I've given the Promise Keepers allot of thought. I've watched as right-wingers, many of which PK members themselves blast NOW for speaking against the PK's policies, but praising the PK for their speaking out against abortion and such and such. It's really hard to listen to people say, "They're just getting together and meeting, what's wrong with that? You're just pissed becuase it's a sign religious conservatism is popular!" and not respond. So something has to be said.
So the gathering has come and passed, and I'm trying to figure out just what it meant. They came, they sang, they played their "Let's pretend we're characters from the Bible" game, they expressed political opinions (Anybody who actually believes that the PK has nothing to do with politics needs to wake the hell up) and they disbanded back out into the real world, out to make a difference or something!
You'd think after this adreniline boost of religious inspiration, they'd be all over the place making the world a better place. Right? Right?
Well, not exactly.
The Promise Keepers have quieted back down and we haven't heard much more about a religious revolution any more than we heard about a black revolution after Wacky Farrakhan's Million Man March.
My best geuss about the gathering was that it, like the Million Man March, was a blow off of steam. A one time thing to help people feel good about themselves. Let's face it, the "problems" they were confronting weren't really problems, they weren't really out to DO much, they were just out to celebrate their faith and complain about things in the world they didn't like. Fine. One problem though. If you're going to let PK complain, don't complain when NOW complains about the PK's way of doing bussiness. They have every bit as much of a right to have their opinions adressed as the PK and any conservative who has the gall to say otherwise deserves to a bonk on the head with an ahnk. :)
Sinistral, 1997
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