One of the things about lots of Christians liberals that drives me crazy is that they don’t even attempt to understand those who think differently. They caricature them, ridicule them, misrepresent them, but never, ever try to grasp the way they think or what they believe. Today’s example: Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, UCC seminary president and Washington Post “On Faith” columnist, who wrote regarding conservative evangelical vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin:
“Wives be subject to your husbands, as unto the Lord.” So says the Christian scriptures in Ephesians, 5:22. What I would like to know, first of all, is who is going to have the final authority as Vice-President if Sarah Palin is elected, Palin or her husband? In fact, I think the first order of business with Palin is to ask her to give the same kind of speech that was demanded of John F. Kennedy re his Catholicism. Kennedy said he would obey the Constitution over the Pope. Will Palin obey the Constitution over her husband?
I can’t help but think that anyone who could write something so dense has got to be doing it intentionally so as to score partisan points. The answer to this paragraph is one any Sunday School teacher, much less seminary president, would know: the home is not the same as the vice presidency. Why is that so hard for Thistlethwaite and so many like her to understand?
Maybe it’s because they just don’t want to.
The Reformed Pastor 
September 3, 2008 at 6:53 pm
The idiocy that I have seen in the media regarding Palin has truly boggled my mind. It’s unfortunate and hopefully people will be able to see through it.
September 4, 2008 at 8:03 am
Funny how that Scripture applies to Palin but not to Susan herself. Wonder how Susan’s husband feels about that passage? Because it looks like she is usurping his authority quite a bit.
September 4, 2008 at 10:09 am
Nailed it David. The false choices, straw men tactic does drive one nuts. And I agree– it has to be intentional. The narrowness of of the bigotry displayed is chilling. Pure hubris.
September 4, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Matt,
Fear not.
The public is far more savvy than the mainstream media believes them to be. Here is a snippet from a Rasmussen Poll released this morning.
“”The findings, nevertheless, are troublesome for the embattled news industry and parallel what voters said in surveys earlier this summer. Sixty-eight percent (68%) of voters now believe most reporters try to help the candidate they want to win, and 49% believe reporters are trying to help Obama this year. Only 14% think they are trying to help McCain. “”””
September 6, 2008 at 3:02 pm
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