When asked during an interview about the morality of non-marital sex, she replied: "Christians are the most tolerant people in the world—because we know there's original sin. We know people do bad things. But it seems to me it's a much worse thing to go around saying that it isn't a sin to commit a sin. I mean—at least feel guilty about it."

She has stated that her Christian faith "fuels everything," she writes, and that it particularly fuels her book Godless.De Pasquale, Lisa. Exclusive Interview: Coulter Says Book Examines 'Mental Disorder' of Liberalism." Human Events. June 6, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006. In that book, Coulter says in a footnote, "Throughout this book, I often refer to Christians and Christianity because I am a Christian and I have a fairly good idea of what they believe, but the term is intended to include anyone who subscribes to the Bible of the God of Abraham, including Jews and others." Coulter has stated: "Although my Christianity is somewhat more explicit in this book (Godless), Christianity fuels everything I write. Being a Christian means that I am called upon to do battle against lies, injustice, cruelty, hypocrisy—you know, all the virtues in the church of liberalism."

In a commentary on Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" she wrote: "Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of 'kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed')."Coulter, Ann. "The passion of the liberal." WorldNetDaily.'' March 3, 2004. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.

Coulter also quotes Christian scripture in her work. Godless begins with: "They exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creation rather than the creator.... Therefore, God gave them up to passions of dishonor, for their females exchanged the natural use for that which is contrary to nature. — Romans 1:25-26"

Political activities

The Paula Jones - Bill Clinton case

Coulter disagreed with the lead lawyer, Joseph Cammaratta, who advised Jones that her case was weak and to settle it. (Daley, 1999) From the onset, Jones had sought an apology from Clinton at least as eagerly as she sought a settlement.Barak, Daphne. Jones would have been happy with an apology. Irish Examiner. September 23, 1998. Retrieved on July 10, 2006. However, Coulter said she believed the case was strong, that Jones was telling the truth, that Clinton should be held publicly accountable for his misconduct, and that a settlement would give the impression that Jones was merely interested in extorting money from the President. (Daley, 1999)

David Daley, who wrote the interview piece for the Hartford Courant recounted what followed:

Coulter also told Isikoff, "We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the President."Conason, Joe; Lyons, Gene. "Impeachment's little elves." Salon.com. March 4, 2000. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.

The case went to court after Jones broke with Coulter and her original legal team, and was summarily dismissed. The judge ruled that even if her allegations proved true, Jones did not show that she had suffered any damages, stating "plaintiff has not demonstrated any tangible job detriment or adverse employment action for her refusal to submit to the governor's alleged advances. The president is therefore entitled to summary judgment on plaintiff's claim of quid pro quo sexual harassment", and dismissed the case. Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000 in exchange for not appealing the decision. The Jones lawsuit led to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. Coulter wrote a book critical of Clinton called The Case Against Bill Clinton. Coulter later wrote a very critical column on Paula Jones in 2000 after she revealed that she would pose for nude pictures in an adult magazine.Coulter, Ann. "Clinton sure can pick 'em." Jewish World Review. October 30, 2000. Retrieved on July 11, 2006.

Potential congressional run

Allegations of improper conduct

Registration and voting

According to poll worker Jim Whited, Coulter tried to vote in the February 7, 2006, town council election at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, where she should vote based on her actual address. Although Coulter initially tried to vote in the proper location, Coulter left the precinct as soon as Whited inquired about the discrepancy in her address and voting precinct. She then cast her ballot in the precinct down the road, St. Edward's, that matched the address on her registration, which was actually the incorrect location for someone with her actual street address.E&P Staff. "Fla. Elections Office Getting Impatient With Columnist Ann Coulter ." Editor & Publisher. May 11, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.

Willful submission of any false voter registration information is a third degree felony in the state of Florida." Title IX, Chapter 104, Section 104.011: False swearing; submission of false voter registration information." Florida Statutes. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.

Plagiarism

In June 2006, the New York Post reported that John Barrie, CEO of iParadigms and creator of the iThenticate plagiarism detection software, had found at least three examples of what he and his program claim is plagiarism in Coulter's book Godless and other examples in the last 12 months of her syndicated columns.Recchia, Philip. "Copycatty Coulter pilfers prose: Pro." New York Post. July 2, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006. Others have provided further instances of alleged plagiarism, bringing the total number reported to 25.Rood, Justin. "'Complete' List of Coulter Plagiarism Allegations." TPMMuckraker. July 7, 2006. Retrieved on July 12, 2006.Brynaert, Ron. "More examples of 'possible plagiarism' from Coulter's 'Godless' book." The Raw Story. July 10, 2006. Retrieved on July 11, 2006.

The president of Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Coulter's column, rejected the allegations. An imprint of Random House, the publisher of Godless, has stated that the allegations regarding the book are trivial, meritless and irresponsible.Italie, Hillel. "Syndicator denies Coulter lifted material." Sun Herald. July 10, 2006. Retrieved on July 11, 2006.

