A RABBI, A PRIEST AND TWO WOMEN PREACHERS WALK INTO A CAMPAIGN RALLY...

An AP article unwittingly tells us why John Kerry has a hard time going religious:

For the Rev. David Keyes, it was a moment of grass-roots poetry.

Keyes is the Kerry-Edwards election campaign's new (and first) religious outreach coordinator for Missouri, and on Monday afternoon he sat at a table at the campaign's St. Louis storefront headquarters in a Shrewsbury strip mall with six religious leaders, lay and ordained.

Keyes walked them through the sequence of speakers for an interfaith "prayer potluck" rally that night in Brentwood.

But in his zeal to include speakers of varying calibrations of faiths, denominations, genders, races and ages, Keyes had overlooked one of the most visible: Protestant women.*

"Give me a minute," said Rabbi Jeffrey Stiffman, recently retired from Congregation Shaare Emeth, as he whipped out his cell phone and began dialing. The Rev. Bill Hutchison, a retired Roman Catholic priest, borrowed a cell phone and did the same. In no time, the group had two Protestant women lined up to speak.

And that's how liberals approach religion.

*One always wishes to remember the great Samuel Johnson's words regarding this:"Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."