Look:

1. Creationists and religious fundamentalists (and the tea-potty) are harmful in everything they say, do, think, and teach. The basis of their "thought" process is that ignorance is better than knowledge. They will do as much harm (maybe more) in their "private" lives (like, for example, MLC denying her children a proper education) as in their public utterances and their destruction of knowledge an learning. How should I respect them, any more than a person who in private dons KKK robes?

2. I do however admit to one fundamentalist view. Whisky comes from Scotland. Any other spiritous liquor is not "Whisky" - although if it comes from Ireland it may be "Whiskey" which can be just as nice although different. Things from the American continent with rye in are NOT whisky.