Pulled from the live headline stream along the left hand margin of the FCF, "The Daily Kos" posts a short narrative of a Topeka Baptist Church (TBC) camera crew filming on the streets there and the strange encounter they had.
It was a woman I didn't recognize, but I was instantly turned off by her 'Run with Ryun' polo shirt. Casey seemed to know her, though, and let her know we were with TBC and that we were doing a video project. He asked her what she prayed for, and she said this:
"I pray, every day, that my husband, Jim Ryun, wins re-election for the United States House of Representatives."
I told her she couldn't say that on a church thing. She seemed generally surprised by this. And then she asked me if I wanted to volunteer for her husband's campaign.
I was a little taken aback at this, I'll admit, so my declining her offer may have been a little more rude and abrupt than usual, because she asked me, "Why not? You're...you're not a...a Democrat, are you?"
And of course, I told the truth. "Yes, I am," I said.
"And you're saved?" Apparently in Mrs. Ryun's world, you can't be a Democrat and a Christian at the same time.
"Absolutely," I said. "I'm also a member of the ACLU."
She seemed genuinely taken aback at this. She asked specifically what I disagreed with her husband on.
"Well, the torture bill he voted for a couple weeks ago." She was geniunely clueless as to what I was talking about. "The McCain compromise?" I offered. She then said something derogatory about John McCain, but we were no closer to getting her to understand what the bill was or what it did. "It's a bill that gives the president to declare anyone he likes--regardless of whether he's a US citizen--an enemy combatant and thrown in jail without due process."
Her comeback to this was "Well, are you saying that just because you're a citizen means you're not an enemy of this country?"
"Of course not," I said, "But you're innocent until proven guilty."
Read it all at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/7/235239/264
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