Meet Mr. and Mrs. None

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By Steve Rabey, Religion correspondent - • Published: May 10, 2013 | 10:05 am

'PLEASE, JESUS, PROTECT ME FROM YOUR FOLLOWERS! ' is more than a simple bumper sticker slogan for Colorado Springs couple Becky Hale and Gary Betchan.

The phrase also adorns T-shirts, caps, buttons and jewelry and is among the 4,500 products sold by EvolveFISH.com, their online emporium that ships 16,000 orders each year to godless Americans who can't live without Isaac Newton bobble head dolls, T-shirts supporting gay rights or Coexist bumper stickers promoting religious dialogue. The company, next to Hope Chapel on North Academy Boulevard, is named after the EvolveFISH emblem, which ridicules a popular Christian fish symbol.

Betchan and Hale say they never would have met if it weren't for locals seeking to impose conservative Christian values on the city.

'The religious crazies brought us together, ' said Betchan, who in 1988 wanted to see the controversial movie 'The Last Temptation of Christ ' at Poor Richard's Bookstore. But the local church that rented the space to the bookstore prohibited the screening of the film, so Betchan watched it at All Souls Unitarian Church, which volunteered to screen it.

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1. Someone explain to me why that quote, so often attributed to Gandhi, ignores

that the chap who poured three bullets into him was a Hindu. Is the idea that Gandhi's exhortation was answered, but only protecting him from adherents to a certain creed (and that a relatively uncommon one in India)?

Inquisitive minds want to know.

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2. Well, if he said it, he said it before he was killed.

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3. Wisely said, but still and all Gandhi seems a little partial in that story.

Didn't see it coming, perhaps. Tho after so many assassination attempts, one ought to begin to suspect.

Perhaps it's like so many Einstein quotes, just a convenient prop for a remark.