Forbid Them Not, pp. 180-195<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nThis week, Cooper heads into D.C. to meet with Randall Wasson of the Washington Star<\/em>. Several readers have asked why Randall doesn\u2019t meet with Cooper somewhere other than his office, if he doesn\u2019t want anyone to see him with Cooper. I\u2019m not sure, but Randall did tell Cooper that the Star<\/em> offices would be empty at 8am, because of the publishing schedule, and no one would see them.<\/p>\nPersonally, I\u2019m wondering why Farris gave us characters named Randall and Randolph, in the same book.<\/p>\n
Cooper is driving to the Star<\/em> office.<\/p>\nHe clicked the radio on to WTOP, the all-news channel. it was a mild distraction until he heard Suskins\u2019 voice on the radio. He had watched all the clips of the news he could stand. Listening to another story on the radio was out of the question. He hit the button for the Christian station. Preaching. Not now. He hit the switch for his aunt\u2019s favorite oldies station. Love gone bad. He told to car to just shut up and drive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Cooper\u2019s mind is full. He keeps rerunning his arguments at the hearing, and he cries out at God for not making sure he knew about Laura\u2019s engagement before<\/em> the hearing. Cooper has a lot on his mind\u2014and that\u2019s understandable. This isn\u2019t:<\/p>\nCooper closed his eyes for a split second and then sighed heavily.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Don\u2019t crash your car, Cooper.<\/p>\n
Cooper realizes that he\u2019s mad at God\u2014not at Suskins or at the voters. He feels that it\u2019s all \u201cGod\u2019s fault\u201d because God could have \u201coverridden\u201d the voters but he didn\u2019t. God, he concluded, had abandoned both him (i.e. Cooper) and America. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to help me, God,\u201d he prays. \u201cI can\u2019t carry this alone.\u201d Since this is a Farris novel, we all know Cooper won\u2019t be this jaded long.<\/p>\n
After engaging in some small talk\u2014mostly about coffee\u2014Cooper and Randall sit down to talk.<\/p>\n
Wasson was about five feet six, with salt-and-pepper hair and a trim beard. He wore a black cashmere camel hair sports jacket, grey tweed pants, a button-down oxford white shirt, and a dark red tie patterned with charcoal-colored diamonds. His demeanor seemed energetic and friendly, not rushed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m finding it odd that Randall gets last-name treatment given that, as we\u2019re about to find out, he\u2019s one of the good guys. Are we meant to take it as a sign that he may ultimately be more complicated?<\/p>\n
Randall asks Cooper what he thought of the Star<\/em>\u2018s coverage of the hearing.<\/p>\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t bad. In fact, it was probably one of the better articles your paper has done on the case,\u201d Cooper replied, as he sank down in one of the saddle-colored stuffed leather chairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s (sic) sounds like you haven\u2019t been particularly pleased with our coverage up until this point.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell,\u201d Cooper said, wanting to be diplomatically truthful, \u201cI haven\u2019t felt that the Star<\/em> was the most favorable paper on the issue. In fact, the editorials have been harsh at times.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cHarsh? I wouldn\u2019t call them harsh,\u201d Wasson replied. \u201c\u2018Disgusting\u2019 is the word I would use.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDisgusting?\u201d Cooper replied incredulously. \u201cWhy would you say that about your own paper?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAh, Mr. Stone, as you are about to learn, I may own a piece of the Washington Star,<\/em> but I am not enamored with our positioning. Its editorial stance leans too far to the left for my taste.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nRandall explains that the Wassons had run the Washington Star<\/em> for three generations, and that his parents expected him and his brother to do the same, following in their footsteps and mold, but that while at Princeton he \u201cmanaged to fall in with some bad company from my family\u2019s perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cA friend of mine was part of Campus Crusade for Christ, and next thing any of them knew, their son who had been raised in a strong secularist tradition was suddenly a born-again Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWow,\u201d Cooper replied. \u201cAnd I take it your family was not too pleased.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly. Oh, they put a brave face on it. And they tried their best to find ways to dissuade me from using the family fortune to advance opinions they find tone anathema, but they have not been particularly successful in keeping me out of the family business altogether. For reasons that no one seems to understand, including me, I have been pretty successful in giving advice and direction to a variety of ventures and have been more or less tolerated for my religious views because they like the money they think I bring in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Randall tells Cooper that \u201cGod has chosen to bless me in giving me good ideas and a clear head, so that there is a witness to my family,\u201d and that \u201cGod has used me as a life lesson to my family to demonstrate that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.\u201d That must be sure comfort to Christians who live in poverty or otherwise struggle to make ends meet.<\/p>\n
