"It's been a tough year for the secularist crowd," Ann Coulter wrote in her column this week. She starts by discussing liberals' problems with Catholicism, including the Catholic church's views on abortion, homosexuality, and female priests.

Then she takes a turn towards Brian Nichols:

The escape and capture of Brian Nichols shows women playing roles they should not (escorting dangerous criminals) and women playing roles they do best (making men better people).

Nichols' murderous rampage began when he took the gun from a 5-foot-tall grandmother who was his sole guard at the Fulton County Courthouse. It ended when an otherwise unremarkable 26-year-old woman appealed to the Christian conscience of this same violent killer holding her hostage.

Recounting how Ashley Smith read portions of "The Purpose Driven Life" (by Rick Warren), as well as "from another popular book that's been dropped from all news accounts of this incident: the New Testament," she wonders what a liberal might have done in the same situation:

Heaven help the average liberal if this ever happens to him! What would an urban secularist do? Come sit down and let me read to you from Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men." Or maybe he could put a SpongeBob video in the VCR. WE ARE FAM-I-LEEEEE! At least before he killed again, the dangerous fugitive would have warm feelings toward homosexuals.

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