Asheville is very liberal....at their convenience.
I lived there 2x's for 4 months each time while my ex was in his residency at Duke. We lived on the VA Hospital grounds while there.
The second time we were there, my son was a newborn (late '81). We had him christened there at the Episcopal Church in Biltmore Village. The priest would not accept that we were having a Jew as one of my son's godfathers....until quite a bit of money was exchanged. The priest shook everyone's hand after, except for the the Jewish godfather.
I didn't go back to church there.