Haha, let's laugh at the ignorant religious folks, yuck yuck!

You know, I'm a transcultural matriarchal-communalist lower-income lesbian from an "Earth centered" non-Christian religion and ethnic group. But the sort of derogatory, dismissive, snide, failed attempts at humor and self-congratulatory superiority displayed in some of the "reporters" here deeply repel many presumed comrades such as myself. Liberals can be such hypocritic and judgmental creeps. When my conservative Christian neighbours open their homes and unjudgmental arms to me, I wonder why I bother with American progressives at all... With liberals, more often than not, all I've seen is bigotry by other names.

Furthermore, I certainly hope these "writers" were forthcoming in their investigations by notifying their informant congregations that they would be profiling them for this article. If not, these people invaded religious communties' worship space not as curious citizens, but as exploitative stealth agents for a journalistic company. Such an act would be completely unethical by professional standards. But then it is often noted that journalists hold to a more skeevy standard of ethics than say, anthropology or even law enfocement.

My goodness. Were your writers adults? Because they sure sounded like snide 5th grade girls savaging the unpopular classmate's birthday party.

Maybe you could get some thoughtful grown-ups as writers next time? Just a suggestion.