Recently I was reading a newspaper exposé about Phyllis Schlafly’s son, who has been quietly living a gay life for years. I was thinking back on the GOP convention, when the Republicans showcased Schlafly as their spokesperson for their strident and ultraconservative family values position.
This was unadulterated hypocrisy, considering that in the very moment of her eloquent highmindedness, she was secretly well aware of the deviance from traditional family values that had evolved out of her own personal family structure.
While I was reading this expose, I got a call from my daughter at college. She was preparing a speech for her Christian Ethics course, in which she had received a midterm warning. Ironically, her subject was Christianity and homosexuality, and she was at a loss for an approach.