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Published on: 5/18/2005
Last Visited: 8/20/2006
Looking up, I saw Linda Rhodes, Communications Director for the Northern Illinois Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.She was photographing me with a large camera, exclaiming, "You document everybody else, I'm going to document you!"
Not wishing to escalate things, I responded, "Okay, but I'm not all that photogenic."She replied, "That's true!"When I suggested that perhaps we had found a point of agreement, this woman who had never met me snapped back that it was likely our "only" point of agreement.As she checked her digital camera, I asked how the pictures turned out.She frowned and said, "You still look the same!"
A few weeks later, the official newsletter of the Northern Illinois Annual Conference carried a full-page editorial denouncing me, complete with a photo of my apparently menacing face.Rhodes complained about how "this blatant enemy of everything Bishop Sprague has stood for throughout his ministry ‘crashed' this final farewell for the Bishop's friends and family."
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Sadly, the responses of Rhodes and Winkler seem to be typical of how "progressive" church officials and activists respond to IRD.