Copperfox
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Meanwhile, our hero Emmett Frankl, the Jewish Christian Western gunslinger and restaurant owner, was caught in a time-freeze without Doctor Who to help him out of it. He had just been asking his fiancee Queenie if she wanted to continue her modelling and entertaining career after she married him. But some bizarre secret experiment originating in the Netherlands, involving trying to make it be the same time at the same time in different time zones, had suspended the giving of Queenie's answer.
Emmett, being raised to know Scripture, understood that men and women are not ONLY different in their bodily organs. He knew what Ephesians chapter 5 said about a husband being "the head of the wife," and he knew that this WAS NOT cancelled by the earlier verse about all-purpose, undifferentiated "submitting to one another"--to which feminists often appealed to argue that they should be allowed to call all the shots and call this "equality." For the earlier verse was written in the social context of whole congregations, NOT precluding within the congregation the more localized relationship of husband and wife as head and heart.
Emmett's own father had lived the Christlike love the same Bible chapter also demanded from husbands. Emmett's mother, in 23 years of marriage to the elder Mr. Frankl before they passed away, had never once had cause to feel that she was enslaved, harassed, oppressed, demeaned, imprisoned, exploited, persecuted, abused or dehumanized by having a Bible-following husband. Mrs. Frankl, in fact, had gotten her own way in almost every matter she had a preference about--because her husband's leadership was not something exercised to gratify his own selfishness. Only a very few times had Mr. Frankl ever put his foot down; but when he did, Mrs. Frankl had never seen this as the time to kick him in the shin, for she knew he was leading for the best interests of his family.
Emmett now had at last the chance to try to be as good a husband as his father had been. He intended to be a leader who led for the benefit, not the repression, of his mate. And he intended to give Queenie her way automatically in every area where he had no substantial cause to oppose her wishes. Perhaps they could get through a lifetime together without his ever needing to say, "No, darling, THIS is the way it HAS to be." But if he ever had to say those words, he intended to stand by them--though those words would not be arrived at without prior discussion, unless it were perhaps in a sudden life-or-death emergency. The fact that he intended to value her life above his own was part of the moral authority behind this resolve.
Right now, Emmett was anxious to prove at the very start that his Biblical headship of the household was NOT the egotistical tyranny which the local 13-year-old girls wanted to believe it was so they could despise their own fathers. He would begin by compromising on his desire to keep Queenie near him--if she truly felt a need to go do more celebrity things. About this, as about nearly everything that would affect them in their life together, they would lovingly negotiate.
But until the time freeze ended, Emmett would not get to hear whether his cherished Queenie even did want to be a superstar anymore.
Emmett, being raised to know Scripture, understood that men and women are not ONLY different in their bodily organs. He knew what Ephesians chapter 5 said about a husband being "the head of the wife," and he knew that this WAS NOT cancelled by the earlier verse about all-purpose, undifferentiated "submitting to one another"--to which feminists often appealed to argue that they should be allowed to call all the shots and call this "equality." For the earlier verse was written in the social context of whole congregations, NOT precluding within the congregation the more localized relationship of husband and wife as head and heart.
Emmett's own father had lived the Christlike love the same Bible chapter also demanded from husbands. Emmett's mother, in 23 years of marriage to the elder Mr. Frankl before they passed away, had never once had cause to feel that she was enslaved, harassed, oppressed, demeaned, imprisoned, exploited, persecuted, abused or dehumanized by having a Bible-following husband. Mrs. Frankl, in fact, had gotten her own way in almost every matter she had a preference about--because her husband's leadership was not something exercised to gratify his own selfishness. Only a very few times had Mr. Frankl ever put his foot down; but when he did, Mrs. Frankl had never seen this as the time to kick him in the shin, for she knew he was leading for the best interests of his family.
Emmett now had at last the chance to try to be as good a husband as his father had been. He intended to be a leader who led for the benefit, not the repression, of his mate. And he intended to give Queenie her way automatically in every area where he had no substantial cause to oppose her wishes. Perhaps they could get through a lifetime together without his ever needing to say, "No, darling, THIS is the way it HAS to be." But if he ever had to say those words, he intended to stand by them--though those words would not be arrived at without prior discussion, unless it were perhaps in a sudden life-or-death emergency. The fact that he intended to value her life above his own was part of the moral authority behind this resolve.
Right now, Emmett was anxious to prove at the very start that his Biblical headship of the household was NOT the egotistical tyranny which the local 13-year-old girls wanted to believe it was so they could despise their own fathers. He would begin by compromising on his desire to keep Queenie near him--if she truly felt a need to go do more celebrity things. About this, as about nearly everything that would affect them in their life together, they would lovingly negotiate.
But until the time freeze ended, Emmett would not get to hear whether his cherished Queenie even did want to be a superstar anymore.
--with the psychotic Miss Piggy having been locked in a corrugated-metal toolshed. Learning what had happened and what Emmett and Queenie wanted to do now, the superhero had Emmett first write and sign a statement about the attempt on his life.