We should not ignore charges of Hypocripsy.
Posted by DLW in Uncategorized at 1:27 am | 
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Just read the recent editorial by Frank Rich. I have to say I wish the religious right played a smarter game. Because I do not like having children so easily exposed to brazen heterosexual promiscuity in the media. But at least we’ll be have the president pushing for an amendment to protect the sanctity of marriage from them homosexuals undermining our moral values.
dlw
ps, I just read Kristof’s take on the Left Behind series. Inasmuch as premillenialism was a theological innovation that reflected the pessimism in the wake of the civil war over our ability to establish the millenium through political activism, I find it offensive for LaHaye and Jenkins to assert their art as being literally what the Bible teaches. Last I heard, the doctrinal debate over exclusivism vs inclusivism was still ongoing among Christians. And we are all still accountable for our public actions and how they lower or raise up barriers to our ability to share about our faith with others.
dlw
The 29th of November, 2004 at 12:05 pm
I read the Frank Rich column. Limbaugh mentioned it on his program today in his discussion of the Nicollette Sheridan commercial. Interestingly, he did not address any of the points Rich made specifically about his (Limbaugh’s) take on the incident. Limbaugh did not even officially discuss an incident he claimed to be “stunned” by until two days after the commercial aired.
Anyway, it is fascinating to me that, as Rich points out, for a country supposedly so morally full of itself, “Desperate Hosuewives” is the most popular show on TV. I only watched it the first night, myself, and did not find much of interest. It is very sex-obsessed. I’m not offended by that, but I wish the show had something more to offer than a soap opera kind of obsession with scandal.