Cynical Heretic

Anyone who reads my blog knows that I'm a bit of a liberal. (I'll wait while you recover from your hearty laugh.) Okay, I'll admit it . . . I'm a wet the bed, yellow bellied liberal. And proud to be so.

Also, you may have noticed a bit of a feminist . . . yeah, I heard you snort. So, what I'm about to say isn't really how I feel . . . but I'm playing a bit of devils' advocate. Don't take my liberal feminist card away from me.

Okay . . . my understanding is . . . being that I'm not a church goer, not a parent, and again with that liberal feminist vibe thing . . . that there is a notion with some, if not many, conservative christians that the highest and best use for women is being stay at home, home-schooling, highly involved with church activities outside the home, moms. (Again, the disclaimer . . . I know that being a working out of the home or working in the home parent is a highly individual choice and not really only an expression of religious or political views . . . but you have to admit . . . there is that subset of the population that does fit that description.) These are the same people who are likely to tsk tsk and blame the mother if a child does something outside the conservative christian viewpoint.

Bloggers and pundits have said that VP nominee Sarah Palin is their dream girl. She's a girl. She's a former beauty queen who knows something about sports. She is a life time member of the NRA. She is a conservative christian. She adds youth . . . and girl parts to the GOP ticket.

So, why aren't more conservative christians jumping up and down on the fact that she is a mother with young children . . . including an infant who has special needs . . . and she now has announced that her teen aged, unmarried daughter is pregnant. It would seem to me that we have here a situation ripe for all sorts of conservative christian judgement and tsk tsking, no?