“I am the equivalent of someone who was gay in Mississippi in 1950,”<p>Oh give me a F*ing break.  You CHOOSE to be a conservative.  You aren&#x27;t born a conservative and face true harassment, discrimination, and death threats because of it.  Oh, right thats what YOU would do to someone who is gay probably now if you could get away with it.<p>You are being passed for jobs in academia partly because academia deals in truths and evangelical Christians usually have a world view lacking in many truths.  Personally, yeah I would pass you for an academic job if I found out you were an evangelical christian.  How can I trust you to know truths in your profession when you believe in complete nonsense like the earth began 2,000 years ago and that evolution doesn&#x27;t exist.  How can I trust you NOT to evangelize in the classroom? Isn&#x27;t that the whole point of being an evangelical Christian?<p>Get over it. Religious extremism in ALL FORMS is a cancer and needs to be eliminated from society. Join the rest of the modern world or be further relegated to the edge as you so rightfully deserve to be.