The Thinking Housewife's Full-Throated Endorsement Of Donald Trump

Dear Elaine,

I have an ongoing intellectual relationship with a "traditionalist" Catholic name Laura Wood who blogs as "The Thinking Housewife."

I "met" Laura - perhaps five years ago - when Fred Owens had corresponded with her for some months.

At that time, Fred brought to Laura's attention an all-woman band from our alma mater - St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto.

Back then, Laura (who just last week issued a full-throated endorsement of The Despicable One) criticized -- in no uncertain terms -- the cover of the UT women's album because it pictured band members lying on a bed in "pijama party" fashion. 

I do not remember exactly how she phrased her criticism, but as I recall, Laura "saw" the album cover as suggestive of lesbianism - or some other "near occasion" of sexual sin.

Here is Laura's current political affiliation:

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The hypocrisy is stunning.

Do you really think Jesus would approve?

I am fully prepared for the answer to be "yes" but still think it's an important question to ask.

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

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