Comic relief!

Everyone must be familiar with Lady Lydia's catty remarks on old ladies at the market and Katrina victims. So we though we'd do a comic post. Next in line, maybe Lydia's racist remarks on black slaves in America. Do check out the original link:

http://homeliving.blogspot.com/2005/09/more-readers-respond.html

Time warp at Homeliving Helper

Every one knows how Lady Lydia pre-dates her articles, deletes controversial articles, removes articles from the side-bar, etc.

People can do whatever they want on their blogs! What others don't relish is the sneaky underhand way in which Lady Lydia deletes stuff (without offering an apology or feeling remorse for racist views professed).

The post on silly women disappeared after True Womanhood, Punkassblog and WhiteWashed Feminists criticized it.

http://homeliving.blogspot.com/2008/06/silly-women.html

There is now a question & answer session on

http://homeliving.blogspot.com/2006/06/q-and.htmlcom/2006/06/q-and.html

The Q & A session was earlier on the sidebar...but following too many negative reactions it has been taken of the side-bar.

Where Lydia gets trapped in the time-warp?

The White Washed Feminists post – "Doug Phillips, Lydia Sherman, Jennie Chancey, and Stacy McDonald Reject the "Virgin" Mary" - was published on July 31, 2008.

Lydia's rebuttal to that is however dated 06/2006 i.e. June 2006?

Other missing posts at Homeliving:

The post "What if" with Lydia's racist comments on black slaves, slaves in Eygpt and comparisons of working women to harlots has disappeared off the blog.

The post "All dressed Up has undergone severe re-modificiation with much deletion of all those controversial comments on how badly dressed women victims of Katrina were....

So all in all, you can expect a lot of posts to get deleted, re-shuffled, anti-dated, post-dated, taken off the side-bar etc.

Who is more likely to lie? Blogger or Lady Lydia?

Now, blogger (cannot lie being an impersonal service provider) says: Homeliving helper was started on November 2006.

But yet, you will find 141 posts in 2005, 7 posts in 2004 and 1 post in 2003.

That 1 post in 2003, is the defense to her "What if" post, which she deleted

(Update: Lady Lydia has now deleted the archives and date links on her side-bar, so that no one can tell how she's stuck in the time-warp. What she doesn't realise is people can easily get every post (expired/ deleted/altered) on her blog, if they only knew how to look. Well, Lydia nice to know you keep checking this blog to see what you should delete or change! Keep snooping around Lydia, your daughter's already our top visitor and your coming a close second)

Lady Lydia does not practise what she preaches!

Lady Lydia does not believe in following what she says.

Laura Craft from WWF on Lady Lydia:

So, when people like Jennie Chancy, Stacy McDonald, Lydia Sherman, and of course, Doug Phillips stand up to lead a church, to write books, to start public blogs, then they ought to expect not only criticism but scrutiny. Not only should we be looking at what they preach but also at how they live it. It is the old adage, “they can talk the talk, but can they walk the walk?” Could we go too far in investigating their private lives? Of course. Everyone deserves privacy. However, when a person preaches a particular way of living, it is only fair that they are held to their own standards. Should we go dig up dirt about these men and women from their past? No. But neither should we let their theology, comments, or actions go by without any accountability.

Here are some little known facts about the family:

Debt & Finance:

The private circumstances of any individual is no concern of others you might say. But when Lady Lydia preaches that women going to work only causes more expenses and the way to frugal living is through housewifery; then we feel bound to shatter some of the myths she has created around herself.

• Lady Lydia and her husband are in huge debt. They have no savings and they still haven't cleared their debts (So how dare she talk about frugal living?)
  
