My Life Should Be a Sitcom

[inimagiodei]

So the visit to friends was mostly good.  I think that John was more shocked then I was at how conservative our friends are.  I think he also got more of the brunt of it than I did.  The girls (there was a girls/guys breakfast) did not really talk about politics.  The guys, apparently, talked about nothing BUT politics.  However, when politics was

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[finding_helena]

We went to a wedding like that. The sermon had absolutely nothing to do with the bridal couple and was all about the role of Christ in marriage. (Though it did lay off the "Wives, submit" business.) The kicker? The minister was the groom's father. You'd think he could have given a slightly more personal sermon about his own son. Oy.

[inimagiodei]

I've been to weddings where I would describe the "theme" of the wedding not with a color or a genre but rather as "wives submit, men lead."

This touched some on the role of Christ, but since it went with the shorter Colossians rather than the longer Ephesians (which is where the discussion of the marriage being a picture of the relationship with Christ and the church occurs) it was focused entirely on gender roles.

[findthebalance]

We survived. But that is what we do. I just never imagined they were so narrow minded, the whole lot of them!

And then the one I always have hope for, she has been repeating it so long that she believes it too...or at least does because it is what she knows her husband wantes to hear