Ann Coulter is a charming women, she use her grace and truth tell us the police of state can change the world. www.elegente.com/

am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you.”

It’s offensive according to whom? Moron, idiot, cretin, imbecile, these were exactly like retard, once technical terms to describe people with mental disabilities.”

When we decide to take any other human's words personally, as in " they hurt me ", we are assuming the role of victim so we can judge others. Sticks and stones, while capable of real injury, are the only weapons, not words, which are merely one person's thoughts at one time - however "sensitive". The fact is, it is the Colters and Palins, who defend the disableds' right to live, to exist, to breathe, whose value to those with disabilities far exceeds those who would scream political incorrectness or even justify abortion. My experience is that those disabled have a strange and wonderful ability to feel and express unconditional love, a blessing so great it need never feel "threatened" by 2 seconds of sound wave.

“It’s offensive according to whom? Moron, idiot, cretin, imbecile, these were exactly like retard, once technical terms to describe people with mental disabilities.”

Thank you Amy Julia for this article. Well said. For those folks who think some of us are "thin skinned" or it's just a bunch of political correctness, please consider walking a day in the shoes of a person with disabilities. People with disabilities have a history of being institutionalized, mocked, systematically murdered and are still have one of the highest rates of abuse and neglect, and criminal victimization of any group. So when someone like John Franklin Stephens says the "R" word hurts--I pay attention. He speaks for the many who cannot speak. This is a vulnerable population, they cannot always speak for themselves. I can make choices about the words I use, and I can educate others about the words they use--- but as long as the majority of the world continue to devalue people with disabilities, I will speak up for people like my daughter. Name calling-- no matter what the name- dehumanizes the person, and blocks the ability to see the other person as a child of God. If we stopped to see the humanity each other we would be in a far less divided place.

I have never seen anyone, no matter their intelligence level or sophistication,who had a more loving, grace-filled life than my severely multiply impaired and "retarded" son who died a little over a decade ago. His imitation of the love of Christ is still something that I hope to acheive.

I have never seen anyone, no matter their intelligence level or sophistication,who had a more loving, grace-filled life than my severely multiply impaired and "retarded" son who died a little over a decade ago. His imitation of the love of Christ is still something that I hope to acheive.

@Karen: "I haven't seen anything in the Bible about Jesus pushing for society to execute those that commit crimes against the society. Old testament, yes." Three things: (1) Jesus didn't address a host of topics that might be on our radar today (e.g., human trafficking); that by itself doesn't tell us his opinion on those matters. (2) Jesus endorsed the entire Old Testament, and there's no new revelation in the New Testament that overturns the OT's mandating of the death penalty. (3) Romans 13:1-4 actually justifies the death penalty. "But I view the difference between the Old and New Testaments as 'What the Jews needed to survive' vs 'What God really wants'." There's some of that going on, to be sure. But that hardly leads to the conclusion that we can simply dispense with the whole of the OT. Parts of it don't carry over--but parts of it do. "The Catholic Church gets this one right - legalized murder is WRONG, whether it's of an infant or an adult." Your wording is loaded in favor of your own bias: by using the term "murder" you're prejudging whether, in fact, all killings are murder. You're simply failing to address the firm conviction held by most that *not* all killing is murder (classic e.g.: combating Hitler in WW2). You're also setting up the OT to contradict itself: it outlaws murder, but establishes the death penalty. Obviously, then, the OT doesn't view the death penalty as murder. " 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's'. I seem to remember that having been said by someone." Yeah, that was Jesus--but I fail to see how it could establish your view of capital punishment (or of the use of the term "retard," by the way). "Government money has always been used for the common good - roads, utilities, etc don't come from nowhere." Huh? Governments have never used "their" (taxpayers') money for evil??? ". . . despite the fact that people can donate to help out those less fortunate than they, and despite the fact that the government tries to help out those that need it - we STILL can't help everyone that needs it." We could if we weren't selfish. My point about government redistribution is that when leftist Christians try to use the Bible to justify socialism, they're *abusing* the Bible. "Since the Churches were building gyms and enlarging their facilities instead of keeping up with the need, the government stepped in and said 'There's no reason people should be dying on our streets'." You've got your history backwards: churches were in fact doing far more than they are today to look after the sick and dying _before_ the government stepped in by creating socialist policies.

we can speak words that are filled with grace and truth and also believe and experience the reality of that grace and truth.