I honestly do not understand this response. This is a gesture that is not done anywhere else in my lifetime. It has one meaning and only one in the culture I am in and that is Sieg Heil. Maybe other churches do something similar. Maybe in the distant past Catholics did something similar. And it is not how you raise hands in school. We raised them straight in the air and could not prop up our elbows or wave them. There are some sports incidents using this gesture and they are taken to task I believe. I am astounded that after all the years of sensitivity training and political correctness, which I am never accused of, that almost everyone thinks this is nothing. mg