Beyond that ...
you've got to get out more
That's my point. I 'get out' a whole lot more than most folks, and I'm just not running across the freakshows the way I would expect.
Maybe I'm just lucky. Or maybe my Guardian Angel has things in hand ... or the Holy Spirit just doesn't want to expose me to that sort of thing.
Dunno ... but for whatever reason I'm definitely freakshow-deprived and it's not for lack of opportunity.
LOL! That's it. I think I'm going to sign on with your Guardian Angel, because mine let me move to a hotbed of heresy...
I came here from NYC, where you could find flakes, but also very orthodox people. I finally found an orthodox priest here in High Springs, about 20 miles north. His ordination was held up because he was not gay, btw - he attended the Florida Pink Palace (aka, seminary), and Sister Vocations Director told him that his attitude toward gay seminarians (he didn't like them) revealed that he was "excessively rigid."
He's a great priest, and has a very orthodox - heck, saintly - retired priest who helps him. But he has had to fight every step of the way. The good thing is that his parish is growing by leaps and bounds as people flee other parishes, while Fr. Orgasm has to depend on the regular crop of freshmen every year to stay in business.