Dallas Pastor Ties Judaism to Alcoholism and Other 'Dangerous Isms' But Meant No Insult. Right.

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It’s how I remind myself what a hick I am. Whenever something really embarrassing happens in Dallas, I immediately check to see if The New York Times has got it up online yet. Who cares? The self-conscious hick in my bathroom mirror, that’s who.

So this week’s New York Times check was the Greenville Avenue Church of Christ, a mainly black church in Dallas that announced a series of special sermons for the summer on "dangerous isms," including Judaism, Islamism and alcoholism. First thought the minute I saw the story: “Oh, that’s got to be in the Times already.”

Yup. It picked up the barebones Associated Press story immediately. Now I have to sit back and wait to see if it pays Mimi Swartz to drive up from Austin and do the real in-depth hit job on us.

I always thought my old drinking buddy, the late columnist Molly Ivins, was so clever for figuring out that Dallas was the town whose very existence New York would never tire of regretting. And often for good reason. Ivins pulled down some good bucks with that schtick.

Read more: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-pastor-links-judaism-alcoholism-says-he-meant-no-harm-10768895

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