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To: KLP who wrote (154203)	1/9/2006 8:27:11 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793900

Seems to me that saying some are "evangelicals" IS stereotyping No, it's labeling. Stereotyping would be inferring that Bush is uneducated because evangelicals are perceived as uneducated. To say he is a Christian is a label, and that is fine. Many people are. Many Christians are also Lutherans, evangelicals, charismatics, and/or Catholics. Those are labels for subsets of Christians. Saying that "Christian" is a label and "evangelical" is a stereotype makes about as much sense as saying "cat" is a label and "tabby" is a stereotype. It's like saying that "American" is a label and "Texan" is a stereotype. It's like saying that woman is a label and wife is a stereotype. he hasn't said so himself That doesn't make any sense, either. Here's an example. I don't think I've ever seen you call yourself a Washingtonian. But I know that you live in or near Seattle and that you complain regularly about Washington politics, ergo you must be a Washingtonian. I don't have to wait for you to use that label for me to use it. Humans classify things and apply labels to the various classifications. It's an inherent part of human intelligence and essential to analysis. We have all living things categorized by kingdom, species, phylum, and the rest. This is elemental and essential. If it has wings and feathers, eats seeds, lays eggs, and flies, it's a bird. If a woman is wearing a wedding ring and you hear her friends referencing her husband, you can safely apply the label "wife" to her. Likewise you can safely label Bush as evangelical. He meets the criteria for evangelicals and other evangelicals recognize him as one of their own. Stereotyping is something else is making hackneyed judgments about individuals based on their membership in a group, such as Christians or wives. If you know someone is a wife, assuming that she does not have a successful career, that's stereotyping. Labeling her a wife is not.