Christians to Ann Coulter: You're the One Who is Godless

Christians on both the left and right denounce right-wing harpy Ann Coulter and her hate speech that masquerades as "political commentary."

Last week, Coulter grabbed more headlines after revising her previous "faggot" remarks directed at Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. "Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. I'm gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot." A few days later, Elizabeth Edwards challenged the author of Godless to a public debate. Coulter declined.

Christian blogger David Kuo—who once directed the Bush Administration's faith-based initiatives—says "conservative Christian activists need to publicly distance themselves from her for the sake of the Gospel. What most Christians do is to love God and their family and their neighbors. But so long as the conservative Christian activists are in bed (metaphorically speaking) with Ms. Coulter it sends a very different message."

Darrell Bock—editor-at-large of Christianity Today—was just as blunt: "The godless author needs to clean up her act. Making fun of the tragic death of a child, teasing about sexual orientation, or joking about wanting to see a terrorist at work against someone is wrong, whether it comes from the left or the right."

Dr. Bock is a professor of theology and one of the world's leading New Testament scholars. If you wanted to ask anyone "WWJD?", this would be the man.

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Comments

[Luther]

She is one vile bitter "woman" although I really don't think she is really a woman from birth, but that's another topic.

She reminds me of their sainted Reagan, a "Christian" who never went to church. Nancy claimed it would have been to much of a hassle for all involved with the Secret Service, etc. And, yet these right wing nuts who claim to be so God fearing goose step with the hate that they preach.

Its about time someone stood up to this hateful, mean, need a man "woman" and the hateful remarks she spews for a couple of coins and television time. Mrs. Edwards called her out, and the bully and coward that she is, she backed down, until next month.

She is everything that is wrong with politics and the lack of an informed public in this country who buy her books and make them #1 on the NYT best seller list.

[Kevin]

Ann Coulter is just seeking attention any way she can get it. ANd the media is foolish enough to fall for it.

[Andy in Seattle]

First of all, implying Ms. Coulter is not a biological female is an insult to transgendered people everywhere. Careful...

Secondly, she shall die by the same sword she wields. The media's crush on her will eventually end (Anita Bryant anyone?), and she'll continue to make hysterical pronouncements of escalating lunacy if only to get coverage, until she destroys herself.

[C. Baptiste-Williams]

she shouldn't get the coverage she gets... its about attention

[Luther]

That's just it C.Baptiste-Williams, she shouldn't be getting all this media attention, and, yet, the cable news outlets love her. She draws in viewers, and thats all they want. They don't care that the hate she spews hurts, and until the right wing plank of the GOP stops watching her, something I doubt they will do, she will be on the air and selling those books by the millions.

[Terrance]

She gets attention because she gets ratings. She sells books. She has a fan base that seems not to object to anything she says. In fact, incidents like these cause her sales to go up, and her popularity among her fans doesn't suffer in the least.

And her fan base is hard core conservative. So, maybe a discussion about just what about Coulter appeals to so many conservatives, and what that says about conservatives, in order.

After all, do we have a Coulter-equivalent on the left? And why not?

[Alexis]

I'm not aware of any progressive Christians who supported Coulter. If the Christian Right is also waking up to her vitriol, then even better. People who use Christ as a defense for homophobia and hatred are reading a very different Bible....I wish non-Christians would get that THOSE People do not represent Christianity. I say treat Coulter like Queen Mab: stop saying her name and she'll disappear...

[Alexis]

I'm not aware of any progressive Christians who supported Coulter. If the Christian Right is also waking up to her vitriol, then even better. People who use Christ as a defense for homophobia and hatred are reading a very different Bible....I wish non-Christians would get that THOSE People do not represent Christianity. I say treat Coulter like Queen Mab: stop saying her name and she'll disappear...

[Alexis]

I'm not aware of any progressive Christians who supported Coulter. If the Christian Right is also waking up to her vitriol, then even better. People who use Christ as a defense for homophobia and hatred are reading a very different Bible....I wish non-Christians would get that THOSE People do not represent Christianity. I say treat Coulter like Queen Mab: stop saying her name and she'll disappear...

[Alexis]

I'm not aware of any progressive Christians who supported Coulter. If the Christian Right is also waking up to her vitriol, then even better. People who use Christ as a defense for homophobia and hatred are reading a very different Bible....I wish non-Christians would get that THOSE People do not represent Christianity. I say treat Coulter like Queen Mab: stop saying her name and she'll disappear...