[ShinerBock]

She apparently is a "pro-choice Christian" who thinks that all conservative Christians base their convictions in "bigotry, prejudice and ignorance" and are closet racists.

Her email address: elizabeth.hinson@yale.edu

[ikka]

Doesn't sound like it was "her people" at all - most Loonietarians and Metropolitan Community Church types voted for Kerry.

[bmwcyle]

believe in separation of church and state

You believe in Jefferson's letter and not the Constitution.

[JohnnyZ]

Yale Student

Wow, shortest article I ever read!

[Puppage]

the Christian Right

As opposed to the Atheist Left?

[ItsOurTimeNow]

What Bible is this wolf-in-sheeps-clothing reading?

[william clark]

It's amazing how many words some people can use without actually saying anything.

[Aquinasfan]

Parents don't let your kids grow up to be college students.

[doug from upland]

I am a Christian. I also grew up in the American South. “My people”--both Christians and Southerners, according to my friend and many Yale students--are changing our nation with a conservative agenda.
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This is the great lie. Look at the last 50 years and tell me who has been forcing their changes and agenda on this country. It is not the political right.

[Semper Paratus]

Sounds like Howard Dean saying "The Christian Church doesn't belong to Rush Limbaugh".

[Sam the Sham]

She is apparently profoundly ashamed at being at Southerner and a Christian. She feels a need to prove that she isn't "intolerant" or "judgemental".

[Mamzelle]

Not to worry--this trembling, sniveling, trite little twit couldn't reclaim her coat from the coatroom.

[Old Professer]

The man who will stand for anything, stands for nothing.

[ladtx]

She turned her head to the aisle and spent our trip upset and without words.

Can't we all just get alongneck?

[ConservativeDude]

sorry to offend the author (and others perhaps), but the Bible does not teach that God loves all people, which the author says is one of her core beliefs....

[knarf]

Bess and her best friend are very, very close .. it seems.
All was comforted later when the clickity clack of Amtrak ceased it's rythmic cadence ...
this is a heartbeat .. this ia a heartbeat .. this is a heartbeat .. this is a heartbeat ..

[Paradox]

"On the train ride back to Yale from Boston in the morning hours of Nov. 3, 2004, my best friend looked at me through eyes tearing with frustration and said, “Your people did this.” She turned her head to the aisle and spent our trip upset and without words

I know this makes me a bad, bad person, but I couldn't help but get a shot of Schadenfreude when I read this part :)

[Gay State Conservative]

Don't the Unitarian/Universalists call themselves
"Christian"?

[trisham]

As a Christian, I am more concerned with people's actions than I am with titles, and I believe that people can only prove their Christianity through love and commitment to Jesus' teachings. Otherwise, they cannot consider themselves to be affiliated with the same kind of Christianity I profess.

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A new definition of "tolerance".

[EdReform]

Ping

[BigTime]

So her friend was balling on the train because Bush won an election?

And then blames it on her friend?

Your problem is not conservative Christians, lady. It's the morons you hang out with.