Notable Controversies

Speeches at college campuses

On one occasion, during an appearance at University of Arizona, a pie was thrown at her, splattering her and causing $1,830 worth of damage to a stage backdrop. The two perpetrators were charged with criminal damage, and one of them later said, "we were throwing pies at her ideas, not at her."Staff Writer. "'Al Pieda' Targets Ann Coulter." The Smoking Gun. October 22, 2004. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.Wells, Holly. "Former student enters plea in 2004 Coulter pie assault." Arizona Daily Wildcat. January 12, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006. Ann notes that she was not hit by the pies, which were thrown by liberals who "throw like girls," and that the College Republican women in attendance "gave them a beating they won't forget.""The Pie-Proof Ann Coulter on Hecklers." Fox News. May 4, 2005. Retrieved on July 13, 2006.

In another instance, Coulter was heckled while speaking at a crowd of 2,600 at the University of Connecticut to the point that she ended her speech early and began to take questions from the audience, remarking that "I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am." A student said of the rowdy crowd, "It really appalled me that we're not able to come together as a group and listen to a different view in a respectful environment." Wong, Shelly K. "Hecklers Cause Coulter to Cut UConn Speech." Associated Press., December 7, 2005. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.

Speaking at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26, 2006, Coulter said of United States Supreme Court Justice Stevens, "We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' crème brûlée. That's just a joke, for you in the media."Staff Writer. "Coulter Jokes About Poisoning Supreme Court Justice." Associated Press. January 27, 2006

At a February 23, 2006 appearance at Indiana University, Bloomington, in a speech entitled, "Liberals Are Wrong About Everything," she claimed, "Liberals hate God and hate America," and that there is no hope for the Democratic party.Aasen, Adam. "Ann Coulter splits IU's crowd." Indiana Daily Student. February 24, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006. Her speech was frequently interrupted while protestors were removed. The school's newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, reported that during the Q&A session, a young man asked her if she didn't like Democrats, wouldn't it just be better to have a dictatorship; Coulter replied: "You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?". Shane Kennedy, then president of the IU College Republicans student group, defended her comments, saying "I think the guy could have been more respectful to her."

The 9/11 "Jersey Girls"

In a long chapter titled, "Liberal Doctrine of Infallibility: Sobbing Hysterical Women," Coulter argues that one of liberalism's proselytizing techniques is to choose, "people with 'absolute moral authority' - Democrats with a dead husband, a dead child, a wife who works at the CIA, a war record, ^* a terminal illness..." as spokespersons to advance political goals. Doing so stifles a rational debate of the policy being advanced, according to Coulter, since, "you can't respond to them because that would be questioning the authenticity of their suffering."

She lists a catalogue of such persons, including grieving mom and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, gun-control activist Carolyn McCarthy, paralyzed actor and embyonic stem-cell activist Christopher Reeve, disabled Vietnam veteran and anti-Iraq-war activist Max Cleland, and the four Jersey Girls, about whom she wrote, "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. These self-obsessed women seemed genuinely unaware that 9/11 was an attack on our nation and acted as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them. ... I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much ... the Democrat ratpack gals endorsed John Kerry for president ... cutting campaign commercials... how do we know their husbands weren't planning to divorce these harpies? Now that their shelf life is dwindling, they'd better hurry up and appear in Playboy."Coulter, Ann. "Godless." 2006, Crown Forum Publishing. pp. 100-112.

Coulter's description of these women has garnered criticism, some of it invoking the memory of the women's tragically deceased husbands. The book was released on June 6, 2006, and that morning, Matt Lauer of NBC's The Today Show interviewed Coulter. He questioned the propriety of several of its statements about the four Jersey Girls, including "They believe the entire country was required to marinate in their exquisite personal agony. Apparently, denouncing Bush was part of the closure process." She defended the challenged statements and remarked that Lauer was "getting testy" with her.E&P Staff. "Ann Coulter Attacks 9/11 Widows." Editor & Publisher. June 6, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.

The next day, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) called Coulter's charge a "vicious, mean-spirited attack", suggesting that Coulter's book should have been titled Heartless.Staff Writer. "Clinton slams Coulter's 'vicious' put-down of some 9/11 widows." CNN. June 7, 2006.Lathem, Niles; Algar, Selim. "Give-'em-hill Fury vs. Coulter." New York Post. June 8, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.

Coulter later responded to Senator Clinton: "Before criticizing others for being 'mean' to women, perhaps Hillary should talk to her husband who was accused of rape by Juanita Broaddrick and was groping Kathleen Willey at the very moment Willey's husband was committing suicide."

On the same day, Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) called Coulter a, "hatemonger" on the floor of the House and urged his Republican colleagues to denounce her as well.Staff Writer. "9-11 commish lashes Coulter." WorldNetDaily. June 9, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006. Later, Tim Roemer, a member of the 9/11 Commission and a former Democratic Congressman, urged Americans not to buy Coulter's book.Elliot, Philip. "9/11 Commissioner Criticizes Coulter." ABC News. June 9, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.

She has consistently defended her words and makes no apologies, even goading her critics by repeating her criticism of the Jersey Girls in subsequent columns, "If you're upset about what I said about the Witches of East Brunswick, try turning the page. Surely, I must have offended more than those four harpies."Coulter, Ann. "Party of Rapist Proud to be Godless." anncoulter.com. June 14, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.Coulter, Ann. "Godless causes liberals to pray ... for a book burning." anncoulter.com.'' June 21, 2006. Retrieved on July 10, 2006.

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