, CG THE ULTIMATE PRIMARY SOURCE AS JTIFITN FOR HIS FUNDAMENTALIST POSN. “THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND—EHER YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE OR YOU DON’T,” HE SAID. “I DON’T RE IF YOU ARE NSERVATIVE ON 999 ISSU OUT OF 1,000—IF YOU TAKE THE POSN THAT MEN N MARRY MEN, OR WOMEN N MARRY WOMEN, YOU’RE NOT A NSERVATIVE.”THE THREAT OF GAYS GENERAL, AND GOPROUD PARTICULAR, WAS NOTHG LS THAN EXISTENTIAL FARAH’S VIEW. “WTERN CIVILIZATN, MON SENSE, JUO-CHRISTIAN MORALY AND THE VERY FNS OF THE WORDS 'NSERVATIVE' AND 'MARRIAGE'…ARE UNR ATTACK BY MY OPPONENT,” HE SAID. “THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT HAS BEEN FILTRATED BY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS LIKE CHRISTOPHER BARRON." THE LANGUAGE OF URGENT EXISTENTIAL CRISIS, AMERIN CULTURE CLE AGAST THE SPECTER OF END TIM, IS STANDARD OPERATG PROCRE FOR MAGOGU WHO PROF OM THE PARANOID STYLE AMERIN POLICS. THE IA OF AN SID FILTRATN STRAIGHT OUT OF COLD WAR MUNIST NSPIRACI, BUT NOW IS DIRECTED AGAST FELLOW NSERVATIV WHO ARE SEEN AS HERENTLY SPECT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY. IT IS THE CRY OF TRADNALIST FUNDAMENTALISTS, BIBLIL LERALISTS FIXATED ON LEVIC, VOKG GOD’S LAW AS THEIR IOLOGIL TMP RD. THIS VISN OF AMERIN POLICS DO NOT ACCEPT SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE. ASKG TO ACCEPT THE BIG TENT MIGHT BE A BRIDGE TOO FAR. 
 BUT BARRON N FD FORT THE FACT THAT HE IS ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. GROWG NUMBERS OF AMERINS ARE FORTABLE NOT ONLY WH GAY RIGHTS BUT MARRIAGE EQUALY. THE EVINCE OF NSERVATIVE LEGAL LEGEND TED OLSON FIGHTG TO OVERTURN PROPOSN 8, OR THE RECENT G OUT OF FORMER REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN, SHOWS AN EVOLUTN ON THIS ISSUE EVEN WH THE GOP. AND WHILE BOTH SOCIAL NSERVATIV AND LIBERAL ACTIVISTS MIGHT QUTN THE EXISTENCE OF GAY NSERVATIV, THEY REPRENT A GROWG DIVERSY OF OPN THAT UNRCUTS STEREOTYP. IT’S A SIGN OF PROGRS TOWARD FURTHER DIVIDUAL EEDOM. 
 BY AND LARGE, GRASSROOTS TEA PARTY ACTIVISTS HAVE RISTED THE WEDGE APPEAL OF GAY MARRIAGE, PREFERRG TO FOC ON FISL ISSU (THOUGH THAT DIDN’T STOP SHAMEFUL GAY-BAG THE MIKE CASTLE-O’DONNELL MPAIGN). PERHAPS THAT’S PART OF THE REASON WHY ATTENDANCE AT THE NFERENCE WAS FAR BELOW THE 1,500 PROMOTED, AND WHY POLICIANS LIKE MICHELE BACHMANN AND TOM TANCREDO KEPT THEIR DISTANCE SPE BEG ADVERTISED AS SPEAKERS. THE PETG VALUE VOTERS FOM OFFERED NNECTN TO GRASSROOTS SOCIAL NSERVATIV WHOUT THE SI-SHOT OF CULTURE WAR NSPIRACY.CONSERVATIVE POPULISTS ARE, BY FN, RISTANT TO CHANGE. AND THE RISE OF GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IS A SIGNIFINT SOCIETAL CHANGE. BUT IS THE RIGHT THG TO DO, NSISTENT WH THE EXPANSN OF DIVIDUAL EEDOM AND EQUALY THAT IS THE GOAL OF OUR SEARCH FOR A MORE PERFECT UNN. FARAH HAS HIS FOLLOWERS, BUT GOPROUD IS WNG THE LARGER BATE.JOHN AVLON'S NEW BOOK WGNUTS: HOW THE LUNATIC FRGE IS HIJACKG AMERI IS AVAILABLE NOW BY BEAST BOOKS BOTH ON THE WEB AND PAPERBACK. HE IS ALSO THE THOR OF INPENNT NATN: HOW CENTRISTS CAN CHANGE AMERIN POLICS AND A CNN NTRIBUTOR. PREVLY, HE SERVED AS CHIEF SPEECHWRER FOR NEW YORK CY MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI AND WAS A LUMNIST AND ASSOCIATE EDOR FOR THE NEW YORK SUN. JOHN AVLON
• FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY
• ‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY
• COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT

