Yes, I am. You just need a (confident+media whore):(intelligent+media savvy) ratio higher than 1.>> ^hpqp:

@messenger
Are you seriously suggesting that there might've been smarter people than this willing to defend pastor Worley on this point? I think any member of his congregation with a quarter of a functioning brain would've fled the news cameras no matter how much they agreed with the homophobic pastor. Even our resident fundies have refused to comment , while other believers have only given it an honorary downvote.
edit: apart from bobknight's "y u so mean?" defense of course.

@messenger

Are you seriously suggesting that there might've been smarter people than this willing to defend pastor Worley on this point? I think any member of his congregation with a quarter of a functioning brain would've fled the news cameras no matter how much they agreed with the homophobic pastor. Even our resident fundies have refused to comment*, while other believers have only given it an honorary downvote.

*edit: apart from bobknight's "y u so mean?" defense of course.

Yep. That's about it. The pastor probably couldn't be reached for comment, or didn't have the potential to be quits as iconic as this woman. For an news-tainment network pandering to the masses with limited capacity for independent critical thought, I think this interview was the right choice. If it had been NPR or the CBC, I would've been disappointed.>> ^hpqp:

Of course, it's not pastor Worley's statements that are stupid and homophobic beyond belief, it is just that the evil manipulators at CNN trawled through all the intelligent and ethical defenders of the pastor's stance to find the one pearl who would misrepresent him and his ideas the most. Nothing to do with the content of what she's defending, nuh-uh.
_{edit: reworded to give the pastor's congregation the benefit of the doubt}>> ^messenger:
She was probably hand-picked for her stupidity and accent so Cooper could humiliate her and make her the poster child for homophobes. This is CNN, remember, not an actual news organization.>> ^bobknight33:
What a poor interview. This should have been with someone who had the intellectual capability to have this discussion. Where was the Pastor, Deacon or such who could have properly defended, justified the statements from the sermon.

If she was to represent any one else on any other topic she would have been just as bad.

She was railroaded for the pleasure of CNN and its audience.
That's not news that abuse.