The lay preacher's wife on Colonial House sounds like a DUer

[catmandu57]

Listening to her talk, I just kept thinking if she's not here, then she really needs to find her way home to us. I can't even remember her name, damn short term memory.
I hope she finds us.

[mac56]

1. I thought so too.

And the "governor"/Waco Baptist minister sounds like a RW wingnut.

[2bfree]

2. I couldn't believe that asshole and his response......

to the fellow who came out of the closet last night. I was almost in tears when that boy stood up and told everyone that he was gay and the whole row of idiots who sat there with their arms crossed and then had nasty comments later. Errrrr. :(

[Zero Gravitas]

4. I wonder

if that has something to do with the "regime change"? or whether they leave for other reasons. I get the feeling that this whole experience was a bit too 21st Century for the fundie family... overall they seemed like nice enough people but they're obviously not used to dealing with people who aren't exactly like themselves.

[cally]

6. I've been wondering too

Do you think the preacher and family leave because they can't stand to befriend a gay man? My husband thinks thats why they leave but I think they would stay and leave for another reason.

[WillParkinson]

10. I thought they left...

Because a family friend (daughter's boyfriend?) was killed in a car accident.

The guy is supposed to come back but without the family, I heard.

[Zero Gravitas]

12. They came back

in yesterday's episode but the previews for next week's show them leaving again.

[Don_G]

3. Once Again

"Reality" Television is reported as "News."

Just an opinion....

[Zero Gravitas]

5. News?

where was this show reported as "News"? Its actually very interesting seeing a glimpse of what life was like almost 400 years ago.

[Bridget Burke]

8. Gosh, I thought this was the Lounge!

Didn't realize this is LBN. Perhaps you should alert?

[catmandu57]

7. Compared to everything else that's on the idiot box

this has been a breath of fresh air, I don't see it as news, just entertainment. I think most of the other people on the program are educated thinking people.
The fundie is being educated, that is apparent to me when they show progressive interviews with him, I don't think he could handle it though and that is a reason for his leaving.

[Bill McBlueState]

9. I didn't see the show, but it sounds good

Can we have some more details, for those of us who didn't watch? What kind of DUish things did the wife say?

[catmandu57]

11. For one thing

that really caught my ear, she said that the she was very concerned about which direction the country had been going for the past three years.
She exhibits a very liberal and community cohesion attitude, she is very likable to borrow a term from the political pollsters.
The show in a nutshell is a recreation of a colony of settlers in 1628. they are authenic in every detail, from the clothing, and diet, to social structure and role of the members.

[tigereye]

14. apparently the lay preacher and his wife are professors

not that that necessarily makes them potentially left-leaning or DUers. They also noted that one of their daughters? was gay as well. I found the scene very moving. But the fundie folk are a bit hard to take. I assume that they were all chosen to exploit that type of dissonance. The Puritan thing vs the freethinker thing. Interesting.

[Robbien]

13. When watching this I kept seeing so many simularities to Iraq

Riverbend's blog talks about how women now may not leave the house unless accompanyed by a male member of the family. She writes that she can no longer wear clothes that she wants to wear but must cover her body from head to toe. She talks about how even daily chores are so hard now because of the electricity problem and that dozens of water buckets must be carried up to the roof each day.

Colonial House was hard for these people to do for three months. Iraqi has now been doing it for over a year and may be stuck doing it for a good time to come.