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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>I
just finished reading Jane Smiley’s review of <i><a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/republican-gomorrah_b_290293.html"
title=Permalink><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Republican
Gomorrah</span></a> by </i>Max Blumenthal.<span style='display:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Read more at: <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/republican-gomorrah_b_290293.html"
target="_blank_">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/republican-gomorrah_b_290293.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h1><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";font-weight:
normal'> <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/republican-gomorrah_b_290293.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/republican-gomorrah_b_290293.html</a>.
This book is an examination of the right wing, Evangelical lunatics who enjoy
powerful positions in this county. The following is a short selection from
the review.<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>“Republican
Gomorrah is a frightening book because it is clear to all of us on the outside
that the various Republican operatives who surround James Dobson and his ilk
have no consciences and will stop at nothing. They invoke the name of God for
purposes that shame God absolutely--hurting, destroying, maiming, and damning
others who either don't accept their beliefs or don't acknowledge their power
and righteousness. Of course that is frightening. But Blumenthal's
cast of characters, beginning with Dobson and his prodigal son, Ryan, and
including John Hagee, Sarah Palin, Ralph Reed, Charles Colson, Judith Reisman,
Christina Regnery, Donald Wildmon, et al. strike the reader as above all else
very small--egocentric, narrow minded, uneducated, selfish, and resentful. Each
of these qualities is destructive in and of itself. The combination is turning
out to be coercive. Even those of us who are immune to the emotions these
people play upon are getting more and more nervous about the power that they
wish to exert. . . And power plays are the key to right wing
psychology. Right wing psychology is the other thing that Blumenthal has to
offer. At the periphery of this world is your run-of-the-mill bully, a man like
Jack Abramoff, whose brutality is well remembered by his high school
classmates, but who sang like a bird once he was caught. At the center of is
James Dobson, a much more destructive figure than Abramoff, who advocates, in
the strongest terms, child beating, and not only child-beating, but
dog-beating. At one point he brags about going after the family canine (who
weighed twelve pounds) and engaging in "the most vicious fight ever staged
between man and beast." As for children, the goal is to keep beating the
child until "he wants(s) to crumple on the breast of his parent." In
other words, Dobson is a proud sadist who thinks sadism is kind of funny, and
who, over the years, has successfully advocated sadism as the only workable
form of child-rearing.<span style='display:none'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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Read more at: <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/republican-gomorrah_b_290293.html"
target="_blank_">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/republican-gomorrah_b_290293.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Please read
this review and then trot down to BookPeople and place your order. And, in
case you believe that in little old Moscow, Idaho we are immune to Dodson-like
loonies, I invite you to read “Spanking Stories” by Doug Wilson, in
the April 2005 edition of Credenda Agenda. <a
href="http://www.credenda.org/issues/16-2childer.php">http://www.credenda.org/issues/16-2childer.php</a>
which includes the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>“Children
who are not corrected and spanked when they need it know that their parents are
actually exhibiting a hatred of them (Prov. 13:24). This is what Scripture
teaches, and so we may safely assert it. But having done so, we are also
invited to <i>taste </i>the godly fruit of obedience in this. The Scriptures
are not true in a vacuum; they speak the truth to us, about us, and concerning
us. Whenever we obey, trusting God for the blessing, the results are what the
Bible promises to glad obedience. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>And
this is why it is such a great delight to listen to spanking stories. They are
overwhelmingly characterized by joy, kindness, delight and affection. It would
be wonderful for someone to collect and publish them.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Rose Huskey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:black;display:none'><br>
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Read more at: <a
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/republican-gomorrah_b_290293.html"
target="_blank_">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/republican-gomorrah_b_290293.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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