A public relations pro in Salt Lake City once assumed I was a Mormon because I have a strange beard and kept waving away the waitress with the coffee pot. The other day, the Tennessee Association of Churches informed me that it wants to salute me for my writing. But I also want to make the following comment, since I'm sure that some in this group had, yes, planned to ask where I worship. I propose a moratorium on asking journalists the church question. There isn't a really good answer to the church question.
Few people love traitors.
It may not help to say you attend another church. If you decline to answer, this also makes some people mad. This says, in effect, that the interviewee has to open up his or her soul, but interviewer does not. And it doesn't work to say that it doesn't matter which church you go to, or whether you believe anything at all, because you are a professional journalist and, thus, you'll be fair to everyone. This causes believers to roll their eyes, because the news media have a history of botching religion stories.