Ann Coulter is at it again. OK, I admit her column is witty and funny, but what's her compulsion to link gays to anal sex about? Yes, many homosexuals enjoy anal intercourse, but so do many heterosexuals.
Coulter may think she is cool, but I think she behaves like a silly idiot when she writes that Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "failed to endorse sodomy" in his speech at Columbia University. The question Ahmadinejad answered dealt with the executions of gay people in Iran. Coulter makes it a question about attitudes towards anal sex. (Is she deaf?)
This is not the first time a conservative columnist reduce same-sex love to a matter of anal sex. I don't know why, but my guess is that it's a mixture of disrespect, strategy, and stupidity. But it's politically understandable. Most people tend to think love is a good thing, so it has to be easier for anti-gay conservatives to turn people against same-sex love if it's associated with a sexual practice many find repulsive. Why discuss romance when we can talk about the anus?
I think it's because she's Catholic (although I'm not positive about that because I think she keeps her religion kind of quite, maybe because she speaks to a lot of Evangelicals). Anyway, I've noticed that very strict Catholics think anal sex is almost worse than murder. I learned this by chatting with guys from Ireland, and if the subject came up even jokingly, they did not seem to be amused. But that's just my guess.
USAgal,
I think you're right. Saint Thomas Aquinas—probably the most famous catholic theologian—suggested the same thing 750 years ago.