Republicans and/or Fundamentalist Evangelical Christians You Love

[bertha katzenengel]

Seriously. I know I'm not the only one.

I love my brother-in-law. His wife, my eldest sister, is an atheist. I don't know how they've made it work, but their 25th anniversary is next month. And in December Mrs. V. and I are going home for his 50th birthday party. He doesn't know we'll be there.

He was so wonderful to me when I was younger. We played softball together. He called me "Hargrove" because I took so much time at the plate between pitches. He taught me how to drive a stick shift. He called me when there was one out in the top of the ninth in game 7 of the 2002 World Series -- he's just as big an Angels fan as I am. We were on the phone, screaming at each other and celebrating together from 2,600 miles away. O8)

He's a great guy. I doubt we'll ever see eye to eye on politics, but that does not matter one whit.

Who do you love? Who can you be with and care for without acting out the way you feel about Republicans or Fundies in general?