Much talk has been given in attack or in defense of Ann Coulture, and as always I am astounded that Christians are among the first to stand to her defense. Recently I read a blog labeled “Christianity” entitled, “How to Piss Off a Liberal.” Perhaps this is just me, but I think somewhere there is an inconsistancy.
In these days following Coulture’s use of a gay slur, I have heard a consistent defense of her statements from the Christian Community, “It’s not as if she actually killed a gay person” and “it’s only words” being among them. Such Ridiculous statements accomplish nothing but minimizing the severity of Coulture’s statements, and aligning Christ with such ignorant, childish remarks.
The alliance between Ann Coulture and the church is long standing. This past summer I went on a mission trip and was sickened to see more than one copy of Coulture’s book “Godless” floating around the bus, even being read by church leadership. Perhaps they were decieved by Ann’s own use of Romans 1:25-26 to open the book. Clearly Coulture never used scripture to filter her hateful, sarcastic, and arrogant tone that followed.
Couture is a confessing Christian and I do not have the authority to question her salvation. I do, however, have the responsibility of questioning Christians that praise, admire, or support a person that descibes her role in society as “I’m a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don’t you forget.” In one of her townhall.com articles Ann described the gospel in the following terms, “Jesus’ distinctive message is: ’People are sinful and need to be redeemed, and this is your lucky day because I’ m here to redeem you even if you don’t deserve it, and I have to get the crap kicked out of me to do it.’” She continues however to say that liberals have it wrong in saying that the message of Jesus is “be nice to people.” Perhaps if Ann would try actually following the example and teachings of Christ she would understand that “being nice to people” is a large part of the gospel as well.
Ann Coulture once said, “Christianity fuels everything I write…” If this is the case why does she insist on using dialogue that describes Muslims as “smell[ing] bad,” “camal jockeys, and “towelheads,” as opposed to genuinely being concerned for their eternal souls. Why does she insist on jokingly using language offensive to the homosexual community as opposed to being deeply burdened for these people as follow sinners, loving them just a thousands of conservative Christians do?
My call to the church is this: do not support this woman’s words, actions, or literature. Join me in disassiociating her deffensive and hateful methodology from our message. Truth is important, that is why we cannot allow it to be tainted or distorted by individuals such as Ann Coulture. This is my plea to conservative Christians… from a fellow conservative Chrisitian.
