Comments on: Tuxedos, tolerance, and the religious right http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2005/03/tuxedos-tolerance-and-the-religious-right/ The future belongs to those who prove themselves the true friends of mankind. Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:26:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Mark W. Anderson http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2005/03/tuxedos-tolerance-and-the-religious-right/#comment-547 Mark W. Anderson Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:42:06 +0000 http://thesentimentalist.com/?p=175#comment-547 Please see http://www.karenelizabeth.com/photos/highschool_drape.jpg for the only example I could find of a "drape." Please see http://www.karenelizabeth.com/photos/highschool_drape.jpg
for the only example I could find of a “drape.”

]]> By: John G. Spragge http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2005/03/tuxedos-tolerance-and-the-religious-right/#comment-546 John G. Spragge Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:04:11 +0000 http://thesentimentalist.com/?p=175#comment-546 Forgive an ignorant foreigner's question, but what exactly sort of garment does the word "drape" refer to here? Forgive an ignorant foreigner’s question, but what exactly sort of garment does the word “drape” refer to here?

]]> By: aslam http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2005/03/tuxedos-tolerance-and-the-religious-right/#comment-545 aslam Mon, 07 Mar 2005 01:04:05 +0000 http://thesentimentalist.com/?p=175#comment-545 I wonder if there's anyone on the right - religious or otherwise - who will publicly acknowledge how boneheaded this sort of stuff is. As Larraine pointed out, Davis' story is self-contradictory - and almost comically so - in the context of "conservative values." On the other hand, breaking with tradition _is_ fundamentally antithetical to conservatism, which seeks to maintain established order... I don't need to chase my tail here, do I? Kelli Davis should simply be free to be Kelli Davis. I wonder if there’s anyone on the right – religious or otherwise – who will publicly acknowledge how boneheaded this sort of stuff is. As Larraine pointed out, Davis’ story is self-contradictory – and almost comically so – in the context of “conservative values.” On the other hand, breaking with tradition _is_ fundamentally antithetical to conservatism, which seeks to maintain established order…

I don’t need to chase my tail here, do I? Kelli Davis should simply be free to be Kelli Davis.

]]> By: Larraine http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2005/03/tuxedos-tolerance-and-the-religious-right/#comment-544 Larraine Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:34:37 +0000 http://thesentimentalist.com/?p=175#comment-544 One would think that the school would embrace Nicole and her desire to wear something less revealing. A great deal of this also has to do with that Southern sensibility of womanhood. Nicole is going against the grain by not weraing a "drape" - which is pretty old fashioned anyway. Maybe because I graduated from a Catholic girls' high school in 1965 - we didn't wear a "drape" either! The nuns would have been apoplectic! There really is an awful lot of paranoia out there in religious right land, isn't there! One would think that the school would embrace Nicole and her desire to wear something less revealing. A great deal of this also has to do with that Southern sensibility of womanhood. Nicole is going against the grain by not weraing a “drape” – which is pretty old fashioned anyway. Maybe because I graduated from a Catholic girls’ high school in 1965 – we didn’t wear a “drape” either! The nuns would have been apoplectic! There really is an awful lot of paranoia out there in religious right land, isn’t there!

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