Bill Clinton is not gay. If he were, he would not have signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents the Federal Government from recognizing same-sex marriage. This is a ridiculous law that deprives citizens of equal protection of the law and violates the "Full Faith and Credit" clause of the U.S. Constitution. At the moment the chaos this is causing to the republic is only just beginning. The Supreme Court of Vermont is in a battle with the Supreme Court of Virginia. A Lesbian couple, wedded under the Vermont Civil Union law, got divorced. One woman got custody of the child and the other got visitation rights. The woman with the baby moved to Virginia and declared herself straight. Now she refuses the right of her former partner to visit their child. For all other aspects of law in the U.S.A. our founding fathers wrote the “Full Faith and Credit Clause” into the Constitution to ensure that laws passed in one state would be respected by the others. For example, a Vermont court order for child visitation should be honored in Virginia, but it is not due to both the federal and state Defense of Marriage Acts (DOMA). The DOMA in Virginia is so bad that gays (myself included) are leaving the state in droves. In Virginia no contracts that even look like an attempt to approximate a same-sex marriage will be honored. Therefore, a same-sex couple cannot buy a house together. Any other two people can buy anything they want together, but a same-sex couple can't. Same-sex wills will not be honored. I can will all my earthly possessions to my cat in Virginia if I like, but I can't will a dime to the man I love and share my life with. So much for equal protection of the law. Foreign Diplomats who come on assignment with their legally married same-sex spouses can't even get diplomatic license plates for their same-sex spouses, much less visas or other diplomatic privileges given to all other diplomatic families. No Bill Clinton cannot be gay and have signed into law such bill which so oppresses us all and threatens the fabric of the Republic.

Reader Leslie Howard argues below that a letter suggesting that Coulter is gay shouldn't have received an "Editors' Choice" star. "The accusation that Coulter is a lesbian is no more credible than her accusation concerning Bill Clinton," Howard writes. "Doesn't Salon see how ironic it is for such a letter to get a star, not to mention, sad?"

I think Howard is right. "Editors' Choice" designations shouldn't be construed as meaning that anyone at Salon agrees with the sentiments expressed in a letter; indeed, when I make the picks, I often highlight views contrary to my own in the interest of balancing out the rather large megaphone I've been given. That said, I do think we should be aiming for a high level of discourse here, even when the subject of it is someone who doesn't.

I've reversed the "Editors' Choice" designation that was given to the letter in question.

That's it -- I've pondered this possibility for some time, but now I am CONVINCED that "Ann Coulter" has to be the greatest Performance Artist of our time. She's created this Andy Kauffman-esqe Persona who has managed to gain access to the highest level of punditry by making declarations of the most inflamatory and blatantly unsubstantiated nature. Really, people -- how can this NOT be some kind of stunt? She's realized that once one has achieved the golden state of celebrity, you can say or do practically anything without consequence. Now that pundits who are labeled "Liberal" are frequently simply providing the blandest voice of reason, it has become necessary to have someone who can spout pithy right-wing bat-shit craziness to have a necessarily "fair and balanced" response. The mainstream news media has absolutely no standards of literal truth (as it might be ascertained by scientific methods, historical data, or common logic) when it comes to this area of "opinion." The logic is that all opinions are equally valid, so someone like Ann Coulter has managed to make herself a position of virtual credibility by telling, well, LIES. (See the "Ann Coulter: Nutcase" chapter of Al Franken's book for details). It's evilly brilliant. Now she's so deeply entrenched, she has to keep upping the ante just to make it interesting for herself. This "Clinton is gay" thing -- come on! It's HILARIOUS! She's clearly just seeing how far she can go with this. She's like Marcel Duchamp, giving us a urinal and telling us it's "art", and the joke is on us if we believe it.

Oh, right, and George Bush is a "latent" Rhodes Scholar!

Can the flying monkeys be far behind?....throw water on her, posthaste!

First, there was the letter from "Straightman", written in response to the APA-interrogation story, that got a star for promoting the lie that the APA removed homosexuality from its list of disorders solely because the APA is politically biased toward homosexuals and that homosexuality is a disorder. Both charges are patently false and easily exposed, yet Salon chose to give this person's prejudicial rubbish a star.

Now, in this article, we have a starred letter the suggests Coulter must be a homosexual, with the typical underlying "all bad people are gay" message. The accusation that Coulter is a lesbian is no more credible than her accusation concerning Bill Clinton. Doesn't Salon see how ironic it is for such a letter to get a star, not to mention, sad?

Ann Coulter is a parody of the right. Her behavior is the embodiment of the idea that people will say or believe anything, so long as it's convenient for them. The lunacy in her communications is a representation of the psychology of cognitive dissonance.

For those of you, like "flip", who feel it's fun to bash gay people by promoting the idea that a woman who offends you must be a homosexual because "homosexuals are crazy", I hope you will realize, at some point, that homosexuality is not a disorder; prejudice against gay people is not "what's wrong with homosexuality", but instead what's wrong with society. It may seem fun to you to promote the idea that "bad people are gay", but it's not based in reality.