• Lady Lydia or her family does not own any house or land. The property that they are so fond of photographing and putting up on their blog is a rental, property of the Church of Lancaster (So how dare she writes article after article on how responsible Christian parents must leave an inheritance - house/land/money - for their children?) 
• Lady Lydia does not have any insurance; not even health insurance. The reason her daughter had all four babies at home was because they didn't have health insurance, couldn't afford to go the hospital and had to have a mid-wife. (So how dare she says the state health care system is bad, when its obivous she can't afford it?)
• Lady Lydia's husband does MLM, but is quite unsuccesful at it. Lady Lydia assists him in his MLM activities, including visiting clients.

Lollybeth & Living on charity:

• Lady Lydia's daughter Lollybeth and her husband stay with them, because they couldn't afford a place of their own after the son-in-law lost his job (So how dare she writes articles criticising other men, whose wives work?)
• The son-in-law still hasn't got himself a job. So he does MLM marketing part-time and preaches occasionally. (What right has she to preach her one-income lifestyle is better, when her family affairs are in such shambles? And when her own son-in-law is in college though he can't afford it, why is it bad and unaffordable for girls to be in college?) 
• The Bumpfries cousins on The Unpleasant Times are actually the Merman family themselves. Lollybeth says: "the Bumpfries live below poverty level." (And yet look at the snobbery and racism....My, My)
• Lollybeth and her husband are in huge debt and live on the charity of close relatives and friends. (Very manly, isn't it? The head of the house supported by charity?)
• Lollybeth's husband (father of 4)  is studying a full-time course in Architecture, financed by his parents. He does not hold any full-time job. He has also taken student loans, which he has not repaid. (Nice, not only does someone take care of his family, someone also foots his college expenses and takes care of those loans. How manly is that?)
• Lollybeth lives on the charity of near and dear ones. The expenses to run her family of six is meted out by her parents and in-laws. 
• Lollybeth and her family of six stay in the garage of her parents' rented house (for which they don't pay the rent, but the parish does.)
• Lady Lydia's two sons are indepedant and live away from her; contrary to her principles of adult children staying with the family
• Lady Lydia herself at the age of 18, chose to stay a single women in America when her entire family left for Australia. She chose to attend Bible classes and marry someone, totally unknown to her parents. So what right does she have to say "women shouldn't go to college," "women should stay at home" or "courtship/betrothal is better than dating?"

Lady Lydia's business activities:

• Lady Lydia is a woman of merchandise. Though she does not want other women to engage in the sordid world of commerce, she holds jobs and earns money. She also acts as PA fo her husband's MLM activities.
• If you thought all the pretty pictures at LAF and Homeliving are for decoration, you are wrong! Lady Lydia, Lollybeth and Jennie Chancey have consistently promoted Victorian art, because they have signed up with online art dealers. They have posted more than 2,000 pictures all in all...so look at the amount of money they make with each click.
• Lady Lydia and Lollybeth have had to support their husbands through their sewing business, affiliation through Allposters.com, online shop at CafePress and as speakers for SAHM-patriocentric conferences.
• Lady Lydia likes to pride herself as an author, but not more than a dozen books have been sold and of the three reviews the book received at Lulu.com, two were planted.
• Lady Lydia has no savings, only debt, but lives a hedonistic, consumerist lifestyle. There are four cars in their garage, four computers, TVs, even a swimming pool...just about everything - and all of it is still unpaid for. Lady Lydia is a firm believer in installments, so they just keep buying more stuff and pay the lowest installment on it.
• Lady Lydia has made many racist remarks about black slaves in America, snobbish remarks about the state of undress of the victims of Katrina, on KOOPs - other people's kids and has labelled the women at White Washed Feminists, TrueWomanhood as "silly women." When there was controversy about her posts, she immediately deleted them but evidence of them can be found in other sites.

Lady Lydia at her racist best!

At Homeliving Helper, there were certain posts that created a huge controversy with many blogs and websites heaping criticism on Lady Lydia. Lady Lydia of course could not honestly acknowledge her racist, supremacist prejudices/faults. So she sneakily deleted all the controversial posts on her blog and then sent spiteful mails to all who had criticised her actions.