IS JOHN BATCHELOR GAY?

As much as some voic the field of munitn and ter have speculated if John Batchelor is gay, there is no kd of evince that n rroborate this. Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that John Batchelor is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg. The g out of John Batchelor would greatly benef lns of homosexuals all over the world who are still the closet.

Although John Batchelor has never admted to beg gay, the media always nsirs the likelihood of one day reportg on the other. Regardls of what people may thk, is creasgly mon for people to openly adm to beg gay, even more beg such an sential such as artist John Batchelor. Gay marriage is “a state sanctn of sful behavr” and homosexualy “a sful and socially stctive liftyle”—acrdg to the thor of the Tea Party Manifto and founr of WorldNetDaily, Joe ocsn for his opg was the Friday night fight of WND’s un-ironilly named “ Takg Ameri Back” nference Miami—a bate between Farah and Christopher Barron, the -founr and chairman of GOProud, a new gay nservative anizatn.

GAY CONSERVATIV: CAN THEY BE CONSERVATIVE?WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A NEW GAY NSERVATIVE GROUP FDS SELF A ROOM FULL OF NSPIRACY-SPEWG WGNUTS? JOHN AVLON WNS A DANGERO CULTURE CLASH.JOHN AVLONUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 7:01PM EDT / PUBLISHED SEP. 18, 2010 4:42PM EDT A PARTICIPANT WAV A FLAG DURG A GAY RIGHTS MONSTRATN WASHGTON, D.C. (MOLLY RILEY / RTERS)GAY MARRIAGE IS “A STATE SANCTN OF SFUL BEHAVR” AND HOMOSEXUALY “A SFUL AND SOCIALLY STCTIVE LIFTYLE”—ACRDG TO THE THOR OF THE TEA PARTY MANIFTO AND FOUNR OF WORLDNETDAILY, JOE FARAH.THE OCSN FOR HIS OPG WAS THE FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHT OF WND’S UN-IRONILLY NAMED “ TAKG AMERI BACK” NFERENCE MIAMI—A BATE BETWEEN FARAH AND CHRISTOPHER BARRON, THE -FOUNR AND CHAIRMAN OF GOPROUD, A NEW GAY NSERVATIVE ANIZATN. 
 THE BATTLE L HAD BEEN DRAWN THIS SUMMER WHEN FARAH ANNOUNCED HE WAS DISVG ANN COULTER OM SPEAKG AT HIS NFERENCE BEE OF HER CISN TO EMCEE GOPROUD’S “HOMOCON” FUNDRAISER NEW YORK LATER THIS MONTH. (FULL DISCLOSURE: MY WIFE, MARGARET HOOVER, IS ON THE ADVISORY UNCIL OF GOPROUD.)TECHNILLY, THE TOPIC OF BATE WAS “IS GOPROUD CONSERVATIVE?” BUT THE UNRLYG ISSUE WAS WHETHER GAYS ULD BE NSERVATIVE AT ALL. AT A TIME WHEN THE GAY CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS BEE MASTREAM ENOUGH TO BE A SUBJECT OF BATE WH THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT—AND THE TEA PARTY IS TRYG TO RENCILE S LIBERTARIAN PROMIS WH SOCIAL NSERVATIVE STANDARD—BEARERS LIKE CHRISTE O’DONNELL—THIS WAS A BATE WH WIR IMPLITNS THAN THE 250 PEOPLE WHO WNSED . 
