Ann Coulter speech at DePaul divides students (Protesters Verklempt)

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Ann Coulter speech at DePaul divides students

Ann Coulter speaking at DePaul University on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. (Jeremy Mikula photo for RedEye)

BY Jeremy Mikula, DePaul reporter · Thursday, June 2, 2011 9:09 a.m.

Ann Coulter comes to DePaul University and talks about Illinois’ new civil union law … that might sound like the start to a bad joke, but that’s really what happened Wednesday night.

The outspoken conservative addressed some 150 students, faculty and staff at a lecture titled “What Your Professors Will Never Tell You,” part of the Young America’s Foundation Reagan 100 Lecture Series.

Suzanne Kilgannon, director of the Office of Student Life, noted that DePaul “welcomes different viewpoints.”

Coulter started her speech by congratulating the Obama Administration for the killing of Osama bin Laden, but noted that killing the al Qaeda leader would not bring an end to terrorism or the terrorist organization. From there, Coulter used humor to speak about everything from being “molested” by TSA agents at the airport (“It’s nice to know if that if I’m lacking intimacy I can just go to the airport”) to Obama’s golf handicap (“16″ strokes).

Coulter then turned to policy questions, such as U.S. involvement in the uprisings in the Middle East, saying that ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was a supporter of U.S. policy, and questioned why France was more “macho” than the U.S. in the Libyan conflict.

Throughout the speech, Coulter’s jibes towards liberalism were met by sarcastic laughter and coughing from protesters, approximately 35- to 40-percent of whom turned their chairs around instead of facing Coulter during her speech as an act of silent protest.

When asked what her thoughts were on the 2012 presidential election, Coulter said, “[Obama] has a glass jaw. I think he can be beaten, largely because of the economy.”

Coulter also stated that it depends on the candidate running against the president.

Coulter sparked the biggest outrage from protesters when she talked about abortion, gay marriage/civil unions and single motherhood.

Saying that Democratic Party is “obsessed with abortion,” Coulter called abortion a “litmus test for membership in the Democratic Party.” Coulter also questioned how a liberal could ever be a Christian when “they’re in favor of killing a baby peacefully sleeping in the mother’s womb, sucking its brains out [in the eighth month of pregnancy].”

Coulter also criticized Illinois for passing its civil unions law, citing that marriage between a man and a woman is “the linchpin of society.”

“It’s just another attack on marriage,” Coulter said.

The conservative author also fanned flames when she talked about the “problem of single motherhood,” claiming that movies and television promote single motherhood when, according to her, statistics on crime show most offenders come from single parent households.

Reaction to Coulter’s speech was mixed.

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[Rummyfan]

Young college students with heads-full-of-mush. Ugh.....

[JoeFromSidney]

She should have repeated her moslem line: "We need to kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

The irony is that once a Muslim is dead, he/she believes in Christianity, just as the devils in Hell believe in God. Not that it does the devils any good, nor will it do the Muslims any good.