The Visionary Daughters thread #3 at TrueWomanhood and the Dear Lady Lydia article on White Washed Feminists, shows that more than 50 Christians have witnessed and written about her deceit, lies and racism online. Though she has deleted the post there are many links that show her true colours.

Lady Lydia on how "black slaves in America were happy:"

These racist quotes are from an article, she wrote, titled, "What if.." Within a few days, however, she deleted it and all the comments on it.

The list [of what if's] goes on and on, and as a young single girl, I can remember asking questions like this myself, just to sound very smart. Things change once your heart changes and you get married, and even those who have children and no husband, soon discover their minds changing about a lot of things. The presence of someone else dear to your life, will change your thinking in many ways. You are no longer thinking of “me” but of “we,” and that makes a big, big difference.

I don’t care about what the slaves did in Egypt, and I don’t care about the women in the factories in Victorian times, or the women in the work houses in Edwardian times. What I care about is what the Bible teaches women about how to live.

All these scenes that everyone presents to me to trip me up, remind me of the Pharisees and their attempt to trap the words of Jesus. They were just trying to justify their actions and get out of doing what was right.

If a girl really truly wants to do what is right and will bring the greatest blessings on her, and is concerned about having a long marriage and a good home and good children, she will pay attention to what the scriptures teach women to do.

In a time when the non-believing women were loud and pushy and bossy and independent, the holy spirit told women to be busy at home. It was partly to make them different from the world and keep the word of God from being blasphemed, and partly because it is what is best for a woman’s make up. We live in a nervous world today and it has increased since women went to work enmasse and left the comforts of the home.

It may have been true that some women worked in factories and let their children run in the streets or put them to work too, but there were, in every single era that has ever existed throughout time, women who followed the Biblical teachings.

Yes, there were women who worked in saloons in the days of the wild, wild west, but there were Christian women who did not. There have always been women who managed pubs or worked every day in the market, but those who followed the scriptures knew that their place was in the home. Just because women working as harlots was mentioned in the Bible, does not give women the authority to do it. Christian women will always be different.

No matter what state we find ourselves in, the Bible teaches us that the woman’s greatest and most powerful role is as guard and guide of her home and family. That will never change, no matter what the economy does; no matter what the government does; no matter what the prevailing culture does.

It is still possible to be all those things that the Bible teaches. You can give me the weirdest scenario, and I will admit there are always exceptions. Sure, Deborah was a judge, so is that teaching us to become career judges?

Lydia was a seller of purple, so does that mean we all go door to door selling cloth? And yes, there were the slaves in Egypt. Does that mean we should all be slaves and go to work in other people’s houses for minimum wage?

It is possible that even in the slave era in America, that many women stayed in their cabins having babies and fixing meals for their husbands in the cotton fields.

Rahab ran a public house, and though she found favor with God for her heroic actions, it does not say that God approved of the way she lived, or that we should all become tavern keepers or harlots.

We can not say for certain that on every single plantation that every single woman and child worked in the cotton fields. Every one was different, and there were some Christian plantations where women were treated differently. But whatever happened, it does not matter, because Christians with conviction will follow the inspired word of God.

Why is this article terrible, un-Christian and racist?

• Because it shows prejudice, no sympathy and a racist attitude towards Hebrew slaves in Eygpt and Afro-American slaves in America.
• It shows slaves as contented, happy beings. It shows glaring ignorance of history by saying there were Afro-American slave women, who were given the choice of being June Cleavers. Her ignorance of the brutal, severe conditions under which slave women worked is shocking!
• Her statement about some "Christian slave owners permitting their women slaves to set up home," again shows massive prejudice, arrogance and ignorance. If they were Christian they wouldn't have owned slaves. Does she at all know that Afro-American women, men and children were treated as property to be bought or sold? Does she at all know that many "so-called Christian slave owners" raped Afro-American women? Families were a rarity under the slave system, because the children, women and men would be sold different people. The scenario she presents is impossible.
• She compares all working women to "saloon workers and harlots". Another display of bigotry, arrogance and sheer-snobbery.

