>So a couple of weeks ago for the first time in 20 years he had a problem with it ? <s> I honestly think he doesn't think the rantings of any preacher are important enough to get worked up over - just the kind of thing that people who cling to guns and religion take seriously.

Charles - have you ever belonged to a church? I've belonged to the same synagogue for nearly 30 years, and I can assure you that there have been many times that I haven't agreed with the rabbi's message from the pulpit. Was any of it as extreme as Wright's stuff? No, but plenty of it, especially in political areas, was absolutely on the other side of an issue from what I believe.

So why did I stay in that synagogue. Because belonging to a congregation is about far more than the words of sermons. It's about community, about what the institution does as a whole, and so forth.

Tamar