Forbid Them Not, pp. 374-397<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nLaura is upset. She watched the\u00a0Politics and Hollywood\u00a0<\/em>segment, and it upset her. She watched it at her parents\u2019 home, in Florida. That didn\u2019t help.<\/p>\nIt had been hard to see them sitting next to each other. She had died a thousand deaths when Jody Easler told the world that she had tried to engage Cooper romantically, and had indeed managed to get him to kiss her. It was even harder to watch the obvious admiration that Cooper had expressed when Jody resigned from her ambassadorship. \u2026 Her parents expressed words of understanding for Coopers\u2019 actions although it was obvious that her father was a little perturbed over the scene.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Laura really should take some time before jumping into things with Cooper. She\u2019s fresh off her own long-term relationship, and there\u2019s all this with Cooper to deal with too. The fact that Laura doesn\u2019t seem to completely trust Cooper, too, is concerning. If she can\u2019t wait to be with him, perhaps she can wait a bit before getting engaged, and just date him?<\/p>\n
She spent a fitful night imagining Cooper and Jody in the same hotel, albeit on different floors. There was nothing in his words or his tone that gave her any objective reason for worry, but she concluded that objectivity wasn\u2019t the only way to look at a situation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So healthy, this relationship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nNothing in that night of fitful sleep and worry prepared her for the morning. There on the front page of the paper lying on her parents\u2019 doorstep was the photo of Cooper and Jody kissing in front of the New York hotel. Worse yet\u2014if it could be any worse\u2014CNN news kept running clips fo Easler\u2019s on-air resignation, punctuated with regular doses of the New York photo. The media spin\u2014fed by the backroom whispers of Kadar and her allies in the White House and Senate\u2014was that Easler had changed her political position because she had fallen hard for the handsome young lawyer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Wait. Kadar<\/em> has allies in the White House and Senate?<\/p>\nThe current chair of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child is Renate Winters of Austria. She serves as a member of the Appeals Chamber of the Special Court of Sierra Leone, an international criminal court tasked with making judgments on crimes committed in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s. Before this, she adjudicated war crimes in Kosovo, and before this, she was a judge at the Vienna Youth Court.<\/p>\n
The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child currently has four vice-chairmen:\u00a0Suzanne Aho Assouma of Togo, who previously served as Togo\u2019s Minister of Health, and is currently the Vice Mayor of the town council of Lom\u00e9, a city of 800,000 people; Olga A. Khazova of Russia, who is a professor of family law at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Clarence Nelson of Samoa, who serves on that nation\u2019s Supreme Court; and Jose Angel Rodriguez Reyes of Venezuela, is an advisor to the National Autonomous Institute Rights of Children and Adolescents in Venezuela.<\/p>\n
Farris has seriously inflated the influence, importance, and reach of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child. Its members are not typically people with significant connections or influence outside of their home countries (or outside of their areas of expertise). Furthermore, its members do not serve on the committee full time, typically retaining jobs and positions in their home countries. These are not people with serious international cache.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Laura even gets a call from Nancy, Cooper\u2019s secretary, asking her to tell Cooper, when she picks him up at the airport, that \u201ceighteen newspaper reporters, all four television networks, nine radio programs, and the\u00a0National Enquirer<\/em>\u201d all wanted interviews. Butting Laura in the middle of this, even as a message bearer, seems in bad taste. Nancy really had no other way to get this information to Cooper?<\/p>\nLaura spoke kindly to Nancy and promised to deliver the message, but what she really wanted was to be delivered from the enveloping horror of living inside a media romance scandal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Then, maybe, don\u2019t start dating a guy who is in the middle of a national sexual scandal? Just a thought! To her credit, at this point she starts to freak out and wonder if she made a mistake. Her parents drive to the airport with her in the back seat, to pick up Cooper. Guess who else shows up? Reporters, and lots of them! And television crews!<\/p>\n
