[blam]

"As one intimately familiar with the Orthodox Jewish practice of donning tefillin (phylacteries) during morning prayers, I absolutely agree with your comment."

Thank you.

I'm very educated and a world traveller but have never heard of this procedure. It is ignorance on my part but does not make anyone an idiot.

It is the bad manners and the immediate rough discourse that I found troubling with TexasGreg's comment, frankly, very unTexan like.

[lbryce]

I appreciate your reply. I don't mean to patronize you but I believe that even the term ignorance is too harsh a term under the circumstances.

That you have never been exposed to to the sort of ritual that is none-too-widely practiced does not make someone ignorant.