Gene Robinson! Episcopalian Bishop and a rarity in America, a Christian leaning Christian! I take it he is not from Alabama or adjoining states. How is it a man can get away with actually emulating Jesus Christ rather than the American standard of smearing the crap of intolerance, bigotry, ignorance and NRA all over the poor unemployed hippy in a dress? Why hasn’t he been run out of town on a rail? Oh wait, I think he was?
This reminds me of my college days when we had what we called then “Jesus Freaks.” A kindly name we gave to kindly people. We even had Hari Krishnas running around being nice and saying nice things though a bit bothersome at airports. What happened?
Jerry Falwell with the help of Ronald Reagan – who was never seen in a church – politicized Christianity by changing the issue of abortion from a Protestant vs Catholic issue to a Protestant and Catholic vs women and reason issue.