Apparently the fundamentalist GOP MEN of Santorum, Rush and Newt's ilk are desperate men because they know "If they can’t keep women in line, it’s all over" for them. (A woman can only hope!)
These guys (and apparently many christian women) believe shit like this:
15 Ways the Bible Is Used by Christians and the GOP to Control and Malign Women
Fundamentalists believe the Bible is the literally perfect word of the Almighty, essentially dictated by God to the writers. To believe that the Bible is the literally perfect word of God is to believe that women are tainted seductresses who must be controlled by men.
-Listen to early church father Tertullian: “You [woman] are the devil’s gateway: you are the unsealer of that (forbidden) tree: you are the first deserter of the divine law: you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack. You destroyed so easily God’s image, man. On account of your desert—that is, death—even the Son of God had to die.”
Or take it from reformer John Calvin: “Woman is more guilty than man, because she was seduced by Satan, and so diverted her husband from obedience to God that she was an instrument of death leading to all perdition. It is necessary that woman recognize this, and that she learn to what she is subjected; and not only against her husband. This is reason enough why today she is placed below and that she bears within her ignominy and shame.”
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And here are 15 Biblical idiotic TRUTHS against women:
1. A wife is a man’s property:
2. Daughters can be bought and sold:
3. A raped daughter can be sold to her rapist:
4. Collecting wives and sex slaves is a sign of status
5. Used brides deserve death:
6. Women, but only virgins, are to be taken as spoils of war:
7. Menstruating women are spiritually unclean:
8. A woman is twice as unclean after giving birth to a girl as to a boy:
9. A woman’s promise is binding only if her father or husband agrees:
10. Women should be seen and not heard:
11. Wives should submit to their husband’s instructions and desires:
12. In case you missed that submission thing...:
13. More submission – and childbearing as a form of atonement
14. Women were created for men:
15. Sleeping with women is dirty:
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Fundamentalists are fighting desperately to hang on to certainties and privileges they once saw as an Abrahamic birthright. If they can’t keep women in line, it’s all over. The future ends up in the hands of cultural creatives, scientists, artists, inquiring minds, and girls. It’s horrifying.
I'm amazed how quiet so many christian men and women on the right and left are about so much of this war on women. I wonder why more aren't rocking the boat?
One of the most powerful women of the world says:
Hillary Clinton: It’s Time to ‘Shape Our Destinies’
As secretary of State, Clinton has made the issue of girls and women worldwide a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy. “It’s not just the right thing to do, it is a strategic imperative,” she said. She wondered aloud “why extremists are always focusing on women—the reason is a mystery to me,” but it’s the same the world over, no matter what the ideology. “They all want to somehow control … the decisions we make about our own body. It’s hard to believe even here at home we have to stand up for women’s rights and reject efforts to marginalize any one of us.”