I’ve gotten lots of good feedback on my piece yesterday on the murder of a Catholic woman in Chicago, allegedly by a gay man who reportedly confessed that he did it in response to her trying to talk him out of sleeping with men. My piece was about the media’s double standard in reporting “hate crimes” against Christians, versus against politically correct minorities. Some readers thought I was slandering Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson when I called them “enemies of humanity.” I was actually being sarcastic for rhetorical effect, describing the pastors as many in the media see them. Similarly, when I spoke of the Baptists on the airplane who tried to witness to me, I call their religion “exclusivist” not to make fun of them, but to highlight the fact that they believe Jesus is Lord, period, and not “Jesus is Lord for me, but if you want to believe Junior Samples died for your sins, hey, who am I to judge?” In other words, those people believe the truth claims of their religion exclude the truth claims of other religions (including mine, which is also exclusivist in that way). I’ve got no problem with that. More power to ‘em. They’re right. But to many in the media, that’s intolerable. Which is the point I was trying to make.