Ann Coulter's remarks at CPAC inappropriate

Dallas Blog | Dr Al Mohler:

“Ann Coulter is a woman of many gifts and many right ideas. She can be an eloquent spokeswoman for conservative convictions and a prophetic critic of secular liberalism. Unfortunately, she can also be her own worst enemy. ... Referring to John Edwards by using a word meant to demean homosexuals? What was she thinking?”

Ed Cognoski responds:

I think everyone knows what Ann Coulter was thinking, but do readers know what Dr Mohler is thinking? What are those "conservative convictions" that are at risk because of Ann Coulter's "tawdry record of cheap shots, crude slurs, and indefensible personal attacks?"

Dr Mohler carefully doesn't say. Thanks to commenter Paul Barnes, we now know. He cites a beliefnet article that points out that Dr Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky, "says he would support medical treatment, if it were available, to change the sexual orientation of a fetus inside its mother's womb from homosexual to heterosexual." The article quotes from Dr Mohler's blog:

"If a biological basis is found, and if a prenatal test is then developed, and if a successful treatment to reverse the sexual orientation to heterosexual is ever developed, we would support its use as we should unapologetically support the use of any appropriate means to avoid sexual temptation and the inevitable effects of sin."

Ann Coulter's remarks may have been crude and deplorable, but they were only insults. Dr Mohler's thinking is right out of "Brave New World". Dallas Blog did its readers a disservice by not reporting this aspect of the story.