Among the Intellectualoids /Mad About Methodism
Tooley, Mark D.
....................................................... Mad About Methodism J n an interview on religion that ran a week before last election day, Newsweek reported that "Hillary Rodham Clinton is...
...Calling the First Lady of the United States a `bitch' is unacceptable," intoned church spokeswomen...
...the 1962 Cuban missile crisis "humiliation...
...Last fall, its Council of Bishops saluted her "moving witness to the Christian faith...
...Oglesby asks...
...Oglesby recalls Western intervention in Russia's civil war, the West's subsequent economic isolation of the Soviets, the West's sacrifice of the Soviets to the Nazis, the West's post-WWII calls for a "rollback" of the Soviets' East European "buffer zone" against a "nuclearized" West Germany, and Mark D. Tooley is a research associate at the Institute on Religion & Democracy in Washington, D.C...
...In the piece, Hillary calls herself an "old-fashioned Methodist," citing as proof the fact that a now-defunct Methodist student magazine called motive (always with a lower-case "m") deeply influenced her undergraduate years at Wellesley...
...What must Foundry parishioners Bob and Elizabeth Dole think...
...Oglesby dismisses U.S...
...These Brazilian leftists may go totalitarian, but he thinks this possibility "only deepens the case" against resisting them...
...If the U.S...
...Paul, who wrote that when a child he had spoken and thought like a child, but once grown had learned to put away childish things...
...He was actually an activist with-eventually president of-Students for a Democratic Society (SDS...
...What would be so obviously wrong about a Vietnam run by Ho Chi Minh, [or] a Cuba by Castro...
...By 1971 motive had become too radical for by Mark D. Tooley even the United Methodist Church, which took away its funding...
...United Methodism has returned Hillary's loyalty...
...Methodism, for her, is not just a church but an extended family of faith that defines her horizons...
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...She recalls a 1966 motive article by Carl Oglesby titled "World Revolution and American Containment" as particularly decisive in crafting her opposition to the Vietnam War...
...Hillary Clinton is plowing new ground and for that many of us are grateful...
...Never mind...
...has transferred its hostility to Red China and its supposed North Vietnamese allies...
...He laments that the U.S., at the behest of the United Fruit Company, maintained "6,000 military bases" to combat "socialist tyrannies which are trying to feed, clothe, house, and cure their people...
...motive devoted its final issues to "coming out," and then folded forever...
...Newsweek describes Oglesby as a "Methodist theologian...
...has come to suspect Communist orchestration behind every liberation movement, Oglesby concludes, it is because "eve ourselves have become such a manipulating power...
...Methodism's founder preferred St...
...Such musings doubtless bewitched many teenage Methodists, most of whom then grew up and forgot all about them...
...After Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe, Wogaman expressed hope in a 1990 article that "Socialism's Obituary is Premature" in view of the free market's continuing "idolatries...
...wants only a certain kind of peace, in which the "world will be safe for the American businessman, on terms always advantageous, in environments always protected by friendly or puppet oligarchies by the Marines them selves," he writes...
...When Newt Gingrich's mom called her you know what, the Methodist Women's Division joined with the National Council of Churches to protest...
...Its pastor, Phil Wogaman, is a former Democratic candidate for Congress and a leading advocate for abortion rights and the ordination of homosexuals...
...Parson John Wesley never used the "b" word, never envisioned a motive magazine, and never expected Methodism's First Lady to admire an incendiary like Oglesby...
...She and her husband faithfully attend Washington's liberal Foundry United Methodist Church...
...paranoia about falling dominoes and hopes that a large domino, like Brazil, will fall to leftists "who will break up foreign monopolies, raise wages, redistribute land and trade freely with all nations...
...The U.S...
...and Soviets having settled into a comfortable truce, the U.S...
...Soviet foreign policy has tolerated America's Vietnam "outrages" and "theft" of the Dominican Republic, says Oglesby...
...In his 1966 piece, he mobilizes 8,000 words of small print to rail against the "virulent strain" of American imperialism that is enforced by big business and the Marines...
...Newsweek says her anti-war beliefs shifted her from Goldwater conservatism to McGovern liberalism...
...But motive had changed irrevocably the worldview of young Hillary, who after three decades recounts that she "still has every issue they sent me...
...With the U.S...
...Mad About Methodism J n an interview on religion that ran a week before last election day, Newsweek reported that "Hillary Rodham Clinton is as pious as she is political...
...Newsweek says Hillary "thinks like a Methodist, talks like a Methodist, and wants to reform society just like a Methodist churchwoman should...
Vol. 28 • March 1995 • No. 3
