Posted on 08/23/2010 4:54:09 PM PDT by Sola Veritas
.................I believe that's what Jesus meant when He told us to love our enemies. The ultimate demonstration of love for a Christian should be to evangelize the lost.
There is no indication Ann Coulter has ever used one of her paid speaking engagements to do this. In fact, I'm not even sure a paid speaking engagement is an appropriate forum for evangelizing.
Nevertheless, I have heard from a few Christians who compare Coulter's paid speaking gig to Homocon with Jesus sitting down with tax collectors and sinners.
That is not good discernment.
Coulter is a political activist, a pundit, a satirist. She is not Jesus. And she is not an evangelist. No one is likely to get saved at Homocon because Ann Coulter gives a conservative stump speech.
What will happen as a result of her appearance is that a compromise will be made with sin. Sin will be condoned or appeased. A conservative icon will find accommodation with a sin that would undermine the foundations of Western civilization, the Judeo-Christian ethic and the most basic biblical standards of sexual morality.
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On this issue, Mr. Farah has taken the high ground. He isn’t calling Ms. Coulter names...but she?????
Farah is properly expressing a true conservative evangelical Christian viewpoint. Coulter has not.
You are right,but pride runs Ann
Speaking to sinners is not compromising or appeasing. I guess it would depend on what was said. Maybe we should shun all sinners... which would bring all conversation to an end.
Perhaps Mr. Farah should try living his own life rather than living vicariously through Miss Coulter.
All Ann is doing is giving a speech. That's what she does for a living. She is not an elected official, holds no power, and is not a spokesperson for a religious entity.
BTW - Ann has always been outspoken against the militant homosexual agenda.
Farah is not looking at the bigger picture. He is allowing himself to be a distraction.
I can read that in the Mahabarat or the Bhagavid Gita as well ~ it's the essence of the caste system.
One of the reasons I distrust people who resort to that argument.
Much of what you said is true, but here’s something to consider. Just as Ann Coulter has every right to determine which groups she will speak to, doesn’t Joseph Farah have the right to determine which viewpoints are espoused at the conference he is arranging? If you don’t approve of the speakers he is—or isn’t—inviting, then you don’t have to go.
This is just a ridiculous, silly sidebar issue that's nothing but a distraction from the overall goal of stopping the Marxist Left.
I can't wait for Ann's Wednesday column that's going to blow Farah away to Timbuktu. The last thing you want to do is get into a fight with Ann. She took on both Liz Cheney and Kristol, for crying out loud.
Everyone you talk to is a sinner.
You miss the larger point. This is a meeting of an avowed homosexual group. They are clearly not repentant. In fact, homosexuality is the cause that drives them, otherwise they would be just another conservative group. I doubt Ann is going there to stand up for Christian truth. More likely, she will speak about political issues and ignore the larger issue of the group’s homosexual activism. That gives the group her tacit approval.
Christians aren’t supposed to avoid sinners. That is true. Christians also aren’t supposed to proselytize someone every time they meet them. BUT, this isn’t some chance or private interaction between believer and sinners. It’s a speech to a group with the EXPRESS political purpose of normalizing homosexuality, an abomination.
It’s deceptive, in my opinion, to frame this as a simple, private interaction between a believer and sinners.
BTW, a lot depends on how Ann handles the meeting. I’m neither fully opposed or in favor of the speech. If she stands up for Christian truth, then she deserves our acclaim. If, on the other hand, she ignores the so called elephant in the room (aka homosexual activism), then she deserves our opposition. I think we should wait to see what she does before we reach a conclusion one way or the other.
Wake me when the holier than thou crowd grows some real stones and attacks the sin of gluttony. Homosexuality is in truth a safe sin to pick on because honestly, they’re few in number. We got plenty of fatties though.
What I really don’t understand is this need to throw aside good people who are on our side because we are unhappy with one issue. I have supported a lot of politicians and none were ever right on every issue. I have had to compromise. Some are better than others, and if they are right on the most important things, and right on more things than other people, I will support them. Here we are talking about not even a politician but a pundit/commentator, and I will readily concede that though not perfect she is probably right more than she is wrong. She also seems to be right on the big issues. So, what is gained by making her a pariah? And not for a wrong position on an issue even, but for merely talking at an event. I really just don’t get it.
I absolutely agree. Farah nailed it with this one. I have lost all respect for Ann Coulter......she is nothing but a RINO to me now in the same camp as Peggy Noonan.
I absolutely agree. Farah nailed it with this one. I have lost all respect for Ann Coulter......she is nothing but a RINO to me now in the same camp as Peggy Noonan.
I absolutely agree. Farah nailed it with this one. I have lost all respect for Ann Coulter......she is nothing but a RINO to me now in the same camp as Peggy Noonan.
going to blow Farah away to TimbuktuYes, she probably will. She's that talented. Far more talented, and powerful, than Farah.
Which is why she should have kept her cool. She wasn't cool on this issue. Normally she's very cool, isn't she?
We've read her columns and books on every conceivable lie and deception of the Liberals, and always, through it all, she's humorous... and she's cool.
But one conservative dares to criticize her and she goes through the ceiling.
It's not important to me the merits of the issue, Farah or Coulter, who is more right, who is more wrong. I'm judging this one soley on behavior.
Farah is staying cool... and polite.
Coulter has gone way way off the deep end in a way she never, ever has against any single liberal or commie on earth.
Why?
I think she's becoming unhinged.
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