When Cooper gets off the plane he\u2019s mobbed. He wards off the microphones, hightails it to Laura, and puts his arm around her. This is all captured on camera, of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, Mr. Stone, a girl in every port? Is this your mode of operation?\u201d the TV reporter said, with a smirk.<\/p>\n
Something inside sent a message to Cooper\u2019s right arm to smash the square jaw with a clenched fist. Fortunately, however, the desire to make a good impression on Laura\u2019s family was stronger. \u201cI have no idea what you are talking about,\u201d Cooper replied, his arm still around Laura\u2019s shoulder. The flashes continued to burst intermittently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Laura is being used as a prop. She was not asked, or given a choice. With no thought for her whatsoever, Cooper put her right in the middle of the very media circus that\u2019s making her so heartsick.<\/p>\n
As reporters pepper him with questions, Cooper finally responds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no romantic relationship between Ambassador Easler and me. She was assigned to create one, but I refused. That is what she said on national television last night, as I am sure you know. I am here in Tampa to meet the family of a young woman I intend to marry. There is nothing, I repeat nothing, going on between me and the ambassador. Do I make myself clear?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Cooper does not appear to have talked to Laura at all since the scene on\u00a0Politics and Hollywood.<\/em> He flew straight to Florida, where her family met him at the airport, assuming that nothing is changed. Now yes, Laura knew about what Cooper had done with Jody already. But, he wasn\u2019t in the middle of a media circus when she said yes to him.<\/p>\nAnyway, Cooper lets a few reporters follow him asking questions about the case as he walks to the baggage claim with Laura while her parents go to pull up the car.<\/p>\n
He tried to hold hands with Laura, but instead of warningly taking his hand, she seemed stiff and distant.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
YOU DON\u2019T SAY.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll right, just one more question, and I really hope you don\u2019t take offense at this. I am just trying to do my job. Can I ask who this young woman is at your side?\u201d<\/p>\n
She spoke very kindly and Cooper was inclined to answer her, but he wasn\u2019t about to do so without Laura\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n
WTF? He already announced that she\u2019s his fiance, and her face has been on the media enough times already\u2014including\u00a0Good Morning, America\u2014<\/em>that it\u2019s odd that the reporter even has to ask. And now<\/em> he realizes he should check with her?<\/p>\n\u201cWhat do you want to do?\u201d Cooper asked Laura.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to get out of here,\u201d she pleaded, looking at him with pain in her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOK.\u201d Cooper was so embarrassed that he had trouble looking directly at her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So observant. What a catch.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nAfter a further whispered exchange, Cooper convinces her that he should be allowed to introduce her to the press. So he does. He only says her name, and doesn\u2019t mention that she\u2019s also involved in the case\u2014and they somehow don\u2019t catch on. They do have time to smirk at his statement that they\u2019re not actually engaged, because they have to get her parents\u2019 permission first. Farris isn\u2019t big on the media.<\/p>\n
On the drive home, Ed Frasier, Laura\u2019s husband, asks if Cooper plays golf. And of course he does. He loves golf, he says! He\u2019s just not all that good at it. Points for humility and self-deprecation!<\/p>\n
\u201cLaura, your young man is off to a good start,\u201d [Ed] said, grinning at her in the rearview mirror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Cool.<\/em><\/p>\nEd was an avid golfer, and the fact that Terry hated to play golf was always a bit of a sore spot in that relationship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Double<\/em> cool.<\/p>\nLaura seems da little happier during dinner and the rest of the evening, but there ewes no real time for the two of them to be alone for longer than a few minutes at a time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is why insisting on constant chaperoning of courting couples gets in the way of a pair forming a solid relationship\u2014without alone time, they can\u2019t talk about a lot of things that actually matter. Like, in this case,\u00a0the deal with Jody.\u00a0<\/em>Without alone time, you\u2019re constantly performing for an audience. Like, in this case,\u00a0Laura\u2019s parents.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nAt this point the scene changes. Randolph Suskins is having a meeting with Erzabet Kadar in an \u201celegant office tower\u201d \u00a0overlooking the UN building in New York City. \u00a0Randolph tells Kadar that they are certain of four Supreme Court votes, but just as certain that four justices will vote against them, and that the remaining vote is unpredictable. In order to ensure their victory, they arrange to murder one of the court\u2019s four conservative justices, who is in poor health anyway.<\/p>\n
