What amazes ME is how easy it is psychologically to hold any political agenda and justify it by claiming "Christian"..(or any other) religious doctrine supports it!

It is a complex weaving of 'belief' with wishful thinking and cultural/ethnic/religious prejudice until one has a fabric of Gerrymandered interlocking personal ideas...all of whom 'seem', with enough rhetotical slipperiness, to support each other.

ONE of the identifying characteristics of those who espouse right/conservative causes is often an unswerving allegiance to some religous doctrine. It is often BECAUSE they are sure that certain moral and/or political principles are supported by the religious cause they espouse that they feel secure, like Coulter, in denigrating other religious and political groups...and even more so, those who do not HAVE a religious group. It is for people like Coulter that the word 'sanctimonious' was coined.!

Is it any wonder we have such a hard time separating church & state when so many in 'church' are determined to affect 'state'...all for the 'obvious' good of all, of course!

(do I sound cynical? Good!)

Of course those on the political left can BE religious...and Christian - but they are usually folks who can keep the presumed issue of their relationship with their God separate from their respect for the chosen ways of those who do NOT trod the same path....and I know a bunch, thank....ummmm...goodness.

Ann Coulter has learned to feed herself...literally...she writes books and gets speaking fees - by making herself a lightning rod of controversy and catering to the narrow-minded prejudices of others who place arrogant, smug disparagement of others over a simpler, quiet practice of their beliefs.

I wish people would quit giving her a free podium to spew her crap...let her BUY time like the TV evangelists.