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<H1><FONT size=3>Aaron and Visionaries:</FONT></H1>
<DIV>Perhaps Aaron understands the following excerpt from
<EM>Credenda Agenda</EM> differently than I do. In my opinion, a
close reading suggests that the head of household represents the
family internally (within the church) and externally in the
secular community. </DIV>
<H1><FONT size=3>"For example, when women were granted the right to vote, the
nation had already accepted the lie that a nation is nothing more than a
collection of individuals . And so the matter was framed this way men as
individuals can vote, so why cannot individual women do the same? We were so
muddled we thought we were giving the franchise to women when we were in fact
taking it away from families. ...How many churches reckon membership by
household? How many churches vote by household, with the head of each house
representing that family?"<BR>Doug Wilson: "</FONT><FONT size=3>Recovering the
Masculine mind", Volume 7, Issue 5: Thema</FONT>
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href="http://www.credenda.org/issues/7-5thema.php">http://www.credenda.org/issues/7-5thema.php</A></FONT></P></H1>
<H1><FONT size=3>I cling to the hope that I misunderstand the meaning of Doug's
remarks. Aaron, could you clarify this issue? Do the wives of Christ
Church and Trinity Reformed vote on matters within those faith
communities? Do the wives of Christ Church and Trinity Reformed vote in
civic elections - and if so, is it the policy of the church (and their
husbands) that wife vote in tandem with their husbands? Perhaps a
better way to phrase the question would be, is a wife expected to be in
submission to the political opinions of her husband?</FONT></H1>
<DIV>Thanks for the suggestion to read some poetry, Aaron. I was
immediately reminded of one of my favorite Robert Burns
poems. It is a saucy summary of my sentiments when I think
of the academic environment of NSA. </DIV>
<H2><FONT size=3>To A Louse<BR><BR></FONT><FONT size=3><EM>On Seeing One on a
Lady's Bonnet at Church<BR>by Robert Burns.</EM> </FONT></H2></DIV>
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<H2><FONT size=3>Ha! whare ye gaun' ye crowlin ferlie?<BR>Your impudence
protects you sairly;<BR>I canna say but ye strunt rarely<BR>Owre gauze and
lace,<BR>Tho faith! I fear ye dine but sparely<BR>On sic a place.<BR><BR>Ye
ugly, creepin, blastit wonner,<BR>Detested, shunn'd by saunt an sinner,<BR>How
daur ye set your fit upon her--<BR>Sae fine a lady!<BR>Gae somewhere else and
seek your dinner<BR>On some poor body.<BR><BR>Swith! in some beggar's hauffet
squattle;<BR>There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle;<BR>Wi' ither kindred,
jumping cattle;<BR>In shoals and nations;<BR>Whare horn nor bane ne'er daur
unsettle<BR>Your thick plantations.<BR><BR>Now haud you there! ye're out o'
sight,<BR>Below the fatt'rils, snug an tight,<BR>Na, faith ye yet! ye'll no be
right,<BR>Till ye've got on it--<BR>The vera tapmost, tow'rin height<BR>O'
Miss's bonnet.<BR><BR>My sooth! right bauld ye set your nose out,<BR>As plump an
grey as onie grozet:<BR>O for some rank, mercurial rozet,<BR>Or fell, red
smeddum,<BR>I'd gie you sic a hearty dose o't,<BR>Wad dress your
droddum!<BR><BR>I wad na been surpris'd to spy<BR>You on an auld wife's flainen
toy<BR>Or aiblins some bit duddie boy,<BR>On's wyliecoat;<BR>But Miss's fine
Lunardi! fye!<BR>How daur ye do't?<BR><BR>O Jeany, dinna toss your head,<BR>An
set your beauties a' abread!<BR>Ye little ken what cursed speed<BR>The blastie's
makin!<BR>Thae winks an finger-ends, I dread,<BR>Are notice takin!<BR><BR>O wad
some Power the giftie gie us<BR>To see oursels as ithers see us!<BR>It wad frae
monie a blunder free us<BR>An foolish notion:<BR>What airs in dress an gait wad
lea'es us,<BR>An ev'n devotion!</FONT></H2></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Georgia FAMILY="SERIF" PTSIZE="12">Rose
Huskey</FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
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FAMILY="SERIF" PTSIZE="12">Who speaks for the chickens, people?
Who?</FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
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