Last weekend's massive Washington, D.C. rally for the Promise Keepers--the reactionary Christian men's movement whose basic premise is that men should rule the world, and women, but do so in a more Godly way--was treated with amazing deference and admiration by the country's media. (By contrast, recall the furor stirred up by Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March, an event with a far less sweeping political agenda.)

For a more accurate assessment of what the Promise Keepers are about, one need turn only to the Bible. PK called their event "Stand In The Gap: A Sacred Assembly." Where does the unusual phrase "Stand In The Gap" come from? Ezekial 22:30 tells us that God "sought for a man among them" who would "stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none. Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them: I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God." Translation: obey me, or I'll kick your ass. An attitude Godly men everywhere, presumably, are encouraged to emulate.

--Geov Parrish