I Nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton
Did you ever want to write something but didn't know where to begin? Have you ever had a message to deliver but somehow just couldn't seem to bring yourself to the point of delivery? So it is with me as I begin this composition. The subject is one I had not thought of addressing. The central character is one from whom I had purposefully remained aloof. In other words, I didn't want to touch the issue. As a matter of fact, for years I thought I was preserving my "integrity" by all but ignoring the actions and events swirling around the subject family.
But now this message, which has been growing in me for some time, can no longer be ignored. The time for delivery is at hand. I think I now have some sense of how a woman, who had tried to preserve her dignity, must feel as she is driven to the hospital to deliver a child conceived as a result of rape. The thoughts must be multitudinous; they rush fast and sharp through her mind: Why did it happen? Why me? What will become of this child? Will it grow up to honor me or disgrace me? As she enters the delivery room area she must, in spite of all her misgivings, experience the comfort of knowing that soon, very soon, the pregnancy will have been completed and delivery will have taken place.
So it is as I pen these words. Beginning with the introduction of William Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton to the national stage, I had avoided serious study of them as well as serious dialogue about their actions. As early as 1992 I made a tacit decision to "sit out" the "Clinton era". I felt they brought so much baggage with them that any incursion into their world would drag one into a region of circuitous trails whose myriad paths lead nowhere. So I stayed aloof. But, like that baby that keeps growing, so did this message. So, let's bring forth.
I am cautious about praising people too much because one usually doesn't know for sure what that person might turn out to be; Thus another reason to never let this composition see the light of day. However, not to write this would be a great disservice to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
I write this with specificity. In other words, I speak of specific events in the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton and seek not to address her life in general terms.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has won my admiration. She did so by resisting the extreme pressure placed on her when many people whom she loves and respects advised her, urged her, expected her to end her marriage to William Clinton. In fact, I believe it can be fairly said that many people, especially women's liberation advocates, in 1998, demanded that she "throw his clothes out of the White House window". That is severe pressure and difficult to withstand. Yet Hillary Rodham Clinton did not cave. And for that she has won my admiration. Why my admiration? Because I believe God. God has set certain standards for marriage. Modern man continually seeks to abrogate those standards. So, when I see someone stand against the prevailing human rationalization and confirm God's standards I am impressed. Their submission to God's standards causes me to admire them.
I must pause here to state that this is not an endorsement of the Clinton marriage. I don't know much about their marital history. I don't even know whether or not each of them is in his or her first marriage. God abhors divorce. So do I. God's word says, "For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away..." (Malachi 2:16 The Holy Bible). Jesus Christ said, "Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery." (Mark 10:11-12). So it is clear that God regards marriage as a special and sacred institution. Pity modern man!!!
Hillary Rodham Clinton, by not caving to the withering pressure from the existing political, philosophical and social genres, confirmed in her life the Godly principle of the preservation of marriage. Marriages are to be preserved. They are not to be broken or destroyed. Hillary Rodham Clinton made a decision to preserve the marriage. That one decision may have preserved Bill Clinton's term as President as well. If she had "thrown his clothes out of the White House window", his enemies almost everywhere would have demanded his immediate resignation. That one act, to stand firm and unite with him, is perhaps the single most important event in all of Bill Clinton's presidency. Division leads to defeat. So, for her to have allowed herself to be divided from him at that very moment in history would have represented exactly what their adversaries needed to take advantage of the age-old principle of "divide and conquer".
But Hillary Rodham Clinton did not cave. Even though it looked as if she was betraying her friends in the women's liberation movement, she didn't cave. And for that she is to be applauded. She is to be admired. Why applause and admiration? Because in so doing she became a living witness to the validity of God's principle of absolute unity in marriage. Two are to become one. In spite of alleged and apparent betrayal, she upheld the principle. The civil rights leader, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is admired for becoming a living witness to the validity of God's Word. Jesus said, "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you" (Matthew 5:43-44). And, because Dr. King became a living witness to the validity of God's principle of love, he, in my opinion as well as the opinion of many others, achieved greatness.
So, when human acts witness to the validity of a principle of God, the witness is to be both applauded and admired. The Apostle Paul says, "And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife." (I Corinthians 7:10-11).
We tend to acquiesce to the laws of the physical universe because we observe them in action everyday. Therefore, we don't normally jump out of windows five stories above the street because we believe the laws of physics (gravity, mass, distance, velocity, space) will operate to cause a disastrous conclusion of the unwise act. Similarly, we need to realize that the principles of the spiritual universe are every bit as valid as those of the physical universe. If God's spiritual principle tells us that jumping will be disastrous, we would do well to believe Him rather than perish in unbelief.
Hillary Rodham Clinton also became a witness to God's principle of peace. She did not seek to "save face" by publicly ridiculing Mr. Clinton. Therein she became a living witness to the validity of God's principle of peace. (And we must not forget that peace and righteousness are very close associates. Thus, the Bible says, "righteousness and peace have kissed each other" [Psalm 85:10]).
Peace is lacking in so many marriages today. Oftentimes the partners seem to be adversaries rather than friends. A spirit of opposition seems to have broken into many marriages, destroying peace, unity and happiness and eventually causing the marriages to suffer the tragedy of divorce. When virtually the whole world was expecting, and many were hoping for, the fight of the century to be staged at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC USA, one woman, in her decision to subordinate her own pride and become a living witness to the validity of the spiritual principle of God, became a peacemaker and possibly did more than any other person to rescue a failing presidency from immediate ruin. Hillary Rodham Clinton the peacemaker, America's example of a real peacemaker. About peacemakers Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." (Matthew 5:9).
Though I am not a political supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, (as a matter of fact I strongly disagree with many of their expressed political agendas); Yet, because of how Hillary Rodham Clinton handled the events which threatened to destroy her family in 1998, this composition is brought forth. For I am led to believe that had Hillary Rodham Clinton begun throwing clothes out of the windows at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, many other women worldwide would have felt more justified in committing the same unGodly act. Had she publicly destroyed the elements that remained in her family's peace module, many women worldwide would have felt justified in doing likewise.
Simply by following God's principle of peace in such a high profile scenario, Hillary Rodham Clinton became a peacemaker worldwide. Therefore, I, Clarence William Page, an ordained minister of the Gospel Of Jesus Christ, hereby recommend and/or nominate Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Written at Greensboro, North Carolina, November 22, 1998
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