Yup, you read that right.<\/p>\n
This book has gone so far<\/em> off the deep end.<\/p>\nThe next day, Ed and Cooper go golfing. Ed says they\u2019re going to play a game: \u201con each tee I will ask you a difficult question that will determine my willingness to let you marry my daughter.\u201d I mean. Okay? I guess?<\/p>\n
\u201c[H]ere\u2019s your first question. What makes you think that Laura is the right one for you to marry?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201c[L]et me get the obvious things out of the way first. She is a Christian\u2014and that\u2019s essential. I think she\u2019s gorgeous\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo do I,\u201d interrupted her father. .<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has a good heart toward others and wants to serve. I\u2019ve watched how she has placed her own career at risk to help her friends Rick and Deanna. To tell you the truth, I first started falling for her when she came to help me with the paperwork for the case late one night.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I get that this is the very least issue out of all of this, but Cooper fell for her that very first night at Rick and Deanna\u2019s house. He spent the entire next day counting down to 5:30, when he could finally go by her place to pick up her notes from the Sunday school lesson again, because he wanted an excuse to see her again\u2014and to ask her out.<\/p>\n
So, what are Cooper\u2019s reasons for believing Laura is the right one for him to marry? There are three: she\u2019s a Christian; she\u2019s pleasing to look at; and she has a servant heart. None of this has anything at all to do with how the two of them interact, or whether they have similar life goals, or whether they like being around each other or enjoy doing the two things. That, of course, may be because Cooper has no way of knowing\u00a0any\u00a0<\/em>of those things, since he doesn\u2019t actually know Laura, at all. He\u2019s just after a cookie cutter Christian wife, and Laura meets the check boxes, so clearly she\u2019ll do.<\/p>\nCooper adds one final thing:<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when I am with her, I think I can be myself without any pretenses\u2014just who I really am. And she always seems transparent to me too\u2014well, almost always.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But has<\/em> Cooper been himself without any pretenses to her? He didn\u2019t tell Laura about Jody until after Kadar mailed the pictures to Rick and Deanna, and Deanna showed them to her. He also decided not to tell her that Terry was the source of the case\u2019s leaks. He\u2019s been lying to her in some fashion or another the entire time he\u2019s known her.<\/p>\nAs for the\u00a0almost\u00a0<\/em>always, Cooper admits that \u201csomething seems to be bothering her since I have been here, and I can\u2019t totally figure it out.\u201d That could, of course, be because\u00a0he hasn\u2019t actually\u00a0talked to her.\u00a0<\/i>He wasn\u2019t able to get her alone all the previous evening, because her parents were all over them, and well, this is a 7am tee time.<\/p>\n\u201cI think she is worried about that \u2018ambassador woman,\u2019 as she calls her,\u201d Ed said. \u2026 \u201cI guess I need to hear it straight from you. I want you to tell me straight up, man to man. Is there anything going on between you and that \u2026 that \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAmbassador woman?\u201d Cooper said, completing the phrase. \u201cThere is nothing at all sir.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And just like that, Ed believes him. Completely.<\/p>\n
A lot of lies are told on golf courses and regular golfers can usually tell. Ed Frasier knew that he had just been told the truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Cool talent!<\/p>\n
With that, Cooper is off the hot seat.<\/p>\n
Ed mixed the round with light conversation, along with serious questions about Cooper\u2019s faith, his relationship with his own parents, his finances, and his views of children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Hey! Ed now knows more about Cooper than Laura does!<\/p>\n
That\u2019s actually the end of the chapter, but I\u2019m going to keep going, because they\u2019re still in Florida, and that feels like the same subject\u2014and it\u2019s a short chapter.<\/p>\n
