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Almost everyone has seen what goes on in a Catholic, Methodist or any other mainline church.
If you were brought up in the South, chances are you visited to a Baptist church or two. But there was a long, long time until probably the 1980s that the Pentecostals Assembly of God were thought of, even in the South, as 'the weird ones.'
There is a reason. When I was a child, an aunt took me to one of these churches a few times. I remember people speaking in tongues, and making movements on the floor. Looking back on it, some of those were definitely sexual in nature. I suppose those people were just gettin' close to Jesus.
As a child, it was scary. As an adult, I think back and see this religion as just crazy. I am not offended by all religions, even though I disagree with these "We are the only ones who goes to heaven" types. It is a cult psychology to keep the worshipers in.
If you continue to go out of tradition to a church or a true belief that Chrisitianity to build a better life for those around you, then go for it. But don't govern the rest of us by religion. And the Alaska governor has given every indication she plans on doing exactly that.
