{"id":898,"date":"2014-02-12T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/02\/in-the-lewinsky-redux-a-religious-message.html"},"modified":"2014-02-12T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T19:15:00","slug":"in-the-lewinsky-redux-a-religious-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/02\/in-the-lewinsky-redux-a-religious-message.html","title":{"rendered":"In the Lewinsky Redux, a Religious Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
Led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Republicans are reprising the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal, as an odd reaction to Democratic charges they are waging a war on women. The conservative\u00a0Washington Times<\/em>\u00a0sees it this way<\/a>:<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Kentucky Republican and likely 2016 presidential candidate is making a habit of ripping former President\u00a0Bill Clinton<\/a>, dubbing the 42nd president a \u201csexual predator\u201d and suggesting that it is hypocritical of Democrats to cast the\u00a0GOP<\/a>\u00a0as anti-women when they celebrate someone who preyed on women working under him in the workplace.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
At the Washington Monthly, Ed Kilgore\u00a0has a theory<\/a><<\/span><\/div>\n
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There is, however, a meta-message here that is worth thinking through. Many conservatives sincerely believe that abandonment of a stoutly patriarchal society has been a disaster for women: they\u2019ve lost the stability of \u201ctraditional marriage,\u201d the presumption men will be held accountable for their material welfare, the chivalric accommodation of their weaknesses, the ability to concentrate on child-rearing and home-making, and most of all, the exemption from the terrible burdens of bread-winning, decision-making, and sexual autonomy. In exchange they have obtained all sorts of empty tokens of independence\u2014some actively unnatural, like the \u201cright to kill their babies\u201d\u2014while men have been liberated to act out on their true nature as perpetual children and sexual predators.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
My theory is a bit different, and, like Kilgore\u2019s, requires forgetting for a moment that Rand Paul\u2019s favorite new-old thing is to go after the Clintons. That\u2019s so horse race! Think instead about the GOP\u2019s strategy to portray its own elected women as virtuous patriots who put family and Christianity first\u2014making them not just better exemplars of biblical womanhood, but better exemplars of political leadership.<\/span><\/div>\n
Read the rest here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Led by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Republicans are reprising the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal, as an odd reaction to Democratic charges they are waging a war on women. The conservative\u00a0Washington Times\u00a0sees it this way: The Kentucky Republican and likely 2016 presidential candidate is making a habit of ripping former President\u00a0Bill Clinton, dubbing the 42nd president […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nIn the Lewinsky Redux, a Religious Message<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Led by Sen. 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