Editing Michael Coren (section)

==Controversies==
===AIDS and sexuality===
In the 1990s and 2000s, Coren was alleged to have spoken objectionably about people with [[AIDS]]. In 1994, the ''[[Review of Journalism|Ryerson Review of Journalism]]'' reported Coren's response to an interview question about the disease:

<blockquote>"What I do is attack something like a double standard on AIDS. Sure, we must find a cure for AIDS, we must put enormous amounts of money into it...” he pauses. "Look, people are dying all over. When it was blacks in Africa dying of AIDS, no one gave a toss. Nobody gave a toss. Suddenly, it's middle-class men in California and everyone goes crazy about it. It's a double standard. I'm trying to provoke people into rethinking comfortable points of view".<ref name="Ovsenny" /></blockquote>

In 2006, Coren wrote a franker newspaper piece in ''[[The Toronto Sun|Toronto Sun]]'', questioning "Why is AIDS so special?":
<blockquote>At its most simple, stop fornicating. There, I've said it. One of the things that can end a career in North American media. Yet it's true. AIDS in the West is still overwhelmingly a threat to male homosexuals and intravenous drug users. It's now found in other groups, but it has taken years for that to happen and they still represent the minority of sufferers. More than this, the bulk of the newly infected tend to be people who have contracted the virus through permissive sexual practices.<ref>{{cite news|author = Michael Coren|title=Why is AIDS so special?|newspaper=[[Toronto Sun]]|date=19 August 2006|id=1764549}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thelocal.se/discuss/index.php?showtopic=4920?showtopic=4920|author=Roy E.|title=Reposting of "Why is AIDS so special?"}}</ref> </blockquote>

With reference to the [[Bible]], Coren would compare homosexuality to illegal sexual practices. In 2007, Coren wrote an ''[[Edmonton Sun]]'' article, saying:
<blockquote>As for Jesus not condemning homosexuality, nor did He condemn bestiality and necrophilia... Christ did indeed condemn homosexuality, as does the Old Testament, St. Paul, the church fathers and all Christianity until a few liberal Protestants in the last decades of the 20th century who, frankly, are more concerned with [[political correctness]] than [[truth]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Blizzard|first1=Christina|last2=Coren|first2=Michael|title=Debate over sexual orientation dividing Christians|newspaper=[[Edmonton Sun]]|date = 22 May 2007|url = https://walkingwithintegrity.blogspot.com/2007/05/debate-over-sexual-orientation-dividing_23.html?m=0}}</ref></blockquote>

=== International affairs ===

In September 2006, Coren published an article in the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'' supporting the use of tactical nuclear strikes against Iran.<ref>{{cite news|id=1795183|author=Michael Coren|title=We should nuke Iran|newspaper=Toronto Sun|date=2 September 2006}}</ref> This position was retracted the following year.<ref>{{cite news|id=4590877|date=20 October 2007|title=How wrong can I be?|newspaper=Toronto Sun|author=Michael Coren}}</ref>