[sitetest]

Dear TexasGreg,

That's a very nice analysis of Methodist political affiliation. It helps us to understand why both President Bush and Hitlery can both be Methodists. It shows significant understanding of the complexities and subtleties involved.

Which would further undermine any effort to cite religious discrimination in a case that overtly appears to be political discrimination.


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[TexasGreg]

Thank you for the compliment. I'm a UM clergyman ... so, UM demographic distribution and politics are something with which I am familiar.

Which would further undermine any effort to cite religious discrimination in a case that overtly appears to be political discrimination.

Not at all ... it substantiates the central point: any political discrimination is predicated upon a liberal bias against religious southerners, regardless of denomination. The brand "Evangelical" is NOT so much a denominational factor as it is a theological and social-orientation one. What the arrogant Northeastern Liberals hate are us ignorant louts in the south who refuse to listen to their betters in the north; and we refuse to follow their lead because our minds are infected with a conservative/evangelical religious agenda which is locked in the "stone-age" of Biblical morality. Witness their attempt to brand us with the "Slave-State" iron. Oh, sure, they also hate those Roman Catholics who dared to oppose Kerry on religious grounds ... and there, too, it was predicated upon the "primitive" notions of traditional and biblical standards that any enlightened people would have long ago jettisoned.

Gee, I'm frightening myself ... I know their rhetoric too well.