The column was written by Angela Thomas, the wife of Bill Thomas, an assistant pastor at the First Baptist Church in Madisonville. (AP) - A newspaper column lampooning Southern Baptists, calling the group “the crazy old paranoid uncle of evangelical Christians,” is causing quite a stir in a Kentucky city and put a pastor’s job in jeopardy. The pastor’s apparent offense? His wife wrote a less-than-flattering “humor column” about Southern Baptists. I thought of that story when I came across an AP report today about a Southern Baptist church seeking an assistant pastor’s ouster. “But this has turned a little more vicious,” said Smith, 51, wearing a decade-old knit tie and ink pens in his white shirt pocket. He knew “a person or two might pull an ad, that we might lose a subscriber or two.” Leon Smith, said he never expected such a hostile response. Eighty-two percent voted for President Bush in 2000. 705) wholeheartedly support the re-election of the man whose “Western White House” made their speck on the map famous.

“We felt a little betrayed,” said Larry Nelson, manager of the Crawford Country Style, a downtown shop that sells “Luvya Dubya” trinkets and other Bush memorabilia. Local businesses pulled their ads and banned the paper from their stores.

So when the Lone Star Iconoclast, a tiny weekly that bills itself as Bush’s hometown paper, endorsed Democrat John Kerry, there was hell to pay. Bush’s hometown newspaper endorsing Democrat John Kerry:ĬRAWFORD, Texas (AP) - Signs at the bank, the cafe and the Bottlinger Grain bins all declare Crawford – the proud home of the president’s ranch – as “Bush Country.” One of the favorite stories I wrote for The Associated Press during the 2004 presidential campaign involved the publisher of Republican George W. Hell, it seems, hath no fury like a community - or a congregation - scorned in print.

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