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."
This is just fictional news.Another leftist lie. They hate Bush and they hate anything that makes either Bush look good. So they make up a lie.
QOUTE THE GREAT SGT. HULKA - "Lighten up, Eugene."
" God invented puberty so he must not have wanted us to take ourselves too seriously."
Got that right. And God gaves us smiles and laughter. If we never knew how to laugh we wouldn't be able to understand sorrow. All about balance. Balance is require in nature, humans are no different since we're just one part of nature.
It's only the Extremists from all walks of life that wish to control by way of manipulating our every thought.
The E in Extremists stands for Evil which craves inbalance and chaos.
Yawnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Amen, Dan, but with the exception of your #6. While I agree that much of her routine was funny, the Trash Culture references were rather cringeworthy ("Desperate Housewives," "Chippendales," "Dollar Bill" and "milking a male horse"). And, for the record, I am a guffaw-inducing, knee-slappin', habitually jolly "right-wing Christian"...;-}
Sorry we're keeping you up.
Oh don't apologize...I only yawn like that over boring and stupid things.
What bothered me was that little bit of free advertisement. I have such scorn for the entertainment establishment.
I, like you dad, ask that same question nightly as I scan through the 100 plus channels. Condensed to probably 5 watchable programs.
heh! very droll
I consider myself to be extremely conservative and pastor a Southern Baptist Church. I am not offended or dismayed in the least by her statements. I understood it as a simple joke and nothing else.
This also from the site:
"President Bush used a last-minute speech yesterday to blast the homosexual energy agenda, which he blamed for driving up prices at the pump. In the wide-ranging talk, Mr. Bush touched on such seemingly disparate topics as the excessive use of lighting in gay dance clubs, the misperception that the Toyota Prius is a 'gay' car, and the need to roll back regulations that are keeping the nuclear power industry tied up in knots."
Know what? You cast the first stone, I need mercy too much not to be merciful and I recall very avidly that the Jews accused Jesus of most of the things in those verses. In fact the Talmud teaches that Jesus was a bastard conceived during a menstrual period (which means He is cursed, too).
I don't figure I know anyone who can judge Laura Bush righteously because the Bible tells me that I (and in effect each other human) does not know his own heart therefore one is not fit to judge the heart of another.
You are welcome to fit this into whatever is required in your book but I have learned that what is forbidden/required of one is not necessarily forbidden/required of another.
You are entirely welcome to view it your way. I might wish she hadn't but for my part she is still whoever she was and she only really has to fear the Lord and please her husband.
Nowhere do I read that she has to please me or the Nation.
Ecc 3:1 To every [thing there is] a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
God is neither a scribe nor a Pharisee otherwise he should have done something other than reward Rahab and the Hebrew midwives for telling lies--as much Scripture as there is about lying; or David for eating the shewbread when hungry.
So I'm not the only one that has happened to...
Ummm-hmmmm.
Really, FRiend?
What about the admonition to preachers and elders, etc. about being held to a higher standard?
Is not Laura Bush a leader of this country (leading through example?)?
It's not a case of me "throwing the first stone" which you would have ascertained had you cared enough to read all of my posts on this thread.
You want to water down what is sin and what is not, be my guest. 'Pod.
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