Harding U turns down Ann Coulter. Whoda thunkit?

[gatorboy]

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/09/01/harding

Calling Off Ann Coulter

If one were to draw up a list of American colleges and universities to characterize as Ann Coulter country, Harding University would almost certainly be on it.

The private institution in Searcy, Ark., is affiliated with the Churches of Christ and emphasizes the teaching of Christian values. More to the point, the Young America’s Foundation included the university last year on its list of “top 10 conservative colleges” that “proclaim, through their mission and programs, a dedication to discovering, maintaining and strengthening the conservative values of their students” — a mantle the university acknowledged and welcomed.

So it probably shouldn’t have been surprising when Harding announced in mid-August that Coulter, a conservative author, columnist and television personality known for her provocative and sometimes bombastic opinions, was among those invited to participate in the annual Distinguished Lecture Series at the university’s American Studies Institute, which was founded by a former Harding president — who was strongly anti-Communist — upon his return from missionary work in China in the middle of the last century.
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Yet in the days after Harding’s announcement, a small group of Harding alumni began voicing their discontent on their blogs. Mike Cope, a minister at Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, Tex., complained that Coulter lives in a “black/white ‘I’m-right-and-you’re-an-idiot’ world. If you don’t agree with her then you’re a bleeding heart liberal who doesn’t deserve to live here.” The problem, he said, was not that Coulter is conservative, but that her views are un-Christian.
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Are people on the right finally getting it or are they simply saving face and seperating themselves from people like Coulter that have been tearing this country down?

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Ooooo - burnnnnnn

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In inviting Coulter to the campus, wrote Kendall-Ball, whose father and sisters are also Harding alums, the university had “failed to uphold the Christ-like spirit that Harding seeks to embody.”
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[Carla in Ca]

2. And a newspaper in AZ stopped

printing her column last week. A new trend?

[Kerrytravelers]

3. If she were just conservative, then I wouldn't care two winks about her.

COnservatives have a place with their opinions in a democratic nation. However, she is very vile and insites hate-crimes against people and infests the world with ideas such as "lets kill people in other countries if they won't become Christian."

She really should be locked away in a padded room, not out in public making speeches.

[Nikki Stone 1]

4. Christians--real ones--are really compassionate

Coulter is their absolute antithesis.

[Erika]

5. Coulter is more toxic that the NO waters

and about as pleasant. She had her day.

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[annagull]

7. Your 15 minutes are up, Mr/Ms Coulter

fade into oblivion like you were supposed to after the Clinton hearings.