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William Thornton wrote:She endorsed Trump.
William Thornton wrote:She endorsed Trump.
Sandy wrote:William Thornton wrote:She endorsed Trump.
Yes, she did. I'd like to read the book to find out how she reasoned it out. She had to have abandoned almost everything for which she advocated previously in order to do so, an act that was evidenced by the anger and infighting it produced on the board of Eagle Forum, and the literal splitting up of her organization, and departure of many of her former political allies and friends, including her own daughter. It was ugly.
And she wasn't an "ally" in the conservative resurgence. While she may have shared in some of the conservative political views, she was a Catholic.
William Thornton wrote:Sandy specializes in explaining what others have to do and that without going to the trouble of reading what they say.
Stephen Fox wrote:Her being a Catholic is like Pressler saying he was a Democrat. A Ruse.
Sandy wrote:It might be news to you, Stephen, but the conservative resurgence/alleged "takeover" of the SBC is not the central event of American politics, religion, or human history.
Stephen Fox wrote:are still writing about the aftershocks and refining the history.
Princton's Robert Wuthnow in Rough Country and Randall Balmer in recent political pilgrimage bio of President Carter.
I'll continue to follow that conversation while you and Sandy engage in your petty dismissals.
Otherwise the best.
Oh and just in the last two months Anatomy of a Schism adds a feminist perspective to the Takeover; and Trey Gowdy is very real and Al Mohler's eruption of Billy Graham and his role in the Takeover was within this last year.
As Elvis said to Dick Nixon, Mr President you run your show and I'll run mine.
In meantime fun checkin in with you and Sandy when necessity merits.
Hope Thornton reads my blog on Slapout Alabama and the circumstances I left Gaffney SC.
Timothy Bonney wrote:Write whatever you like Stephen. It certainly doesn't bother me. (As long as you don't find a way to connect the Methodists to the SBC Takeover that is.)
Mrs Haruo wrote:I just remember the mother of one of my clients when I was doing in home care for severely disabled children got all excited about the "Eagle Forum" . She showed me a newsletter written by Mrs. S, an she had some very nasty things to say about women in the military, and it was pretty obvious she had no idea what she was talking about. Being a female veteran myself, what she had to say did not go over well with me and I filed her newsletter under "too likely to upset my finches to use as bird cage lining".Being a good wife and mother is a high calling, I have been there and done that. Now let me get back to my power tools and a stack of boards. I have a fence to repair and if that is a subversive activity for a woman--- too bad.
Sandy wrote:Give him enough time, and start exploring his connections of this person to that person. I'll bet there's someone in that list who has a third cousin who once pastored a Methodist church that participated in something with an SBC church down the street that had a member that was related to someone who belonged to a megachurch of which the pastor was part of the SBC takeover. That makes them complicit.
Timothy Bonney wrote:Sandy wrote:Give him enough time, and start exploring his connections of this person to that person. I'll bet there's someone in that list who has a third cousin who once pastored a Methodist church that participated in something with an SBC church down the street that had a member that was related to someone who belonged to a megachurch of which the pastor was part of the SBC takeover. That makes them complicit.
He doesn't even have to go that far. I'm a Methodist and I once heard Page Patterson preach at MBTS. Boom, right in the takeover crowd.
Sandy wrote:Well, that's a direct link. Have you ever attended a Billy Graham crusade, or watched one on TV? That;s a double whammy, and may the Lord help you if you ever visited FBC Spartanburg.
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