Political Analysis: And the Moral Is, Don’t Forgive.

A recent poll has shown that a majority of men (more than 80% of Republicans and half the married men) won’t vote for Hillary Clinton for president.

“The poll found that 36% of women wouldn’t vote for Clinton, compared with 50% of men. . . . “

Why?

“Top reasons: They don’t like her, her husband or her views. Retired professor Charles Bilbrey of Harrisonburg, Va., 65, a GOP-leaning moderate, calls Clinton “abrasive.“

Some women oppose her also.

“My biggest reason is she put up with her husband” after his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, says Republican Betty Muse, 77, a retired nutrition director in New London, N.C.”

So what does this mean?

Men like things the way they are; read, let’s elect another (white) man, not a pushy woman.

Guys, women have been “pushy” for years. That’s how we get things done.  She’s running for a political office; read, men’s rules.  This isn’t a woman’s convention at the church, where all that meek stuff is encouraged (by men), especially husbands).

Just yesterday, I read about about a mother, tired of being put on hold by her (male) doctor’s office, who took her son, sick for days while she patiently called, into the lobby and said, she wanted “to see the doctor NOW.” Call her pushy if you like, but the child had pneumonia. The “pushy” woman was right.

Most people agree our country needs change, so why not change it?

And as for women, despite the moral talk, don’t forgive.

Now I know nothing about Betty Muse, but I’ve heard this before. And from Christians no less. Forgiven, ought we not to forgive? And when we see it done, what do we do? How many proclaim what a fine example of forgiveness Hillary gave the nation? No, it has to be something else. Something ugly and sordid, After all, she’s “pushy.” If readers oppose Hillary Clinton, I hope they have better reasons than why they “think” she forgave her husband of adultery.  Shame on the women.  We may have “come a long way, baby” but we’ve got a way to go!

See article on USA Today.

 

The Communion of Saints by Henri Nouwen

We often limit the Church to the organisation of people who identify themselves clearly as its members. But the Church as all people belonging to Christ, as that body of witnesses who reveal the living Christ, reaches far beyond the boundaries of any human institution. As Jesus himself said: The Spirit “blows where it pleases” (John 3:8). The Spirit of Jesus can touch hearts wherever it wants; it is not restrained by any human limits.

There is a communion of saints witnessing to the risen Christ that reaches to the far ends of the world and even farther. It embraces people from long ago and far away. It is that immense community of men and women who through words and deeds have proclaimed and are proclaiming the Lordship of Jesus.