EATING AT JEZEBEL'S TABLE

The Sermon on the Mount took a hike last night at Southern Evangelical Seminary in Matthews, N.C., while Ann Coulter told 400 "Christians" who'd paid $55 apiece for the privilege that it's perfectly okay to hate liberals since they're the devil. Among the other nasty things she said, she played footsie with inciting violence against doctors who perform abortions.

Southern Evangelical Seminary, which was founded in Charlotte in 1992 for the defense of Christianity (which, God knows, is a puny runt in need of well-armored bigots) is now run by a graduate of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University who is putting his education to its proper use: the complete conflation of "Christianity" with Republican right-wing politics. Hence the ministry of Ann Coulter last night.

And the people were well fed, for their money.