In addressing the Ted Haggard situation, Mark Driscoll makes some good points.
And one very bad one.
Here's the bad one. (The team in this case is all pastors.)
"At the risk of being even more widely despised than I currently am, I will lean over the plate and take one for the team on this. It is not uncommon to meet pastors’ wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness."
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is your arguement on that one that it's something that should have not been said because it is rude and unnecessary in it's context or because he is wrong?
My opinion is that he could have left that quote out and still had a very strong quality statement about the situation.
Sorry for the confusion.
My problem was with the quote which I put in my post.
I gave the link to the entire statement,though, not just the bad part.
And, to be fair, he did make a vague sort of non-apology statement later when people suggested he was blaming Mrs. Haggard (who in my opinion had "not let herself go," but even if she had wouldn't that come under the worse part of for better or for worse!)
I read this statement last week, and that was the exact quote that stood out to me as well. How many of these "lazy" women who have let themselves go have given birth to children and raised them? That statement really made me mad and actually hurt me a little as a Christian woman. Everything else he said was good, but that was terrible.
As we speak, I am sitting here with a little life growing inside, I am 30 and my hips are aching, my belly is already huge, and I am thinking fondly of hour long workouts at the Y with my friend and my yoga class where I was becoming as elastic as a rubber band. Being pregnant and having little ones though is something that isn't exactly conducive to keeping a Vicky's Secret body (although many do... grrr..) and I hardly think we should blame women at all for their husbands' infidelity.
I liked Mark's take on the Haggard situation though I'm not sure him calling pastor's wives fat helped his case any.
Of course when you are as fine looking of a specimen as Mark Driscoll is maybe you can get away with that sort of thing?
Also, what did he mean about the part that pastors are trapped into fidelity?
Aren't all married people "trapped" into fidelity? Isn't that what you promise when you get married?
And, how would you like to be the wife of a pastor who knew Mark D.? Wouldn't it make you think, "Am I the one who he is talking about?" And, furthermore, why is Mark D. looking at other women and judging whether or not they have let themselves go? And, what do you suppose his definition of "letting yourself go" is?
Just having some fun.
I guess it could just be a lesson in the we all say stupid things category.
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