Preston, my thanks for your reply. I might add to this that I frankly consider “my people” to include all the world’s many and diverse cultures and their chosen religion. I just finished a fantastic homestay at a Mongolian family farm, all Muslim, and as far as I am concerned, they are as much my family as my own. I am as at ease in a mosque as I am a temple or a church. That is why I find it so deeply invasive that people cannot respect other’s right to believe as they wish. But those are also “my people,” like family members who embarrass you. Because they do embarrass me.