[quote name='CocheseUGA']Not commenting on the OP at all, but I think it's ridiculous that white Christians are suddenly the right people to be bigoted and racist about.[/QUOTE]
Not necessarily. Two years ago, the Cincinnati city council proposed a citywide vote (in the general election in Fall 2004) to repeal a ban on protections for sexual orientation discrimination - the city charter, up until that point, explicitly prohibited any law from being made *protecting* people from sexual orientation-related discrimination.
The Christian groups and conservative groups joined together to label sexual orientation protections a "special right" for homosexuals, and they support "equal rights."
Now, it's not a controversial or stereotypical claim to say that blacks, on the whole, tend to be very Christian (just as, if not moreso, than whites - when you consider times of daily prayer, church services attended, etc). In this city battle, they were fronted by the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Shuttlesworth), most assuredly not a Republican or a conservative. The conflict was interesting to see, as liberals and progressives that respected his work in the civil rights movement had conflicted feeelings as a result of his opposition to ending discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Anyway, I can go on an on - I think I understand what you want to say - and the problem with the argument is that claiming "white christian bigotry" is the consequence of who is the public face of christians. And that, of course, like many other things, is white people.
It's ironic, of course, given people like Shuttlesworth (who has since retired, but this is the first thing he'd done that could be construed as "conservative christian"), Al Sharpton, Joe Lieberman, and others who wear their religion on their sleeve. On the other hand, those who want to use religion as a force for good in our greater society, to unite rather than ostracize, to help rather than harm - let them be as religious as they want, as far as I'm concerned. It's those who want to use religion as a tool of "eliminating the competition" (in the sense of science, or sexualities, those things contrary to what this particular group says "is the way things ought to be") that I want to fight against.
Anyway, I'm very very tired and hungover this morning, so I'll just stop and hope there's a shred of coherence in there.
nuts like Mike McConnell and Bill Cunningham who perform on the air; it's the former 
