During my undergrad years at U Mass Dartmouth I had the great privilege of being mentored by Dr Juli Parker, who was director of the Women’s center, now called the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality. It was there, more than 20 years ago, that I was shown a small piece of what so many women face in this country. As the only football player volunteer at the center, I observed two very different worlds. The football locker room, with men saying some pretty awful things, and Dr Parker explaining the truth around sexual assault, abortion rights and the regular fight for equality that women face every day.
I felt a strong calling to ministry and I attended seminary, which, oddly enough, was an environment that sounded a little like the football locker room. I was hoping to change minds within the evangelical church. I failed, and 20 years later the evangelical church is stronger and more committed to prohibiting women the most basic right to decide what happens to their own bodies.
Evangelicals won a great and terrible victory with […]
Buddhism should also be added to the list.
Killing anything is prohibited.
It seems most major religions are male dominated, and have different rules for men than women.
I’ve never understood why Evangelical Christians always seem to be right-wingers. Their talk sounds vicious to me. “Blind guides,” I like that term. However, I’m wary of the suggestion to “pack the court.”. I’d say it could get “packed” the other way just as easily at some later date. No way of being in the world can be locked in forever and for all time. On the other hand, wrongs tend to be righted eventually, woefully late in some cases, but eventually oppression loses. In the meantime, we’ll need to express dissent wherever there is such anti-women legislation.