Bully Coulter vs. Jim Wallis

My friend Claire recently sent me one of the latest articles from Ann Coulter's website. Here's the link to her recent ranting-

http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/welcome.cgi

The first thing that struck me about this article was her continual chastisement of the Hollywood set and how they waste their riches on frivolous things such as massive mansions and expensive water by the case. I almost laughed myself silly at her outrage because what does she think all those rich Republican CEOs and businessmen do with their money? She's okay with them spending their fortunes however they want, but if Hollywood Stars are free with their money it's a sin? Yet another famous Coulter double standard. (And I'll bet of the two groups, the rich Democrats give a lot more of their wealth to charity.)
But the gist of this article is that she's basically declared a crusade against global warming. Ironically she seems to be one of those irrational Republicans still holding on to the notion that scientists are still solidly on both sides of the aisle on the global warming issue. I know of course that she hasn't actually watched "An Inconvenient Truth," (in fact I think global warming is more inconvenient to her than anyone else as it punches a giant hole in one of her favorite arguments) but if she had she would know a study has been done of hundreds of scientific articles on global warming, and absolutely none of them disputed the fact that global warming is real and significantly affected by humans.
Still this is the same woman who recently called John Edwards a faggot, so I shouldn't expect any kind of willingness to hear others out who don't agree with her, or to even write about her opinions in anything other than a haze of hatred. Simply put Ann Coulter is a bully and it's silly of me to expect her to act like anything else.
This becomes particularly apparent when I contrast her to my new hero, Jim Wallis. Mr. Wallis recently wrote an article discussing the denial of certain Christians on the Religious Right who like Ms.Coulter are convinced that global warming is a bogeyman made up by liberals and not worth our time. Here's the article-

http://www.beliefnet.com/blogs/godspolitics/2007/03/jim-wallis-dr-dobson-lets-have-real.html

Wallis points out, without insulting anyone I might add, that there is no reason global warming shouldn't be considered as much of a moral issue as issues like abortion and gay marriage. In fact in a show of his usual brilliance he goes on to say the following-
Is the fact that 30,000 children will die globally today, and everyday, from needless hunger and disease a great moral issue for evangelical Christians? How about the reality of 3 billion of God’s children living on less than $2 per day? And isn’t the still-widespread and needless poverty in our own country, the richest nation in the world, a moral scandal? What about pandemics like HIV/AIDS that wipe out whole generations and countries, or the sex trafficking of massive numbers of women and children? Should genocide in Darfur be a moral issue for Christians? And what about disastrous wars like Iraq? And then there is, of course, the issue that got Dobson and his allies so agitated. If the scientific consensus is right - climate change is real, is caused substantially by human activity, and could result in hundreds of thousands of deaths - then isn’t that also a great moral issue? Could global warming actually be alarming evidence of human tinkering with God’s creation?
So there it is. Can we as Christians really put these prescient issues on the back burner and deny that they are just as moral as the issues Republicans claim have greater importance? Part of the reason Coulter and those like her bother me so much is they spout the dogma that "moral" politics can only involve abortion, gay marriage, and the teaching of sexual abstinence. Yet the mistress of morality and her fellow holier-than-thou colleagues ignore issues like poverty, the war in Iraq, and global warming, which have just as much a right, if not more, to be considered moral politics as well. Statistically those three issues kill far more people than those few the Far Right is all up in arms about. Christians can't claim to support a culture of life if they turn a blind eye to those dying by the political issues that Democrats are traditionally concerned about, and claim that abortion, abstinence, and gay marriage are the only "moral" concerns in politics we should be worried about.
I can't stop those of you who want to believe the hateful and ignorant things that Ann Coulter says. But between her and Jim Wallis, I certainly know who I respect more. I choose to support a culture of life-for ALL issues, not just the ones championed by the Far Right.
Let's end the Religious Right's monopoly on morality. There are definitely more pressing issues at hand than just the ones they're laying on the table.