This is just nuts. It’s ignorant, malicious, one-dimensional crackpottery, ideological hysteria of the sort one never expects from Wendell Berry. It is not remotely serious, and it is not remotely persuasive. Rather, it’s Grampa Simpson standing on the liberal lawn, shouting talking points he read in a Franky Schaeffer essay on HuffPo. It makes Andrew Sullivan in his more emotional moments sound as balanced and avuncular as Alistair Cooke. What a damn shame.
via theamericanconservative.com
SEE ALSO
"Wendell Berry Backs Gay Marriage" (Rod Dreher, 7.16.2012)
"More Berry Vs. Traditional Christians Reax" (Rod Dreher)"
"Wendell Berry's Rabbit is Now a Squirrel" (Rod Dreher)
"Wendell Berry's Halcyon Bean Patch" (Douglas Wilson)
"Wendell Berry's Epic Slanderfest ..." (Timothy Dalrymple)
"Wendell Berry on Cold-Hearted Christians and Homosexual Marriage" (David Mills)
"Wendell Berry and the Marriage Conversation" (Emily Stimpson)
"Reading Wendell Berry on Marriage" (Jake Meador)
"The Unveiling of Wendell Berry" (Est Quod Est)
"Wendell Berry's Marriage Reversal" (Christopher C. Roberts)
I thought Rod's response was just as much one of dismay toward Berry's broadside against conservative Christians on the other side of the issue. Berry doesn't like condemnation by category, but does it himself.
Posted by: Pilgrim | 01/17/2013 at 07:51 AM