Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> >I'm reminded of a scene in "The West Wing" in which President Bartlet
> >thunderously queries an extreme right-wing commentator about all the other
> >laws in
> >Leviticus that she DOESN'T espouse along with her supposedly Biblically-based
> >condemnation of homosexuality.
> >
> >Tom Beck
>
> I want to throw my little disclaimer out here: I don't believe in
> anything*, I don't go to church, I'd even say religion is a "bad thing" in
> a lot of people's lives. But that episode of the west wing was plain silly.
> Bartlet's whole speech could have came from any number of editorial writers
> who were ranting about (a certain female radio host) views at the time. And
> I'd imagine in a number of households the viewers were cheering the scene
> as if it was the women herself being put down on national TV, something
> they all wanted to do.
>
> I was surprised they didn't try the same thing a few weeks later on a large
> middle aged man wearing a nice suit with a loud tie, smoking a cigar.
>
> I'm not going to use the word all here, because there probably is some
> fundamentalist in this world who takes all of the bible to heart including
> wearing non-blended fabric (amish?). But just because a person has some
> guiding principle, it doesn't mean they have to be bound to every single
> tenet that is laid before them. And I'm showing my ignorance here, maybe
> homosexuality is the only item in Leviticus** that she follows (but I
> seriously doubt that's they way it is, or was). I just feel the writers of
> the show were grandstanding about something they felt wasn't getting enough
> coverage.
I think she takes some of those dietary laws seriously. Something about
hearing her moan about not getting to eat shrimp anymore when I'm
waiting for the local news blurb on that station....
Julia
don't get me started on her attitude of "women stuff" and "men stuff";
there's NO EXCUSE for not understanding some basic things about a car if
you DRIVE one...
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