I found a great interview with Garrison Keillor. He touches upon his differences with Dallas that stemmed from the critical article that he wrote back in 2006. (I have posted that article here for those of you who are interested enough to read the whole article. Here’s a small excerpt of his article for those of you who don’t like to read extensive essays:
I got some insight week before last into who supports torture when I went down to Dallas to speak at Highland Park Methodist Church. It was spooky. I walked in, was met by two burly security men with walkie-talkies, and within 10 minutes was told by three people that this was the Bushes' church and that it would be better if I didn't talk about politics. I was there on a book tour for Homegrown Democrat, but they thought it better if I didn't mention it. So I tried to make light of it: I told the audience, "I don't need to talk politics. I have no need even to be interested in politics - I'm a citizen, I have plenty of money and my grandsons are at least 12 years away from being eligible for military service." And the audience applauded! Those were their sentiments exactly. We've got ours, and who cares?
The Methodists of Dallas can be fairly sure that none of them will be snatched off the streets, flown to Guantanamo, stripped naked, forced to stand for 48 hours in a freezing room with deafening noise, so why should they worry? It's only the Jews who are in danger, and the homosexuals and gypsies. The Christians are doing just fine. If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust? |
Getting back to the interview, he gives a nice shoutout to recent reading (I don’t know why he called it a reading, he didn’t read and he didn’t talk about his book, he just plainly entertained us) at the National Cathedral in Washington, in which I, my hubby,![[info]](https://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
divka ,happyfeet96 , and katje0711 had the pleasure to attend. (By the way, in case you didn’t notice, I placed you all in alpha order.)
( The interview is behind the LJ-Cut. )
