Nov 11 2004
A Tale of Two Sisters
This is a story told to me by my mother. It is being written here to preserve it for as long as I like.
Saturday evening my parents are at home and a sister calls them. She says, “Are you listening to Prairie Home Companion?”
My father, who answered the phone, says that no they are not because they have not been able to find it on the two local NPR stations in Dayton.
The sister says (and I am paraphrasing because 1. I was not there and 2. I didn’t write down exactly what my mother said), “Well, Garrison Keillor just said that Evangelical Christians shouldn’t be allowed to vote because their citizenship is in heaven.”
Based on my sister’s tone, my mother took her statement to mean that my sister did not appreciate this statement made by one of America’s oldest radio performers and writers. Maybe my sister thought that Mr. Keillor had gone a step too far.
After my father hung up the phone it rang again, almost immediately. It was another sister.
She says, “Are you listening to Prairie Home Companion?”
My father, who answered the phone, says that no they are not because they have not been able to find it on the two local NPR stations in Dayton.
The sister says (and again, I am paraphrasing because 1. I was not there and 2. I didn’t write down exactly what my mother said), “Well, Garrison Keillor just said that Evangelical Christians shouldn’t be allowed to vote because their citizenship is in heaven.” And then she laughed and laughed as if it was the funniest thing she had heard in her life.
My parents just looked at each other in bewildered amazement. (So says my mother.)
I find this story to be a funny one. I also find the statement by Keillor to be funny, meant in jest. And I am not a Democrat.
But, I find it funny in the “Ha ha” sense as well as the “isn’t that interesting” that two children could grow up in my parents home and come out with very different perspectives on the world. It just goes to show that everyone is different with different views and yet sometimes we are related.
And that is as close as I will ever get to writing about politics on this blog.
Which one was my wife?
Let’s just say that they called in birth order.
I thought that story was funny. I just thought that Garrison was out of line making fun, I’m not sure that it was in gest…and I find it funny that our reactions were reverse in regards to how we voted. ironic it is…
it is pretty funny that our reactions where that way…and in regards with the way we voted…but it was funny and i know that dear old Garrison (who has started to get pretty political and such) was just joking…if he really meant it i bet he would lose about 75% of his audience for awhile…