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Cheryl,

I am so happy to see yet another blog given to the discussion of what I call “patriocentricity.”

Someone dropped me an e-mail and told me that my name came up here and in not such favorable terms! Jayne, I am sorry to disappoint you, but if you had really read my writings or listened to my podcasts, you would know that you are hot on the wrong trail and are misrepresenting me. And Lin is correct, there have only been a handful of times I have removed posts but have never done so to stop the dialogue, only to ask others to behave nicely.

I have been reading the Bayly blog for a long time. I had never heard of these men until Terry Shiavo was taken off of life support and they made the mecca to Florida to lead protests against that action, their presence making news in World magazine. As much as I am strongly pro-life, I was bothered that two such highly emotional men where the spokesmen for our movement and when I came across their blog, I immediately recognized them because of the same traits in dealing with everyone. These men are the most arrogant and ungracious bloggers I have ever come across. I cannot begin to imagine what it would be like to be in a church where they pastored. While I have made a couple comments here and there, I have never engaged them in any serious conversation because they aren’t interested in dialog, only adoration from like-minded rude people. Their standards baffle me. A godly wife and mother, like for example, Rebecca Prewett, is banned for asking Tim Bayly to explain his very odd interpretation of a passage of Scripture, while they join others who wax on and on about the virtues of proven liars and those who live much less than transparent lives. I am truly in awe of these men and want no part of them. I have asked why in the world they are so afraid of Carolyn Custis James and can only conclude that they are girly men, so unsure of the validity of their own beliefs that if they are ever asked to explain something they write, they either magically become too busy with their own congregations and families to have time to answer or they ban the offender from ever posting again. Why does anyone ever bother with them? They ought to start their own singing group and call it the Self-Righteous Brothers.