 WORLDNEWSDAILY—ALSO KNOWN AS WORLDNUTDAILY TO S TRACTORS—IS A MAJOR ONLE SOURCE OF “NEWS” TO RIGHT-WG TALK-RAD HOSTS AND ASSORTED NSERVATIVE NSPIRACY THEORISTS. FARAH, A VETERAN JOURNALIST WHO FIRST MA HIS NAME PHG ANTI-CLTON EFFORTS—CLUDG SERIAL VTIGATNS TO THE ATH OF VCENT FOSTER (WHICH WERE CED BY O’DONNELL TERVIEWS AT THE )—HAS BEEN A FULL-FLEDGED NSPIRACY ENTREPRENR WHEN TO THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN. THE WHE-HAIRED AND BLACK-MTACHED FARAH HAS FUND “WHERE’S THE BIRTH CERTIFITE?” BILLBOARDS ACROSS THE U.S., AND THE PROLIFIC WND PRS’ NEWT BOOK IS THE MANCHURIAN PRINT—A TYPILLY TONED TLE. TO S FENRS, WND IS A SEEKER OF NSERVATIVE TTH A LIBERAL MASTREAM MEDIA WORLD. IN REARCHG MY BOOK, WGNUTS, WHICH FEATUR A PROFILE OF FARAH, WHENEVER I ASKED PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED FEMA NCENTRATN MPS AND ONG MARTIAL LAW WHERE THEY GOT THEIR “NEWS,” THEY VARIABLY SAID “WND.” 
 • JOHN BATCHELOR: GGRICH IS THE GOP’S FAT ELVIS FOR BARRON AND GOPROUD, THIS WAS A VENTURE TO THE LN’S N. FOR EXAMPLE, A 10-FOOT-HIGH BANNER BY THE NFERENCE ENTRANCE PROMOTED ONE OF WND’S RISG STARS, MOLOTOV MCHELL, A SELF-SCRIBED CHRISTIAN ZEALOT WHO B HARDRE WH HATE WEEKLY VIO MISSIV (YOU KNOW, FOR THE KIDS). AMONG HIS MOST NOTOR OFFERGS WAS A FENSE OF UGANDA’S PROPOSED ATH-PENALTY FOR GAYS ON BIBLIL GROUNDS. IT IS SIMPLY ONE OF THE UGLIT AND MOST SISTER DIATRIB I’VE EVER SEEN ON THE INTER. 
 “I DON’T RE IF YOU ARE NSERVATIVE ON 999 ISSU OUT OF 1,000—IF YOU TAKE THE POSN THAT MEN N MARRY MEN, OR WOMEN N MARRY WOMEN, YOU’RE NOT A NSERVATIVE.” BARRON HAD THE GUTS TO ENGAGE THIS SEEMGLY NO-W BATE. HIS RE PCH TO THE DIENCE WAS SOLIDARY ON THE ISSU. CG GOPROUD’S LIST OF POLICY PRRI, CLUDG TAX CUTS, REPEALG HEALTH-RE REFORM, SOCIAL-SECURY REFORM, AND A NEO-NSERVATIVE FENSE FOR THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR, BARRON ARGUED FOR A VISN OF NSERVATISM THAT DIDN’T EXCLU PEOPLE ON THE BASIS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN. ON THE HOT-BUTTON ISSU OF GAYS THE ARY AND MARRIAGE EQUALY, BARRON—WHO IS AN AIR FORCE VETERAN AND MARRIED—ARGUED THAT NSISTENT APPLITNS OF EQUALY AND DIVIDUAL EEDOM WOULD HELP ENSURE THE LONG-TERM STABILY OF AMERIN SOCIETY. BARRON OFFERED THE EXAMPLE OF DICK CHENEY AS A NSERVATIVE WHO FAVORS MARRIAGE EQUALY, AND CED RH LIMBGH’S SUPPORT FOR CIVIL UNNS AS A WAY OF MAKG THE SE THAT GOPROUD WAS ED A NSERVATIVE ANIZATN. (FARAH, AN OLD ALLY OF LIMBGH, SNIFFED THAT HE WAS “DISAPPOTED” WH RH’S POSN AND LLED HIM “ILL-RMED” ON THE ISSUE.) 
