A TLC Train Wreck

It mostly sucks to watch, but you can't help but stare. Like looking at the sun I guess, though I think I made need new retinas now. Behold, the Today Show interview with Kate Gosslin:

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The whole thing is like watching a train wreck not because this is the first Christian marriage to spilt up (and I doubt it's even the first Christian 'sextupleted' marriage to disintegrate). Three reasons why it is all so awful:

1. Divorce is always tragic. Kate is in pain, their kids, if not already in pain, will be soon.

2. Christians suck the most not when they sin, but when the reject the fact that they are Christians. What Jon and Kate are dispensing to the media is mostly crap and, especially, not Christian. Moral niceties reign. "It's for the kids." "We're doing this out of love." But not Jesus, not his gospel. That is breathtaking. As I watched, I tried to will her to say something about her commitment to God. Commitment to her kids is fine, but it is no commitment if it is not based in her love for Jesus. And so not only do we have to watch 'Christians' publicly sin and fail, we have to watch them deny their sin and creator.

3. It is likely that Jon's 'path' is the desire to have an open marriage. Awesome. Good job, dude. Yet an another husband and wife combo where the wife wears the pants (or, not Ephesians 5:22-33). Of course he was emasculated. Of course she dominated him. That will make any marriage an unhappy one. So the obvious choice is not to actually flip the roles. That would be ridiculous! Have an affair!

I did have a thought the other day, about how this could all turn out well. On the backdrop of duplicitous sin and failure, Christ's redemption stands out brightly. Wouldn't it be something if they came back together, a repentant Jon and Kate, ready to base their happiness not in themselves or their kids or other women, but in Christ who died for them? Thankfully, that is not pie in the sky. I'll wait patiently for that Today Show interview.