re: #2 Charles Johnson

I was just talking to a friend of mine, a fellow moderate/liberal Christian like myself. I mentioned a few days ago that being a closeted liberal in the midst of a wingnut family is not entirely unlike being a closeted homosexual. Aside from the threat of death - I mean, physical violence, emotional abuse and rejection, attempts at conversion or intervention… It’s all on the table depending on the severity of the wingnut. Not to say that coming out as a liberal would be as significant as coming out as homosexual, but the social stigma would be similar.