Without meaning to imply anything whatsoever about the current political scene, I was intrigued by an article that Tom Perrotta — author of Little Children and The Abstinence Teacher, if you’re looking for a film angle — wrote for Slate recently on Sarah Palin and the “Sexy Puritan” archetype that she embodies. It reminded me of an article that appeared in The Door several years ago, on how, for hormonally driven Christian teenage males, Amy Grant once embodied the “Righteous Fox“. Note how the secular writer makes the righteousness the substantive term and the sexiness the qualifier, while the religious writer does the opposite.
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