Cooper tells Randall that his is \u201cone of the most interesting stories I have heard in years,\u201d and all I can think is, Randall\u2019s story is a dime a dozen. Conservative evangelical Christianity is replete with wealthy businessmen who use their money to advance conservative causes.<\/p>\n
Randall says he would like to give up to $250,000 to the case, but only if no one knows about it. The first check, for $100,000, will have to come from his lawyer in Asheville, and will not have Randall\u2019s name anywhere on it. All further funding will come through the lawyer. If the media learns that Randall is funding the case, he will pull out and end all further funding.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am trying my best to gain influence here at the Star<\/em> on more than just the business end of things. And if I am seen as a conservative ideologue, my brother will do everything he can to exclude me completely. I want to win the battle on a lot of fronts, so it is important to me that I be able to do this anonymously. You can\u2019t tell anybody where the money came from.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI\u2019m not clear on how the\u00a0Star\u00a0<\/em>is currently being run. Who has editorial control? Or is there another form of control? Are Randall and his brother co-owners, but his brother is still secular (and presumably liberal)?<\/p>\nThis whole situation seems odd to me because we live in a world where wealthy conservative businessmen don\u2019t generally feel shy about funding conservative causes\u2014a world where conservative businessmen control large media companies and shape the news for tens of millions of people. The secrecy here\u2014the hiding\u2014feels off. That\u2019s not the world we live in.<\/p>\n
It makes me curious\u2014is this a product of the evangelical persecution complex Farris clearly buys into, or is was the world really this different in the early 2000s? Have wealthy conservative businessmen become more bold in the past two decades than they were in the 1990s? I don\u2019t feel fully qualified to answer that question, but I\u2019m more than a little bit skeptical.<\/p>\n
Actually, I take that back. I will<\/em> take a stab at that question. The Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation were founded in the 1970s. Conservative businessmen have long funded conservative causes. Evangelicals were doing the exact same thing in the 1980s and 1990s (and there was a lot of overlap between the two). This isn\u2019t something new or novel.<\/p>\nCooper says he\u2019s ethically required to tell his clients who is funding the case. Randall says that\u2019s ok, but that they have to be sworn to secrecy too.<\/p>\n
Randall tells Cooper not to thank him:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is God\u2019s money, and I just try to follow orders on how to spend it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That\u2019s all very pat and everything.<\/p>\n
Cooper and Randall pray together (Randall puts his hands on Cooper\u2019s shoulders) before Cooper leaves, his mind much more at ease.<\/p>\n
I am annoyed by how the issue of funding is treated in this book. Very annoyed. This case would be funded to the hilt<\/em> by conservative evangelical legal and activist group from the get-go. The case in Farris\u2019 previous book was at least local, and didn\u2019t appear to have national significance until the very end. That is not the case here. This case is very clearly a test case for the entire treaty, and affects the entire country.<\/p>\nThe only reason for having funding be such an iffy proposition that I can think of is Farris\u2019 interest in making this the story of an underdog. Nobody expects anything of Cooper. He\u2019s a small town lawyer! Who\u2019s even going to fund the case? He\u2019s driving a beat-up old car for crying out loud! But look! God is looking out for him! He manages to secure funding, miraculously, and precariously enough that he keeps some tension in the plot.<\/p>\n
This is not the world we live in. It\u2019s just not. Conservatives like to think they\u2019re the underdog, but they haven\u2019t been for a long time.<\/p>\n
Scene change!<\/p>\n
Remember how Peter said he was going to New York City for a conference, and that he was planning to take Gwen with him and to see some Broadway shows with her (edit: they left the kids at home), and asked Cooper to meet them while they were there? Well, we\u2019re there! Cooper meets Peter and Gwen at the Tavern on the Green.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat have you been doing while Peter has been at his conference?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur youngest is three, Cooper. A mother of a three-year-old sleeps whenever she has a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd does just enough shopping to keep New York merchants from becoming destitute,\u201d [Peter added].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I. Um. Ok.<\/p>\n
Look, I\u2019ave had a three-year-old, and there\u2019s no way I would have spent a trip to New York City sleeping. Peter\u2019s rejoinder suggests that Gwen\u2019s comment is perhaps meant as a joke\u2014but to what purpose?<\/p>\n