To add insult to injury, she commented on her own article saying:

Lady Lydia speaks:To reinforce my point: You can hurl any insulting challenge toward me–like what about the Hebrew slaves in Egypt, and what about kidnapped women forced to work, etc., and I will say one thing: yes these things happen: I didn’t do it. I had no part in it. I didn’t condone it. But no matter WHAT the prevailing culture, those who follow the Lord, and His Word, WILL NOT do those things that violate other human beings. Yes, there are men who beat their wives (that comment comes in every day, as if they think I’m living in the Garden of Eden before drugs and alcohol)–but those who love the Lord with all their hearts minds and souls will also love their wives as their own bodies. Yes there have been matriarchial socieites, but there were always those who followed the Lord and His will. Yes, there is this and there is that, as you young girls are always telling me, but if you are a Christian, you have a renewed mind and you are different than the world. Christian women will be the kind of women that is taught in the last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ. It is difficult for those to understand who have never obeyed the gospel, because they will not hear with the understanding that is given them upon their conversion. Therefore, if you aren’t a Christian, or if you are in rebellion against the scriptures, you will always find a way around them, if that is what you want to do. No one is going to arrest you for it or start a blog to name you and derride you..at least, not me. You are certainly welcome to your own ways and your own beliefs and you need not come here if you don’t like it.

Other links:

PSC Candidate's wife says she chose homemaker's job

Racist views at Homeliving

The Homeliving blog was started on December 3, 2004. But lately a post has appeared on January 3, 2003, supporting Lady Lydia's views that black slaves lead a happy life. Suprised at the time gap....well Lady Lydia is well known for editing and re-editing controversial posts.

But be warned! The minute Lady Lydia knows that someone has criticised this post she is going to delete it.

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Washington%2C%20Booker%20T.%2C%201856-1915

This will give you some insight into the daily lives of the people at the time.
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/lees%20slave.htmwritten by a slave.

This also written by slaves
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2.html

Here an online book with historyhttp://books.google.com/books?id=L2RMRwJ1IUsC&pg=PT62id=L2RMRwJ1IUsC&pg=PT62&lpg=PT62&dq=american+slaves+who+became+preachers&source=web&ots=RLUwPIou7I&sig=jgLplqmNSvEl2KnQe89SpT9EqrM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA2007,M1

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Washington%2C%20Booker%20T.%2C%201856-1915

This will give you some insight into the daily lives of the people at the time.
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/lees%20slave.htmwritten by a slave.

This also written by slaves
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2.html

Here an online book with historyhttp://books.google.com/books?id=L2RMRwJ1IUsC&pg=PT62&lpg=PT62&dq=american+slaves+who+became+preachers&source=web&ots=RLUwPIou7I&sig=jgLplqmNSvEl2KnQe89SpT9EqrM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result#PPA2007,M1

For further research: the natural born citizenship was created in order to give these people , former slaves, full citizenship in the U.S. It was not for the purpose of giving immigrants a chance to come to the US and have children to make them citizens and collect welfare or other government benefits.

The comments which first started the controversy were:

" don’t care about what the slaves did in Egypt, and I don’t care about the women in the factories in Victorian times, or the women in the work houses in Edwardian times. What I care about is what the Bible teaches women about how to live." It is possible that even in the slave era in America, that many women stayed in their cabins having babies and fixing meals for their husbands in the cotton fields.

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But then Lady Lydia deleted the original post, the minute Christians started protesting about this. So far Lady Lydia has deleted the posts on scantily-clad victims of Katrina, rude comments from her readers, What if article on black slaves being "happy in slavery," and the posts on "silly women."

To read excerpts from the original post do check out this article from White Washed Feminists.