Well, those neanderthal, Bible-banging Southern whites wouldn't like him, but I'm sure the Black Southerners he loves so much would welcome him with open arms--what with their long history of rigorous left wing intellectualism, gay marriage, sermons based on Origin of the Species, and all.
John Shelby Spong has not forgotten the worst bits of his North Carolina upbringing, as his comments about his African brethren indicate:
"They've moved out of animism into a very superstitious kind of Christianity. They've yet to face the intellectual revolution of Copernicus and Einstein that we've had to face in the developing world; that is just not on their radar screen."
"If they feel patronized that's too bad. I'm not going to cease to be a 20th century person for fear of offending somebody in the Third World."