I can also point out from experience, having grown up the son of a Southern Baptist pastor in Mississippi during the civil rights/desegregation/voting rights movement of the 1960′s, the SBC HATES when pastors or members “make them look bad” by saying in PUBLIC forums the things that they were taught behind closed doors at church. Our church, and most if not all SBC’s, taught IN CHURCH that blacks were cursed to be subservient to whites and that god wanted the races to be segregated but members would get very upset when a member said so to the NATIONAL press. My whole family had a very different policy on race and racism in public than they did among friends, family and fellow church members.

I think we see the same phenomenon surrounding people’s views on gays and homophobia and that’s why we have such a Bradley effect every time marriage equality is polled.