And really? Shopping? Not sight seeing? Not checking out an art museum, or whatever else there is to see in New York City? (I suspect I\u2019m letting the fact that I\u2019ve never been to New York City show.) I really dislike how Farris writes women. They\u2019re living stereotypes. Gwen is a mom, and when she has free time she shops, and that\u2019s all we need to know about her.<\/p>\n
Boring smaltalk is boring.<\/p>\n
Boring recap of the case is boring.<\/p>\n
Gwen asks Cooper what the case will mean for her family, and other families, if the treaty remains in place. Cooper offers this answer:<\/p>\n
\u201cNo home schooling for people like you and me not committed to their ideas of tolerance. No spanking\u2014well, that is gone already. Your children will have the ability to access whatever information they want and parents will be unable to stop them. Our ability to share our faith will be left in shambles. We can teach that Jesus is one way to God, but if we teach that he is the<\/em> way, the<\/em> truth, and the<\/em> life and that no man\u2014or woman, got to be inclusive and tolerant\u2014comes to the Father but by him, we are toast.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nLet\u2019s be clear about something\u2014the article which gives children freedom of importation, Article 13, specifically says this freedom can be limited to protect \u201cpublic health or morals.\u201d I\u2019ve seen individuals like Farris claim that the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child gives children the right to view pornography (which I think is being alluded to here). This is not true.<\/p>\n
Cooper expresses his sense of inadequacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cJames Madison was about your age when he shepherded the Constitution through the convention in Philadelphia,\u201d Gwen said.<\/p>\n
Cooper looked at her with raised eyebrows and a smile. \u201cVery impressive, Mrs. Barron.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Shock, surprise\u2014a woman knew something!<\/p>\n
\u201cHome school moms know things like that,\u201d Peter replied, giving his wife an extra hug. \u201cI just bring her along to show off because my lawyer friends don\u2019t know as much about American history, the Constitution, and the law as she does. She really can be the life of the party until she starts lecturing the lawyers on some of her favorite founders.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, stop it,\u201d Gwen said, nudging her husband playfully.<\/p>\n
Peter looked into Gwen\u2019s eyes just as she did that, and a moment of strong magical emotions passed between them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh my god, can Farris be<\/em> more patronizing?<\/p>\nI\u2019ll tell you something about homeschool moms\u2014and for reference, we\u2019re talking about the sort of homeschool moms Farris<\/em> knows\u2014homeschool moms often do<\/em> know a lot about the American Revolution and the founding fathers, but they just as often known nothing about the civil rights movement.<\/p>\nIn this corner of the homeschool world, the American Revolution and the Constitutional Convention looms so large that it consumes all else. And just so we\u2019re clear\u2014what these homeschool moms know about the American Revolution tends to also be selective, and more hagiographical than historical.<\/p>\n
But seriously\u2014that interchange between Peter and Gwen\u2014and Peter\u2019s statement that he only brings her along to impress his lawyer friends\u2014seriously, just stop<\/em> already. It\u2019s patronizing as all get-out.<\/p>\nUgh, Gwen. You used to be a nurse.<\/p>\n
Cooper\u2019s response, of course, is to feel jealous of what Peter has, because he\u2019s single and would prefer to not be.<\/p>\n
Things get weird when Cooper heads back to the hotel room he booked for the evening.<\/p>\n
He turned the corner and saw a beautiful woman appearing to have trouble with the key but definitely trying to get into his room. He had an instant thought that she was a mirage, but a quick re-examination revealed that she was having trouble getting into the room next door to his. As he walked closer, not only did she look more beautiful in her short, glittering evening dress, but he thought she looked familiar. He suddenly realized that he knew her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It\u2019s Jody, of course.<\/p>\n
Jody says she stays at this hotel often, when in the city with her work with the U.N. Cooper gentlemanly helps her open the door. Jody chides him for calling her \u201cAmbassador Easler.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c[W]henever we are alone, please just call me Jody.\u201d<\/p>\n
A surge of adrenaline sent shivers throughout his body and a knot into his stomach. Her hair was perfect. Her face was gorgeous. And her body, in that dress\u2014he stopped himself at that. The spiritual and legal mess that she represented wasn\u2019t worth it.<\/p>\n
The door clicked open on his fourth or fifth try. \u201cOh, you did it,\u201d she exclaimed, with glee. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to have to traipse down and get a bellman to come up here. Thank you so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
