Most of what you've said has already been responded to, but I wanted to say that yes, the trial was held in Tennessee. If you will recall, I used the phrase "US Deep South", of which Mississippi
and Tennessee are integral parts. The two states share a border. This area is my home and I know it well.
I would also say that yes, my percentage was rhetorical (or hyperbole, which may be more to the point).
As was already pointed out, most any opinion or prejudice can find biblical sanction. Shakespeare said (I believe it was in
The Merchant of Venice) that "The devil can cite scripture to his purpose", and the devil's white southern followers demonstrated the point admirably during the civil rights struggle. They did (and still do) the same when they used the bible to fight against tolerance and enlightenment.
This is why I made the point that I don't know what fundamentalists are like in your part of the world. You call yourself a "fundie", but judging from the tone of your rhetoric and some of the things you've said I would say that you are quite a bit more intelligent than most US southern fundamentalists. I think I am probably a better judge of the fundamentalists who live here, and I would say that they, like those who lived in Dayton, Tennessee in the 1920s, are (largely but not entirely) uneducated, unenlightened and in no way practiced at the art of thinking for themselves. They allow their preachers/priests/pastors, etc. to do their thinking for them. They never question anything they were reared to believe UNLESS change is forced upon them, as it was in the civil rights revolution.