Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

Indeed!

I was so tempted to have Spike, perhaps, come forth with an appropriate quote from the KJV (I just know that William was intimately familiar with the Book of Common Prayer and the KJV, even if he only attended services to make his mother happy), along the lines of 'what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?' -- since that seems to me to be what too many people do, choosing to cling to the world view their parents had given them EVEN if that worldview said that they were irrevocably damned.

It's the only explanation I can find for cases like the 30-something-year-old gay man who loved his partner but couldn't be dissuaded from the belief -- imparted to him by his dead parents -- that his homosexuality meant he was forever barred from God's love and grace. That just made me so sad, and so MAD . . . !