Cooper takes Laura out to a restaurant to talk to her alone. It takes a while for Cooper to get Laura to tell him what\u2019s bothering her. She says that when Cooper was on Politics and Hollywood<\/em>, Jody was making eyes at him. Really.<\/p>\n\u201cI know you love me, and, Cooper, I love you, too, so much this whole thing is killing me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we love each other, then I don\u2019t understand what is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want anyone else even thinking they are in love with you,\u201d she replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy is that so important to you? If I don\u2019t choose her, isn\u2019t that the end of the line? Who cares what she thinks?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want Terry Pipkin to still think he is in love with me? How would you feel if you saw me on television with him and he kept going me those goo-goo-eye stares she was giving you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Cooper caught his breath, suddenly realizing the impact that the events had on Laura. Just the name Terry Pipkin churned his stomach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
What, are these guys in middle school? Sure, exes can suck, but this is just a bit much .<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate it how the world\u2019s system of dating and romance works. All I want is to love only you, and you have said that you love only me. I wish there had been no other girls I had ever cared about romantically. And I really wish there had never been a Terry Pipkin in your life. \u2026 But we can\u2019t change our pasts, and we can\u2019t control the feelings of others. All we can do is focus on each other and keep everyone else out of our hearts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I\u2019m actually glad my husband dated before we got together, and I\u2019ve heard other people make the same statement about their own significant others. We learn through relationships, we grow and become better people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is so much pain from early and random romances. Can\u2019t you get the Senate to do a treaty banning that?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There is a serious lack fo emotional and relational maturity on display here. Now bear in mind that this was written by Michael Farris, a huge influence in the Christian homeschool community of my youth, and you can see how an entire generation of homeschooled evangelical youth ended up completely screwed over when it came to dating and romance.<\/p>\n
Two days have passed since the day of the tee and the restaurant, and Laura\u2019s dad takes her aside for a private chat. Cooper feels all awkward in the kitchen with Laura\u2019s mom, Bonnie, not knowing what Ed is saying to Laura.<\/p>\n
Laura\u2019s mom says things like this:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good thing I made salads for lunch Anything else would have gotten cold or stale by now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Finally, Laura enters the room, looking like she\u2019d been crying. But good crying! Ed has an announcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cCooper, Bonnie and I are very pleased to give you our permission and full blessing to marry Laura.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Laura, remember, is somewhere around 26 years old.<\/p>\n
They all set to talking and planning, and they decide on a December wedding date, so that Laura \u201d would only miss a week of teaching by having the honeymoon coincide with the school\u2019s Christmas vacation.\u201d Laura teaches at a public school. They don\u2019t call it \u201cChristmas vacation\u201d anymore. They call it \u201cwinter break.\u201d Anyway, Laura decides that while she isn\u2019t sure whether she\u2019ll teach in the future, she does at least need to finish out the year, because she signed a contract.<\/p>\n
Yep. Laura and Cooper are that<\/em> old school. Laura doesn\u2019t even get to have kids before she seriously considered giving up working, because, you know,\u00a0married.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nThere\u2019s a tacked on bit at the end of the chapter stating that, by late summer, people finally caught on to Cooper being \u201cinnocent\u201d in the whole affair with Jody, and Cooper started getting clients: \u201cenough to support himself and a frugal bride.\u201d He and Laura are finally actually dating, taking walks, going to concerts, and sitting under the starts and talking. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is deciding whether to take the case. Finally, they announce that the case is accepted.<\/p>\n
Just weeks later, one of the Supreme Court\u2019s conservative justices, while in the hospital for a routine checkup on his prostate cancer (which had been going well and was stable), had a stroke and died. We all know what this means.<\/p>\n
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