ETA: Just shared the article with Mr. MtL over morning coffee. His reaction - "She is scary. Where's my martini - I'd need one, coming home to that." 

I follow her private instagram where she basically said they are pursuing a relationship to find out if it's God's will for them to marry.

She's 22.

(I don't make the news, I only report it. :lol: )

ETA: There's a website, too: darnell11thgagop.com

perseveronews.com/femininity-biblical-not-merely-cultural/

He then adds a fun blind item about a "young man" with whom he engaged in a spirited debate on this subject.

facebook.com

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ETA: Ugh, had to break link because it was running off the page.

This deserves its own topic but I'm afraid it will take a Debrand or Palimpsest to dissect Mr Darnell's commentary. In the meantime I'll leave you with some epic quotes which, inevitably, raise more snark questions than answers:

Thus, it’s great to see Jessa and Ben approaching getting married at a fairly young age compared to the national averages of today. They are being proactive about marriage. Jessa is 20 years old and Ben is 18 years old. Getting married at a young age will enable them to maximize their ability to “be fruitful and multiply†as Jessa’s own parents have already been setting an extraordinary example.

Hello, Nathaniel? Do you read what you write?

Two people cannot be left alone and be allowed to congeal together as they talk far beyond foundational issues and into personal matters, begin to share intimacies and expectations for marriage, and not expect that damage will be done if things are abruptly and callously concluded. This is one chief reason for why fathers need to take the lead in the relationship from the get-go.

Congeal together? Like leftover bacon grease? Oh, and Nathaniel - did your father take the lead in your recently ended relationship? Inquiring snarkers want to know.

Since I was 11-years-old, I have committed to the Lord that I would give my first kiss (to a lady outside of my family) to only my wife at my wedding. I have thus far been true to that commitment.

Yes, best to avoid those icky girl-kisses.

...some degree of affection in an approach toward marriage is inescapable. We just have to be careful about how we go about it. Most importantly, we cannot allow our expressions of physical or emotional affection to imply an idolatry of the other person or of ourselves. God gave us affections to make obeying His commands pleasant. We can turn those pleasures into something idolatrous and erotic if we take them to excess, living as if we were our own gods. We play our own gods when we use a resource He’s given to do something the Lord expressly forbids.

Whoa, Nelly - WTF does this even mean?

Sometimes I hear someone say something like, “No courtship is a failure!†This is not true. If an approach to marriage ends because either or both parties violate the covenant of God’s Law-Word, it is most definitely a failure, and it is wrong to give those who do this false assurance by glossing over it.

So Nathaniel - was your recently ended courtship a failure?

Dr. R.J. Rushdoony: "Inflation has its roots in bad morality; it is a belief that larceny can be good if controlled by the federal government." Another example of why every issue—including economic issues—are "social" or moral issues.

I know what inflation is but I don't understand how that is connected to morality. How is that connected to larceny by the federal government? I've tried to take some guesses but I honestly don't understand the rational behind this statement.

.perseveronews.com/

I can't find any evidence that we discussed this site in depth.

The author has some rather dramatic views about government taxation

Through the dual mechanisms of regulation and taxation, they have claimed control over all of creation. There seems to be nothing they won’t tax, and nothing they won’t regulate. And each instance of taxation or regulation takes power and freedom from the jurisdiction of the family, and gives it to the state.

perseveronews.com/the-second-mayflower-the-good/

He also isn't a fan of science

Even in today’s age of blasphemous and adulterous science, the overwhelming majority of children are still produced by the sexual act between a man and a woman, sometimes even a married couple. An attack, then, on the family is an attack on the wellspring of life.

.perseveronews.com/black-mob-violence-the-reality-of-the-plight-of-the-black-family/

The writer states that black mob violence is on the rise and provides not one iota of proof for that assertion. We can add racist to the writer's personality traits.

Obamacare is, of course, bad.

This is what happens when we bow before the idols of this world. They only lead to despotism. Obamacare and liberalism in America is simply the result of a society that has abandoned the Lord.

Trying to make certain that the poor can be medically treated is evil.

The entire site is crazy and very snark worthy.

perseveronews.com/obamacare-website-woes-why-big-government-cant-save-you/

The caption to this wedding rehesrsal photo reads: Lauren’s father leads her to her gazer

perseverofilms.com/2010/06/the-wedding-of-tim-lauren/

What an odd way for a fundie, Nathaniel Darnell, to label a photo. Have we dicussed this wedding yet? Bradrick and Doug Philips are in it.

But perhaps Churchill’s most telling words were communicated to Lloyd George. Churchill wrote: “You might as well legalize sodomy as recognize the Bolsheviks.â€[3]

Say what? Yes, you read that correctly. Winston Churchill, speaking for all of western society in his day, not only summarized the disdain people should feel toward the evils of Lenin’s Communism but also expressed how utterly unthinkable his generation considered legalized sodomy. Let alone celebrating it. He sensed sodomy was such an unquestionable evil that he felt confident in comparing it to something else he knew to be just as evil so as to effectively convey his moral outrage

This appeal to authority falls short because, outside the black and white mentality of Vision Forum, most of us realize that historical figures are a mixture of good and bad traits and believes. We might overall admire someone's record while acknowldeging that they held views with which we strongly disagree.

Where is the moral outrage of this generation? Today, in contrast we not only have legalized sodomy, but we celebrate sodomy along with communism publicly, as our new civil leaders encourage us. In this day of self-indulgence and â€tolerance,†we’re running short on the morally unthinkable.

I have moral outraged but my outrage is based on the fact that I don't believe that I have the right to tell someone else that they can't have sex with another consenting adult. Guess what? I mind my own business and except others to also. And how our we celebrating sodomy any more then we celebrate heterosexuality? He doesn't give any examples. And communism? I think that most people on the right have no idea what the word, communism actually means.

Churchill’s generation reflected one less removed from the influence of Christendom — a revival that began in the fifteenth century and saw its height between the sixteenth and seventeenth century with the rise of the Reformers and the Puritans

Do you think he would be happy if I hanged a couple of witches and persecuted Quakers?

americanvision.org/5931/winston-churchills-choice-words-for-gay-pride-month/