Risk management

[mmcirvin]

You know, one of the problems with becoming a parent is that it gives you an extremely strong reason not to participate in massive civil disobedience that could result in your doing serious jail time, even when a really good candidate appears.

I suppose I was never cut out to be the rebel badass anyway.

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Re: Interesting

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

...though I should hasten to add that given the range of attitudes among American Catholics today, even that has complex and sometimes contradictory effects.

As I said back when people were talking about the maps showing concentrations of people with church affiliations, the religious-secular divide in America doesn't even fall reliably among red state/blue state lines; it's a lot more complicated than that. The middle of the continent tends to be very religious, but that includes liberal Lutherans in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and super-conservative Protestants in Nebraska, and Mexican-American Catholic Democrats in southern Texas. The Northeast has a lot of Catholics; the Southeast is more secular than you think, but religious life there is overwhelmingly dominated by right-wing evangelical, Pentecostal and fundamentalist churches. And the Sagebrush Rebellion area, the libertarian-Republican West between the Rockies and the Sierra Nevada, is actually pretty secular except for the heavily Mormon areas in Utah and Idaho.