Consider this cocktail:

Take a controversial pastor, a Republican businessman and county conservatives. Shake it all together.

What you get is a whole lot of e-mails swirling around.

The county NAACP chapter will host the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr. on Nov. 20, at its annual Freedom Fund Banquet in Glen Burnie. The selection prompted an outpouring of complaints from Republican public and political figures.

"I'm disappointed that a racially decisive figure like Jeremiah Wright would be honored as the keynote speaker," said Del. Nic Kipke, R-Pasadena.

"I think that there are much better...