Usual Suspects: NFL, CBS, Tebow, and NOW
Let’s just get it out there. I’m 100% pro-choice. Meaning I do not believe Roe v. Wade should be overturned and I think abortion should be legal. I’m 100% pro-life. Meaning I believe that life begins at conception and is a precious and intentional act of God. I take static from both sides of the Pro-Choice/Pro-Life campaigns. I’ve been told by Pro-Lifers that I’m not “voting my conscience” and I’ve let my Christianity become secularized (at best – I had one person call me a eugenicist.) Pro-Choicers vilify me because I am in...
Read MoreFeminism and the Burqa
This past summer France’s Prime Minister moved to outlaw the burqa – a head to toe covering worn by some Muslim women. The reason being that the garment is a “symbol of subservience, a sign of debasement” and that the women are “prisoners behind a screen.” In June of 2009 President Barack Obama visited France and voiced his opinion that to each country their own but “I will tell you that in the United States our basic attitude is, is that we’re not going to tell people what to wear.” Amen. Proponents of banning the burqa state that many...
Read MoreOf Course I’m a Feminist! Aren’t You?
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute…” –Rebecca West, The Clarion, 11/14/13 I’m always surprised when I hear a woman say “I’m not a feminist, but…” I’m not sure what monster some people think feminism is that they would annotate that they are not one. Somehow people confuse feminism with a political agenda or as an anti-femininity movement. Feminism is not anti-feminine....
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