This, from a Yahoo News article on some evangelicals’ Quixotic attempt to convert uninterested New Englanders:
They say a reason for the region’s hollowed-out faith is a pervasive theology that departs from traditional Biblical interpretation on issues such as the divinity of Jesus, the exclusivity of Christianity as a path to salvation and homosexuality.
If there were ever an argument for the serial comma, this is it. I’m pretty sure there are other paths to homosexuality besides Christianity.
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Agreed on both accounts
The funny wrong meaning would be stronger if you had “Jesus comma and”. But yes, the Harvard comma is designed to avoid precisely this kind of ambiguity. I’ll forward this to Quinion’s World Wide Words, I think.
Given the number of christian ministers publicly culpable of homosexual affairs, and the incredible number of closeted christian married men, I would say that the missing (I prefer Oxford) comma is the tidiest Freudian slip I have seen in quite a while.
@Fnortner: LOL!
Oxford/Harvard/serial: I’ll stick with “serial comma.” Don’t want to play favorites.