Ann Coulter: Fascist or jackass? You decide.

Now that conservatives are pretty much done raising hell (rightly) about John Edwards' former staff fascists, Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan, they are confronted with an old dilemma of their own: What, oh what, to do with Ann Coulter?

After the right's resident bomb-thrower called the Democratic presidential candidate a "faggot" Friday, her audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference made their choice. They cheered and applauded her.

Which makes them -- not to mention Coulter (whom I consider both a fascist AND a jackass) -- not one bit better than Edwards' erstwhile Internet mavens, who were noted for using the same level of language about Christians that Coulter routinely spews . . . to the delight of the GOP's lynch mobs.

Coulter claims to be a Christian. I say she's more like a Pharisee with jackbooted overtones.

She throws around slurs like "faggot" like so much self-righteous confetti. But here's how the Lord she claims to follow dealt with her ilk long, long ago:

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But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area, and all the people started coming to him, and he sat down and taught them.
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Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery and made her stand in the middle.
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They said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.
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Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?"
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They said this to test him, so that they could have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.
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But when they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."
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Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
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And in response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders. So he was left alone with the woman before him.
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Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
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She replied, "No one, sir." Then Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go, (and) from now on do not sin any more."

YOU'LL NOTE that it wasn't the adulterous woman who raised hell until the Romans crucified Jesus. It was the people who used their religious faith for political ends, which is tantamount to making your political ends your true religious faith.

And that's anti-Christ, if not Antichrist.