AU Urges Florida TV Ministry To Disavow 'Loathsome' Remarks By Ann
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February 22, 2007
Americans United Urges Florida TV Ministry To Disavow 'Loathsome'
Remarks By Ann Coulter
Columnist Made Anti-Gay Slur, Condoned Murder Of Abortion Doctors At
Christian Group's Ft. Lauderdale Event
Americans United for Separation of Church and State today called on
the Center for Reclaiming America to publicly disavow extreme
statements made by Ann Coulter during a recent Center conference in
Fort Lauderdale.
The Center, the political arm of TV preacher D. James Kennedy's Coral
Ridge Ministries, hosted Coulter during a "Reclaiming America for
Christ Conference" March 2-3.
During her March 3 remarks at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Coulter
issued an anti-gay slur and excused the murder of doctors who perform
abortions.
The Rev. Barry W. Lynn, Americans United executive director, sharply
criticized Coulter's incendiary rhetoric and called on Gary Cass, head
of the Center for Reclaiming America, to publicly repudiate it.
"Ann Coulter's statements can only be described as loathsome," said
Lynn. "It is astounding to me that this type of vitriol was unleashed
before a religious organization that claims to be 'reclaiming' America
for Christ. This rhetoric must be repudiated immediately."
In her remarks, Coulter made light of the murder of abortion doctors
and clinic personnel.
Noting that seven doctors and clinic personnel had been killed,
Coulter said, "Those few abortionists were shot, or, depending on your
point of view, had a procedure with a rifle performed on them. I'm not
justifying it, but I do understand how it happened....The number of
deaths attributed to Roe v. Wade - about 40 million aborted
babies and seven abortion clinic workers; 40 million to seven is also
a pretty good measure of how the political debate is going."
The anti-gay slur against presidential contender John Edwards was a
repeat of a remark that she had earlier made during an appearance at
the Conservative Political Action Committee conference in Washington,
D.C.
Answering an audience question during the Fort Lauderdale event,
Coulter said, "I spoke at C-PAC yesterday, and I [took questions]
about Obama and Hillary and Gore and global warming, and I said I was
going to also have a few remarks about the other Democratic
presidential candidate, John Edwards, but apparently you have to go to
rehab if you use the word '*****.'"
In a letter to Cass today, AU's Lynn wrote, "The fact that these
comments were uttered during an event sponsored by a Christian
organization and from a church sanctuary is particularly outrageous. I
hope that Coulter's remarks do not represent the sentiment of your
organization and assume you will have no reluctance in making that
clear."
Americans United is a religious liberty watchdog group based in
Washington, D.C. Founded in 1947, the organization educates Americans
about the importance of church-state separation in safeguarding
religious freedom.
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The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
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American Theocrats - Past and Present
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The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
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[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
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respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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