The gold medalist is a teenager of deep faith and gratitude -- and that can be a little unnerving
Really? To whom is it unnerving? And why?
Please, writers from 'zines like Salon and those who internally digest them, just come out of your closet and admit you want all people of faith to shut up and go away. Let's be honest about this quiet bigotry now. This attitude has already gelded Protestant leaders. They keep trying to make you and yours happy and have just about made mainstream Protestantism irrelevant, all because they think that's what you want. But you and me, we know the truth, don't we? You're not going to reward Protestant leaders for their efforts, are you? It's time to battle this out honestly in what William Blake called "mental fight". I know you want us silent, so that means it's time to shout.
Also, I'd like to add that I find it a little discomfiting that a white writer for Salon, a 'zine with an overwhelmingly white readership, would wish to suppress a genuine expression of African-American Christianity. It's almost as if you're saying that you want not only people of faith, but people of color, to shut up and go away. Ew.