{"id":17186,"date":"2013-08-22T09:42:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T13:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=17186"},"modified":"2013-08-22T02:45:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T06:45:41","slug":"50-shades-of-the-gospel-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2013\/08\/22\/50-shades-of-the-gospel-coalition\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Shades of The ‘Gospel Coalition’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cCrazy Jane Talks With The Gospel Coalition<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

I met Thabiti\u00a0Anyabwile
\nAnd much said he and I.
\n\u2018Those breasts are flat and fallen now,
\nThose veins must soon be dry;
\nLive in a heavenly mansion,
\nNot in some foul sty.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Fair and foul are near of kin,
\nAnd fair needs foul,\u2019 I cried.
\n\u2018My friends are gone, but that\u2019s a truth
\nNor grave nor bed denied,
\nLearned in bodily lowliness
\nAnd in the heart\u2019s pride.<\/p>\n

\u2018A woman can be proud and stiff
\nWhen on love intent;
\nBut Love has pitched his mansion in
\nThe place of excrement;
\nFor nothing can be sole or whole
\nThat has not been rent.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apart from the first line, that\u2019s actually \u201cCrazy Jane Talks With the Bishop,\u201d by W.B. Yeats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bishop\u201d in Yeats\u2019 poem felt an almost physical revulsion at the idea of sex or of women or of bodies. He finds all those things icky<\/em>. And he assumes that anything he finds icky must be wicked.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The Rev. Thabiti Anyabwile. (Photo courtesy of HotCalvinistDirtyTalk.com.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That same puckered revulsion is the basis of Thabiti\u00a0Anyabwile\u2019s entire argument against gay people<\/a>. He imagines what gays and lesbians may do together in private, savoring every lurid detail. And then he suggests that other people\u2019s private acts are somehow more shameful than his public fascination with other people\u2019s private acts.<\/p>\n

Reciprocity calls for a response to Anyabwile\u2019s\u00a0post in which someone describes his<\/em> sex life in the same kind of detached, contextless graphic detail he attempts in his description of gay sex. Such a description would, of course, prompt an ick-response from anyone who read it (probably including Anyabwile himself, and certainly including\u00a0Mrs.<\/em>\u00a0Anyabwile). It would, at least, if it were as clumsily body-phobic as Anyabwile\u2019s\u00a0own attempt to write about other people\u2019s sex \u2014 which reads like excerpts from the World\u2019s Most Awkward Sexter.<\/p>\n

Anyabwile\u2019s third-rate attempt at writing porn isn\u2019t repulsive because of the acts he attempts \u2014 and fails \u2014 to describe (or to spell<\/em>).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s repulsive because he\u2019s a creepy, creepy, creepy<\/em> voyeur. Thabiti Anyabwile is a peeper, a trench-coated figure lurking in the hedges outside other people\u2019s windows.<\/p>\n

His insistence that he staunchly disapproves<\/em> of the private behavior he can\u2019t keep himself from ogling only makes him more<\/em> creepy, not less.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they\u2019re doing in there is just wrong<\/em>,\u201d he mutters, straining to peek between the blinds. \u201cI\u2019ve been watching them from right here in the bushes for months now, and what they\u2019re doing with one another is just disgusting<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man needs help. Until he gets it, warn the children to avoid this creepy, creepy man.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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