Joe Farah, assaulted now by both left and right,  spoke on several radio shows where the host was gay.  His critics assaulted him for this after Farah canceled Ann Coulter as a conference speaker for accepting a paid speaking engagement headlining a gay group.

Asked for how he responds to the author at the dailycaller, Farah had this to say to his critic.

“Ann Coulter was never ‘blasted’ by WND or me for talking to ‘gay conservatives’ as your article suggests. That is a total misrepresentation of what I have said and written on this matter. But yet that is the straw man you construct to make a story out of the fact that I have engaged openly homosexual radio hosts who invited me as a guest on their programs. Instead, WND dis-invited Ann Coulter to headline WND’s ‘Taking America Back National Conference’ in Miami because her paid appearance before a homosexual activist lobbying group served to validate their agenda. Talking to homosexuals and engaging them on the issues of the day is one thing. Accepting paid speaking assignments from homosexual activist lobbying groups promoting same-sex marriage, open homosexuality in the U.S. military ranks and hate crimes legislation is quite different. If you can’t discern a distinction between those two things, I will illustrate the difference for you.

“I might have a public discourse with a Ku Klux Klansman for the purpose of illustrating the bankruptcy of his ideology. But I would not accept a paid speaking engagement before a Ku Klux Klan organization because it would provide a certain degree of validation and legitimacy of the group, no matter what I might say to the members. In addition, the acceptance of money from groups like this raises additional questions.

“In no way did I ever criticize any conservative for, as you say, ‘embracing members of the gay community who share beliefs on issues like taxes, health care and the role of government.’ These are your carefully chosen words that completely misconstrue and distort my carefully chosen words. Neither do I believe GOProud has a conservative agenda at all on taxes, health care and the role of government. GOProud is, as its chairman has stated, 100 percent about the promotion of a radical, anti-American, anti-freedom homosexual agenda.”

I wouldn’t have done the radio  show, but I  see Farah’s point.  There is a difference between appearing on a talk show with a gay host, and accepting hefty fees to headline a promotional for a gay event.