You can call me girl any old day! My son calls me "old girl". LOL
Tippy, I am not as religious as you are. I believe in God and live my life like I feel He would want me to but I don't go to church and am pretty quiet when it comes to talking religion. I feel God in where I want him to be. I do not let any religious groups tell me how I feel or think or how I should vote or live my life. They did not raise my children and they did not dictate to me how many I should have.
I will add here that I was protestant, turned Catholic only to have the priest run off with one of the nuns. 
Obama's church would not have been my church but that is personal choice. But people lumped all of Rev Wright's good work for years into a couple sound bites that were political. I doubt, yet, if anyone heard the entire sermon leading up to those remarks. But Obama is no more responsible for those remarks than I am for my priest running off with the nun.
But I would not have gone to Sarah Palin's church for 5 minutes either. As soon as someone starting talking to me in tongues, I'd have dove thru a window.
I am also not into laying your hand on someones head, they fall on the floor and are "healed."
But Church and State should be separated. Politics does not belong on the pulpit and religion does not need to dictate how the government is run. Ministers should do what they are intended to do, which is teach the word of God, and keep their noses out of politics.
Our religious "leaders" have gone more and more political over the last few years and have forgotten what they're supposed to be doing, which is speaking of God. Now they want to tell you how to vote. Amazing, isn't it, when WalMart just got in trouble for trying to sway how their employees voted.
