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Ms. Coulter a wide berth on her views despite some of the bizarre things she'd espouse

Actually if you really think about the whole thing from a philosophical point of view, there is nothing wrong with what she said.

Hey, I am not a Roman Catholic, but former teacher ( a priest ) tells me that he prays for me a lot so that I would someday join the "true" church of Christ ( which implies that I am going to a church that isn't considered part of Christ's church )... am I offended ? Not one bit.

He sincerely believes that and for that, I respect him, even when I vehemently disagree with him. He is after my welfare, albeit in his on (IMHO wrong) way.

As long as there is no coercion and threat, simply the desire to convince and to see me convert, I am tolerant of it. Such beliefs have existed since the founding of this country and tolerance does not mean you have to agree with what a person believes ( as long as you are not threatened with anything ).

So, to those who are offended, I'd say their concept of the notion of "truth" needs some re-thinking.

As you say:

If a Mormon prays for me to become a Mormon, how does that hurt me in any way?

The problem comes when someone clamps a hood on you and threatens to off your melon if you don’t convert.

Ms Coulter expects the audience to be sophisticated. Ok class, let’s substitute the word “Christian” for “Jew”, Islam for the ideal religion, and see if her statements do not come very close to matching the loon from Iran...or any of the multitude of loon imams out there. So, I guess libs will accept idiotic logic from the musnuts, but will not accept a parody from a woman possessing far, far higher IQ than those in the MSM. Sorry, libs, but once again, Coulter is up there where one requires oxygen, whilst you all are down in the ditches (where you quite obviously belong).

Exactly. I admit I am highly skeptical of anything that has even been near Media Matters.

The way I read it, she could be using perfecting in the philosophical sense, i.e lacking nothing, or have the complete fullness. I thought that Christians believed that Christianity was the fullness of truth and Christ perfected the Jewish faith so that it lacked nothing. So for a Christian to wish for a Jews to be “perfected” would be appropriate. If you believe that you have the fullness of truth, wouldn’t you want all others to partake...isn’t that true love of neighbor?

I’m Catholic and it doesn’t bother me one iota that there are Mormons lining up to baptize the Pope after he dies. I actually think it is sweet although completely unnecessary. They believe what they believe and they care enough about others to try to help them, although in a manner that appears totally misguided to me. That’s a fundamental difference between Christians and others, they wish to share their faith out of joy not coercion.