I was about to head to bed after the State of the Union last night, when I heard a voice coming from my television that stopped me in my tracks. I didn’t know who was speaking, but it really didn’t matter—I recognized the voice. It was so many voices from my childhood. It was so many Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. It was potlucks, and baby showers, and graduations, and birthday parties.
It was Senator Katie Britt using her well-practiced fundie baby voice.
I threw so many folks for a loop last year when I discussed the voice in a video. I used my “training” as a former Evangelical, a Southern Baptist, to describe the breathy cadence and the soft, child-like high pitch. Folks outside of Fundamentalist culture had never heard the term—they just knew the voice made them uncomfortable.
I know that voice well…in fact I can’t shake it myself. It was engrained in every woman I knew from church and every time I speak about it, folks will point out that […]
Her religion clearly came through when there should be a separation of church and state. Somehow, Republicans don’t honor that. But the worst part beside poor acting, were the lies that constantly came from her mouth! One after another lying about the good things that have come from Bide4n’s Administration. When someone who is expected to actually point out why Trump would be better, and lies about the previous administration, all trust is lost! Hopefully, this will change some Trump minds, but not likely. Terri Quint