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Your blogstress notes with great pleasure the citation of her take-down of the Reclaiming America for Christ conference by the estimable Bill Berkowitz on Talk to Action. Beyond quoting your cybertrix, Berkowitz has an interesting piece on the sudden closures of several political "ministries" of Rev. D. James Kennedy , who is apparently so incompacitated by a heart attack he suffered last December that he has not been heard from publicly since. When the slate of conservative dream-teamers joined some 1,300 attendees at this year's Reclaiming America for Christ conference in early March, few in the crowd could have predicted that within two months the gathering's high-powered sponsoring organization would shut its doors. In late April, that's exactly what D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries did when they announced they were closing the Center for Reclaiming America for Christ. Speculation on the reasons for the closures initially focused on the failing...

It's been but a month since your blogstress broke the news of Ann Coulter 's desecration of the the pulpit at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (a desecration that brought no protest from the pulpit's owners), and, pouf!, mes amis , the Reclaiming America for Christ Center has announced that it is closing, according to the Associated Press . Your blogstress really didn't intend for such drastic consequences of her clever infiltration and subsequent bean-spilling -- really, she didn't! The other ministries of Coral Ridge are expected to survive, if Executive Vice President Brian Fisher has anything to say about it. A word to the wise: Watch out for this guy. He could be the next Ralph Reed .

photo © 2007 Adele M. Stan for Americans United Now it can be told; it was your blogstress who broke the news last month of Ann Coulter's bad night at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. Your cyberscribe's story of threats and soul-searching in sunny South Florida now appears on the Web site of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the venerable organization that sent your écrivaine into the lion's den. With regard to the all-round Christian love and acceptance claimed by propagators of this particular brand of faith were the misrepresentations of Islam by Ann Coulter and Tony Perkins , lo, of the Family Research Council . Herewith, a taste: Both stirred the pot against Muslims, as well, with Coulter repeating her post-9/11 remark that the leaders of Muslim countries should be forcibly converted to Christianity, and Perkins complaining that the Muslim call to prayer is "now broadcast over American cities." (The use of the word "broadcast...

At The Politico , Anne Schroeder offers up some juicy dish on right-wingers apparently appalled by Ann Coulter 's gay-bashing: At a conference in Ft. Lauderdale over the weekend at the Center for Reclaiming America, which is connected to TV preacher James Kennedy ’s Coral Ridge Ministries, Coulter reiterated her John Edwards description... [...] A birdie on the scene told us that after the f-word remark about Johnny Boy, the hundreds of conservatives who filled the church to the brim, gasped in shock. Moments later, she bid her adieu. For more on this, check out the (PDF file) letter sent by Rev. Barry Lynn of Americans United to Rev. Gary Cass of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church.