She pressed hard up against his body and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. Suddenly he began to wonder if the spiritual and legal mess that she represented might be worth the risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cWould you like to come in for a moment? I mean, if you are alone, that is.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Oh boy.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the thing\u2014it\u2019s not actually that hard to say no to this. All you have to do is say no<\/em>. Just say no and walk away. Farris mentions the spiritual consequences of any dalliance, but the real issue here is that she\u2019s on the opposing side of a lawsuit he\u2019s arguing<\/em>. Just say no, and walk away.<\/p>\nHe doesn\u2019t, of course. Oh, he does say no! But he doesn\u2019t walk away. Instead, he responds to her flirting in turn. She reaches out and touches his cheek. She entreats him to come in, just for a little bit, she\u2019s lonely<\/em>.<\/p>\n\u201cI can\u2019t stand the idea of another movie in another hotel room all by myself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u00a0Walk away.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nBut he doesn\u2019t walk away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got an alternative suggestion,\u201d he said, while every muscle, every tendon in his body seemed to be shaking. \u201cWhy don\u2019t we go for a ride in one of those horse-drawn hansom cabs? I have always wanted to do that, but I never had anyone to do it with. I can\u2019t come into your room, Jody\u2014that\u2019s just not me. But come for a ride in the park with.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
That\u2019s right\u2014Cooper invited Jody to go with him on a romantic<\/del> horse-drawn carriage ride. Of his own volition. When he could have just said \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I have some work to do for a client tonight and need some rest,\u201d and walked away, no harm no foul.<\/p>\nJody isn\u2019t just on the other side of this lawsuit. She\u2019s an (ambiguously) important ambassador who played a key role in getting the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child ratified by the Senate. She\u2019s Cooper\u2019s ideological enemy. And she\u2019s flirting with him and coming onto him. He ought to be asking why<\/em>. She\u2019s gorgeous, and presumably has the pick of the litter. Why is she so intent on him?<\/em>\u00a0He\u2019s the one defending child beating and trying to destroy her life\u2019s work. It doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/em><\/p>\nPerhaps Cooper has bought into Farris\u2019s flowery descriptions of him\u2014is it possible that Cooper is so sure of his position as a catch that he doesn\u2019t blink or think twice at Jody throwing herself at him, as odd as it is?<\/p>\n
I just can\u2019t with this sub-plot.<\/p>\n
Oh and by the way, when they get into the horse-drawn cab Cooper realizes that Jody isn\u2019t wearing a jacket and, out of concern that she might be cold, he offers her his\u2014even though she hadn\u2019t even mentioned being cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cWould you like my jacket?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, Cooper, just put your arm around my shoulders. I would like that a lot better,\u201d she replied, with a voice as sweet as any he had ever heard.<\/p>\n
He felt he had no choice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What in the blazes?<\/p>\n
Jody does not hold any position of power over him. Yes, she\u2019s flirting with him, but all he has to do is turn her down and walk away. She\u2019s not his boss. He\u2019s not dependent on her for getting contracts or being cast in a movie. She\u2019s not physically intimidating him or making any threats.<\/p>\n
He has a choice.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nAll he has to do is say \u201cI\u2019m sorry, this was a bad idea, we\u2019re on opposite sides of an important lawsuit and I\u2019d like to keep our relationship professional. I\u2019m going back to my room to turn in for the night, but I\u2019ve already paid for the cab ride, feel free to stay and enjoy the rest of the ride.\u201d<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t say that.<\/p>\n
He put his arm around her \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Cooper!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\u2026 and as he did she turned and kissed him passionately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What\u2014<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t break away \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u2014ARE YOU\u2014<\/p>\n
\u2026 at least not until it was too late to prevent the photographer sequestered on the fourth floor from getting at least six good shots of the kiss with his high-tech camera, outfitted with full capability for shots taken in the dark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Doing?!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nSo much for him having good sense!<\/p>\n
There were no more kisses that evening, but Cooper could hardly sleep knowing who and what was available next door.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
God, Cooper!<\/em> Switch to another hotel if you have to, you\u2019re being paid, you have money now! Stay far away from Jody, you may not know what game she\u2019s playing, but by now it should be clear that she\u2019s playing a game<\/em>.<\/p>\nAnd that\u2019s the end of the chapter.<\/p>\n
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