 BUT FARAH WASN’T BUYG ANY OF THE BIG-TENT PCH, CG THE ULTIMATE PRIMARY SOURCE AS JTIFITN FOR HIS FUNDAMENTALIST POSN. “THERE IS NO MIDDLE GROUND—EHER YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE OR YOU DON’T,” HE SAID. “I DON’T RE IF YOU ARE NSERVATIVE ON 999 ISSU OUT OF 1,000—IF YOU TAKE THE POSN THAT MEN N MARRY MEN, OR WOMEN N MARRY WOMEN, YOU’RE NOT A NSERVATIVE.”THE THREAT OF GAYS GENERAL, AND GOPROUD PARTICULAR, WAS NOTHG LS THAN EXISTENTIAL FARAH’S VIEW. “WTERN CIVILIZATN, MON SENSE, JUO-CHRISTIAN MORALY AND THE VERY FNS OF THE WORDS 'NSERVATIVE' AND 'MARRIAGE'…ARE UNR ATTACK BY MY OPPONENT,” HE SAID. “THE NSERVATIVE MOVEMENT HAS BEEN FILTRATED BY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS LIKE CHRISTOPHER BARRON." THE LANGUAGE OF URGENT EXISTENTIAL CRISIS, AMERIN CULTURE CLE AGAST THE SPECTER OF END TIM, IS STANDARD OPERATG PROCRE FOR MAGOGU WHO PROF OM THE PARANOID STYLE AMERIN POLICS. THE IA OF AN SID FILTRATN STRAIGHT OUT OF COLD WAR MUNIST NSPIRACI, BUT NOW IS DIRECTED AGAST FELLOW NSERVATIV WHO ARE SEEN AS HERENTLY SPECT BEE OF THEIR SEXUALY. IT IS THE CRY OF TRADNALIST FUNDAMENTALISTS, BIBLIL LERALISTS FIXATED ON LEVIC, VOKG GOD’S LAW AS THEIR IOLOGIL TMP RD. THIS VISN OF AMERIN POLICS DO NOT ACCEPT SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE. ASKG TO ACCEPT THE BIG TENT MIGHT BE A BRIDGE TOO FAR. 
 BUT BARRON N FD FORT THE FACT THAT HE IS ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. GROWG NUMBERS OF AMERINS ARE FORTABLE NOT ONLY WH GAY RIGHTS BUT MARRIAGE EQUALY. THE EVINCE OF NSERVATIVE LEGAL LEGEND TED OLSON FIGHTG TO OVERTURN PROPOSN 8, OR THE RECENT G OUT OF FORMER REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN, SHOWS AN EVOLUTN ON THIS ISSUE EVEN WH THE GOP. AND WHILE BOTH SOCIAL NSERVATIV AND LIBERAL ACTIVISTS MIGHT QUTN THE EXISTENCE OF GAY NSERVATIV, THEY REPRENT A GROWG DIVERSY OF OPN THAT UNRCUTS STEREOTYP. IT’S A SIGN OF PROGRS TOWARD FURTHER DIVIDUAL EEDOM. 
 BY AND LARGE, GRASSROOTS TEA PARTY ACTIVISTS HAVE RISTED THE WEDGE APPEAL OF GAY MARRIAGE, PREFERRG TO FOC ON FISL ISSU (THOUGH THAT DIDN’T STOP SHAMEFUL GAY-BAG THE MIKE CASTLE-O’DONNELL MPAIGN). PERHAPS THAT’S PART OF THE REASON WHY ATTENDANCE AT THE NFERENCE WAS FAR BELOW THE 1,500 PROMOTED, AND WHY POLICIANS LIKE MICHELE BACHMANN AND TOM TANCREDO KEPT THEIR DISTANCE SPE BEG ADVERTISED AS SPEAKERS. THE PETG VALUE VOTERS FOM OFFERED NNECTN TO GRASSROOTS SOCIAL NSERVATIV WHOUT THE SI-SHOT OF CULTURE WAR NSPIRACY.CONSERVATIVE POPULISTS ARE, BY FN, RISTANT TO CHANGE. AND THE RISE OF GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IS A SIGNIFINT SOCIETAL CHANGE. BUT IS THE RIGHT THG TO DO, NSISTENT WH THE EXPANSN OF DIVIDUAL EEDOM AND EQUALY THAT IS THE GOAL OF OUR SEARCH FOR A MORE PERFECT UNN. FARAH HAS HIS FOLLOWERS, BUT GOPROUD IS WNG THE LARGER BATE.JOHN AVLON'S NEW BOOK WGNUTS: HOW THE LUNATIC FRGE IS HIJACKG AMERI IS AVAILABLE NOW BY BEAST BOOKS BOTH ON THE WEB AND PAPERBACK. HE IS ALSO THE THOR OF INPENNT NATN: HOW CENTRISTS CAN CHANGE AMERIN POLICS AND A CNN NTRIBUTOR. PREVLY, HE SERVED AS CHIEF SPEECHWRER FOR NEW YORK CY MAYOR RUDY GIULIANI AND WAS A LUMNIST AND ASSOCIATE EDOR FOR THE NEW YORK SUN. JOHN AVLON

