He is confusing spiritually immature legalists with conservative Christians.
"Isn't THAT special???"
Posted on 05/02/2005 8:23:14 AM PDT by areafiftyone
First Lady Laura Bush may have stolen the show with her surprise comedy routine at this weekend's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, but her jokes and one-liners have made her no new friends among conservative Christians. In an official statement, one 'pro-family' advocacy group warned that Mrs. Bush's jokes at the President's expense were in violation of the Biblical command that wives respect their husbands.
Some shocked by Mrs. Bush's reference to herself as a "desperate housewife"
WASHINGTON, DC—The First Lady may have stolen the show with her surprise comedy routine at the 91st White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, but not everyone appreciated her jokes and one-liners poking fun at President Bush. At least one organization of conservative Christians quickly lashed out at Mrs. Bush's performance, warning that her remarks at the President's expense were a public refutation of the Biblical command that wives should respect their husbands.
According to an official statement released over the weekend by the Coalition for Traditional Values, an organization that seeks a more flexible relationship between church and state, Mrs. Bush's jokes at her husband's expense amounted to a public emasculation of the President. Pastor Roy DeLong, the statement's author and chair of the group, warns that the First Lady's performance comes at a time when the Mr. Bush's "manliness is already under attack."
Laura: Meet Ephesians
As a believer, President Bush is no doubt familiar with the passage from Ephesians that says 'Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord,'" says Mr. DeLong. "That means that just as Christ is the head of the church, the husband is the head of the wife. That is not the
Mrs. Bush interrupted a speech being given by her husband at the annual dinner, remarking that "I have a few things I want to say for a change." She then proceeded to mock his performance, both public ("if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you're going to have to stay up later") and private, noting that by nine o'clock, Mr. Bush, whom she referred to as "Mr. Excitement," is typically sound asleep.
"One of the Proverbs says that 'a virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that maketh him ashamed is as rottenness in his bones," notes Mr. DeLong. "I bet President Bush is feeling pretty rotten today."
Manliness in question
The rebuke to the First Lady's stand-up act comes on the heels of mounting concern about the President's image. Last week, Mr. Bush was seen holding hands with Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Then the President raised eyebrows anew when he asked a crowd of supporters in Galveston, TX if they celebrated Splash Day, an annual gay pride event in that state, best known for attracting tens of thousands of buff men, wearing little more than suntan oil.
Even some members of Mr. Bush's famously loyal party looked askance at his recommendation during a speech on the nation's energy needs last week, when he encouraged Americans to consider driving hybrid vehicles, widely believed to be 'gay' cars.
Depraved housewives?
While the Coalition for Traditional Values was the first conservative advocacy group to jump on the First Lady's comments, more criticism is expected. In her remarks, Mrs. Bush likened herself to a desperate housewife, a reference to the hit show on ABC, noting that she watches the show with Lynne Cheney, wife of the Vice President.
"Desperate Housewives" has come under heavy fire from pro-family groups, including the American Decency Association, which has called for a boycott of ABC for airing the "degraded" show. Last fall, Mrs. Cheney asked the federal government to step in to protect the nation's children from the "Desperate Housewives."
Here's a link to one of their letters to Bush chastising him for how his daughter dress.
http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/coalition_letter.pdf
So called liberals do profess to be very free regarding sexual mores. But IMO there is a very strong current of sexual repression running through political correctness, parallel to the same on the Right. I think "liberals," in their haste to support anything leftist, overlook this.
ONE RESPONSE NEEDED HERE!
"MATTHEW 7"
GODSPEED!
Pro 17:22 A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Pro 15:15 All the days of the afflicted [are] evil: but he that is of a merry heart [hath] a continual feast.
I don't think you are being paranoid.
I laugh, I cried, I enjoyed the event. The liberals can not laugh at themselves.
He is confusing spiritually immature legalists with conservative Christians.
"Isn't THAT special???"
Ronald Reagan loved dirty jokes; get over yourselves.
I thought she was great!
You were soooooooooooooo right to put the "Barf Alert" in the title. :-)
I agree, these people need to lighten up. It gives the real enemys of freedom and conservative Christians ammunition. The media paints us all with a broad brush.
That was exactly the quote that came to my mind over all this hand-wringing. Great minds think alike.
Me too. People are making WAY too much out of this.
I just read that the Swift News site is a satire site, similar to the Onion and Scrappleface, so yes it was a joke and so was the article. No wonder it was silly.
I thought she was hilarious. People forget that the entire purpose of that particular dinner is to be as outrageously insulting and preposterous as possible.
Regards, Ivan
Exactly I guess that the name comes from Jonathan Swift who wrote A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels.
http://art-bin.com/art/omodest.html
http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/contents.html
Swift is considered by some to be the father of modern satire.
See #131...the Swift Report is a satire site. It is all fake.
I agree - IT WAS A JOKE - NOBODY CAN TAKE A JOKE ANYMORE ..??
Besides .. if you really know the First Family .. you would know everything she said was a joke.
Okay, they expressed their opinion. My opinion is the jokes were just fine.
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