Thursday, June 10, 2004 AD
A modest proposal
FDN has persuaded me that it is deeply unfair to "take potshots at [sincere Christian sisters] on the basis of the world's standards", and I think the post that was here was guilty of that. So consider it pulled.
However, so that the discussion in the comments makes sense, here's the page from ModestApparelUSA.com that started this all off. Here is Ben Merkle's Credenda Agenda piece in which he bemoans the way in which (in his view) some Christian mothers send out the signal to their daughters that "their only two options are immodest and attractive or modest and frumpy", and here's Nancy Wilson's piece in which (among a lot of other, more objectionable, stuff) she does come up with the unanswerable point that "An immodest 'fashionable' woman has no grounds to make fun of her sisters in jumpers."
But at least the original post diverted people's attention away from the voting Conservative thing for a while...
However, so that the discussion in the comments makes sense, here's the page from ModestApparelUSA.com that started this all off. Here is Ben Merkle's Credenda Agenda piece in which he bemoans the way in which (in his view) some Christian mothers send out the signal to their daughters that "their only two options are immodest and attractive or modest and frumpy", and here's Nancy Wilson's piece in which (among a lot of other, more objectionable, stuff) she does come up with the unanswerable point that "An immodest 'fashionable' woman has no grounds to make fun of her sisters in jumpers."
But at least the original post diverted people's attention away from the voting Conservative thing for a while...
