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I'm a responsible man raised by a single mom. What of it? The problem? Men have been shirking their responsibilities. The solution? Men should stop shirking their responsibilities. I thought that my example said that fairly clearly. Maybe it didn't.

I'd hardly call a prescription based entirely on the various adaptations and repackagings of a Josh McDowell sermon from the 1970s, responsible. I have great respect for Christianity and those that practice it, but not when those practitioners subordinate the manifestly obvious to quasi-Scriptural formulae on par with the "name it, and claim it" nostrums of the recent past.

It is, of course, your choice to entertain "magical thinking" fairytales that men bear responsibility for our erroding moral position. But in the face of an identifiable "feminine" mindset where men have no more political "pull" than women, and demonstrably fewer mechanisms for enforcing their wishes, I'd say you are guilty of the same myopia Ezekiel preached against when he gave a word against those who blamed their troubles on "the sins of the father's being visited on the children."

Women in this country are free moral agents, not the subordinates of past social hierarchies. As such, blamining men for our current society is like blaming horses for our current traffic problems.

Women in this country are free moral agents, not the subordinates of past social hierarchies. As such, blamining men for our current society is like blaming horses for our current traffic problems.

I know at least one woman who is not a "free moral agent". In marriage, as in most other relationships, there is a leader. Perhaps I do entertain "magical thinking" - but it's no accident that my wife isn't among those that fill the NOW meetings, attend the Million Mom March, "protest" in the streets, or who works on her "career". She's got a family to raise.

Society, political pull, "mechanisms for enforcing their wishes"...all of these things have been the responsibility of men - and they are for men to uphold or irresponsibly neglect - not for women to choose as men sit limply by and shrug their shoulders.

I have great respect for Christianity and those that practice it, but not when those practitioners subordinate the manifestly obvious to quasi-Scriptural formulae on par with the "name it, and claim it" nostrums of the recent past.

That's where we part ideas. To not subordinate to "quasi-Scriptural formulae" is to be a damned fake. It's served me well and will continue to. I'm not sure why you felt such a need to rant at me for what you obviously think is absurd - but that's all I've to say about this subject.