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Saturday, January 27, 2007
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Lax Reflux UD has watched with some surprise as the momentary lax of the parameters story (here's the earlier post on it) has been picked up by more and more papers, this morning attaining the highest circle of the parameters, the New York Times. UD had dismissed this story as too boony for the bigtime, and had only posted about it herself because the chair of the board of trustees at the seminary in question described the school's hiring a woman to teach theology to men as a "momentary lax of the parameters." During the lax, they'd put her on a tenure track. Post-lax, they recalled that she was biblically constrained from teaching men, for lo ye shall not put a woman afore ye. This sort of university item only makes it from heartland pastures to the NYTimes because it is a freak show. To be sure, the story confirms the existence of illiterate fundamentalists in our richly varied higher ed establishment; but beyond this it has no news value or social significance. It's making the media rounds because laughing at what hayseeds do, and at how hayseeds talk, is fun. |