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Showing Original Post only (View all)Male Judges & Legislators: Using the Bible to Subjugate Women [View all]
1. In 1872 Myra Bradwell decided she wanted to practice law. The Illinois Supreme Court told her she was unfit b/c she was a woman. Part of the decision reads: "God designed the sexes to occupy different spheres of action and that it belonged to men to make, apply, and execute the laws." In upholding this decision SCOTUS used such terms as "axiomatic truth", "divine ordinance", "paramount destiny", and "law of the Creator."
2. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote: "The Bible and the church have been the greatest block in the way of her development." "...Bibles, prayer books, catechisms, liturgies, the canon law and church creeds and organizations...all of these alike have been hostile and still are, to her freedom and development."
3. In 1994, Trump said he thought women should stay in the home because working is unattractive.
4. Mike Pence asserts "marriage is ordained by God" and shames working mothers who make their children "daycare kids".
5. Rep. Stevan Pearce of New Mexico cited the bible to argue that "the wife is to voluntarily submit" to her husband. He wrote this in his 2013 memoir "Just Fly the Plane, Stupid." "The wife's submission is...self-imposed as a matter of obedience to the Lord...".
6. Mike Huckabee signed a statement of faith that a wife must "submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband."
Abigail Adams in a letter to John Adams, 1776:
"I long to hear that you have declared an independency--and by the way in the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could."