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In a message dated 11/2/2005 7:50:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The term "Christian" in recent history has been taken over by a minority of Christian believers who claim to speak for all Christians. I was recently contacted by an evangelical Christian in nearby, suburban
Maryland, following a visit by Sheriff's Deputies to his door. He had
distributed gospel leaflets of his own making in and around the neighborhood
where he lives. He included his name, address and phone number on
them.
It turns out that the County Manager, who was then standing for
re-election, had the same name, including the same given and family names and
the same middle initial.
The contact has had this name his whole life. No one asked him if he
wanted it. It was given to him by his parents. He could, of course,
change it customarily or with judicial order. But he was never inclined to
do so.
The deputies were present at his home to demand that he discontinue the
distribution of his gospel literature with his name and contact information on
it because it would be thought by some that he was the county manager then
standing for re-election.
This is a true story.
I think it explains as well as anything why, even if what Marci claims
above is verifiably, statistically provable, it is of no particular significance
at all. That small minority, as she sees it, has not dominated the forum
except to the extent that bastardized depictions of them in the media are an
occasional component of the center left media glot and except to the extent that
every one else that claims the same name seems content to sit on their lees and
gripe about the too many of their brothers in the news.
Jim Henderson
Senior Counsel
ACLJ
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