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I guess it’s kind of a no-brainer to observe that today’s GOP touts a group of candidates in the Clown Car tripping over one another to say who is the most womb-controlling of the bunch to woo the batsh*t voter base. It’s another thing to actually have staffers for candidates actually affirming that Michele Bachmann shouldn’t have even had a seat in the Clown Car because God gave her a va-jay-jay. But here you have it. (Think Progress):
In an article about the reasons Rep. Michele Bachmann’s campaign fizzled, the Des Moines Register points to “sexism among conservatives,” singling out an offensive email written by a staffer to Rick Santorum:
Rival presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s Iowa coalitions director, Jamie Johnson, sent out an email saying that children’s lives would be harmed if the nation had a female president. [...]
“The question then comes, ‘Is it God’s highest desire, that is, his biblically expressed will, … to have a woman rule the institutions of the family, the church, and the state?’ ” Johnson’s email said.
Notably, Santorum hasn’t commented on this bit of business yet, but folks in the Bachmann camp are talking about the rampant misogyny in the far-right evangelical community that helped do in Mrs. Bachmann, with the help of Rick Santorum’s surrogates:
Peter Waldron, who lives in Florida and worked nationally Iowa as Bachmann’s “faith outreach coordinator,” says that “misogyny was a serious issue in Iowa” — and argues that “medieval attitudes” are to blame, in part, for his candidate’s weak showing.
He is today demanding an apology from Santorum over a “sexist strategy” in the state, sending a press release only hours before Santorum won the support of a key meeting of national evangelical leaders.
Citing Johnson’s email, Waldron makes this charge: “Evangelical surrogates [for Santorum] promoted the idea that a female cannot be an elected official or a commander-in-chief.”
Wow. Them’s fightin’ words, Little Ricky. Care to respond?
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Bachmann’s campaign should have failed because she’s an odious human being with all the moral stature of the slime from a garden slug, not because she’s a woman.
Of course she would, KinVA, but what if she had been 1) sane 2) had stature within the party. It sounds like the GOP Talibangelicals would have deep-sixed any woman trying for the top slot.
The religious freaks in the GOP are misogynists??!!! OMG!!!1!1 LOL!!
On the other hand, it’s going to be a lot of fun watching the Republican party implode.
1 Timothy 2:12
New International Version (©1984)
I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.
New Living Translation (©2007)
I do not let women teach men or have authority over them. Let them listen quietly.
English Standard Version (©2001)
I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.
King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
The Bible seems pretty clear on this, It shouldn’t be a surprise.
Well yes, but how could you think otherwise? How many of these religions have any female leadership? How many of these religions have any non-white leadership?
President Carter probably said it best:
http://www.blogher.com/frame.php?url=http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/losing-my-religion-for-equality-20090714-dk0v.html?page=1
…my decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when the convention’s leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be “subservient” to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service.
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths. Nor, tragically, does its influence stop at the walls of the church, mosque, synagogue or temple. This discrimination, unjustifiably attributed to a Higher Authority, has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women’s equal rights across the world for centuries.
This letter convinced me that I should no longer listen to large religions that don’t have Trans, Intersex, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and multiple ethnic and skin-color minorities in their leadership. It strongly indicates current and/or recent prejudice against those groups, and I see no reason to listen to such prejudiced groups.
1 Timothy is largely a letter about the author’s preferred structure for a church. As is evident from 1 Timothy 2:8-15, the author was rather sexist.
Judges 4-5 takes a different view; it does not seem that Deborah needed to be silent or subservient
Judges 4:4-9 New International version:
4 Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading[a] Israel at that time. 5 She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided. 6 She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor. 7 I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’”
8 Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.”
9 “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh.
I think that it’s funny that these guys think that a monthly rush of hormones makes women irrational but a constant flood of hormones for them is just fine. If it’s true for one, shouldn’t it be true for the other? It would be too unimaginable for them to realize that it isn’t true for either. I’ll bet that a lot of them think that men and women don’t have the same number of ribs either. As for Michelle Bachmann, I agree with KinVA@1. She’s creepy and she’s kooky, etc.