“Maverick: an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party.”
--Merriam-Webster Dictionary
I’m told my political views lack “values,” that l’m a “woman with a past” who’ll be “left behind” when the Rapture comes. But my father was a maverick, who raised his daughter to be a maverick, too strong-willed to repent of her feminist and environmentalist views.
Christianity isn’t a maverick-friendly religion. One evangelical minister preached Jesus broke the legs of lambs who strayed from the flock.
I once helped a farmer’s son herd sheep. Sheep go astray en masse, not alone. No good shepherd would cripple his entire flock. Such nonsense is a bridge to nowhere. Thanks, but no thanks. I’ll find Christ on my own.
Mavericks are like that: stubborn, opinionated and independent. Tell me how to vote; I’ll vote the other way. Withhold my communion; I’ll withhold my tithe.
This is why Christians opposed John McCain.
But Sarah Palin is no maverick. A maverick wouldn’t let her minister cast witches out of her. A maverick wouldn’t be team playing enough to be a hockey mom, patriotic enough to say “Country First,” or submissive enough to receive support from Focus on the Family.
--Merriam-Webster Dictionary
I’m told my political views lack “values,” that l’m a “woman with a past” who’ll be “left behind” when the Rapture comes. But my father was a maverick, who raised his daughter to be a maverick, too strong-willed to repent of her feminist and environmentalist views.
Christianity isn’t a maverick-friendly religion. One evangelical minister preached Jesus broke the legs of lambs who strayed from the flock.
I once helped a farmer’s son herd sheep. Sheep go astray en masse, not alone. No good shepherd would cripple his entire flock. Such nonsense is a bridge to nowhere. Thanks, but no thanks. I’ll find Christ on my own.
Mavericks are like that: stubborn, opinionated and independent. Tell me how to vote; I’ll vote the other way. Withhold my communion; I’ll withhold my tithe.
This is why Christians opposed John McCain.
But Sarah Palin is no maverick. A maverick wouldn’t let her minister cast witches out of her. A maverick wouldn’t be team playing enough to be a hockey mom, patriotic enough to say “Country First,” or submissive enough to receive support from Focus on the Family.
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