The battle l had been drawn this summer when Farah announced he was disvg Ann Coulter om speakg at his nference bee of her cisn to emcee GOProud’s “HomoCon” fundraiser New York later this month.

” but the unrlyg issue was whether gays uld be nservative at all. At a time when the gay civil rights movement has bee mastream enough to be a subject of bate wh the nservative movement—and the Tea Party is tryg to rencile s libertarian promis wh social nservative standard—bearers like Christe O’Donnell—this was a bate wh wir implitns than the 250 people who wnsed . Among his most notor offergs was a fense of Uganda’s proposed ath-penalty for gays on biblil grounds.

FORMER 'BACHELOR' STAR COLTON UNRWOOD OUT AS GAY

On the hot-button issu of gays the ary and marriage equaly, Barron—who is an Air Force veteran and married—argued that nsistent applitns of equaly and dividual eedom would help ensure the long-term stabily of Amerin society.

”The threat of gays general, and GOProud particular, was nothg ls than existential Farah’s view. “The nservative movement has been filtrated by homosexual activists like Christopher Barron. Growg numbers of Amerins are fortable not only wh gay rights but marriage equaly.

And while both social nservativ and liberal activists might qutn the existence of gay nservativ, they reprent a growg diversy of opn that unrcuts stereotyp. By and large, grassroots Tea Party activists have risted the wedge appeal of gay marriage, preferrg to foc on fisl issu (though that didn’t stop shameful gay-bag the Mike Castle-O’Donnell mpaign). And the rise of gay civil rights is a signifint societal change.

COLTON UNRWOOD, ‘BACHELOR’ STAR, COM OUT AS GAY

Negative character tras uld be: Insecury, Inscery, Detachment and John Batchelor gay or straight?

‘BACHELOR’ STAR COLTON UNRWOOD COM OUT AS GAY

We don't know for a fact whether John Batchelor is gay, bisexual or straight. 56% of all voters thk that John Batchelor is gay (homosexual), 44% voted for straight (heterosexual), and 0% like to thk that John Batchelor is actually bisexual. Colton Unrwood is ready to live his former "Bachelor" star me out as gay an exclive terview wh Rob Roberts on "Good Morng Ameri" on Wednday.

"And I'm gay. "When Roberts, who is also openly gay, said she uld "see the joy" and "see the relief" Unrwood, he said he was "emotnal , like such a good, happy, posive way, " and is "the happit and healthit" he's ever been. Unrwood said he went through a "dark and bad" time before feelg like he uld reveal this about himself and his "wake up ll" was feelg like he "would've rather died" than say he's gay.

It took until high school for him to realize he "was more attracted to the boys and the men" than he was the oppose grown up the Catholic church, he remembered he "learned the Bible that gay is a s" Catholic gra school. And durg his time sports, he remembered people g the word "gay" as a term that held "a nnotatn of negativy.

COLTON UNRWOOD, THE FIRST GAY ‘BACHELOR,’ CONONTS HIS CONTROVERSIAL COMG OUT

Unrwood said he has grown "closer to God" this revelatn and said he knows some people will qutn how that's even possible for a gay man to say.

"I ed to wake up the morng and pray for him to take the gay away. I am proud to be gay. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe 29-year-old former football player had wrten about qutng his sexualy a memoir, published Shotwell/Invisn, via Richard Shotwell, via Invisn, via Associated PrsColton Unrwood, a star of “The Bachelor” and a former football player, me out as gay an terview wh Rob Roberts that aired Wednday on “Good Morng Ameri.

And I’m gay. “I would have rather died than say, ‘I’m gay. “‘You know, Colt, we’d still love you and support you if you were gay, ’” he relled his mother tellg father was more nontatnal.