History of Feminism
Related: About this forumThis is what we're up against.
These hate groups are uniting and delivering their hate filled message to churches based on the ethnic make up of the church:
The fanatical fundamentalists are at it again. Not to be outdone by Catholic bishops clamoring for ever-increasing fetal protections, Flip Benhams Operation Save America has teamed up with Go Stand Speak, LifeLink, Jeremiah Cry Ministries, Personhood USA, and Repent America to make five statesArkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyomingabortion refuges.
But lest you write off these protests as same-old/same-old, please know that theyre not. OSAs latest effort comes with a newsworthy difference--scope. The group has not only done outreach to legislators in each targeted state, theyve also contacted 950 evangelical churches to solicit financial and on-the-ground support.
Their appeal to largely African-American congregations included a copy of Maafa 21, a 137-minute documentary produced by Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics Inc. in 2009. The film presents abortion and birth control as central components of a Caucasian plot to annihilate people of color; it further lambasts Planned Parenthood as a purveyor of racism and hatred of the poor. Predominantly white churches received The Abortion Matrix, a 10-part, 195-minute film, released in 2011, that posits the reproductive justice movement as a satanic cult comprised of witches and goddess worshippers.
Luminaries of the feminist spirituality movement including Starhawk, Zsuzsanna Budapest, and Ginette Paris are slammed, not only as man-haters, but also as proponents of infanticide. As the film unfolds the kind of music typically heard in campy horror flicks envelops the viewer. Throughout, Holmberg describes a litany of evil. Looking the viewer straight in the eye, its as if he wants to share a dastardly secret. Yes, he assures viewers, the goddess Aphrodite demands child sacrificeor, in todays parlance, abortion. Close-ups of a Florida clinicians bumper stickerIn Goddess We Trustis, he says, proof of this phenomenon.
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/03/01/stoking-fire-anti-choice-activists-have-begun-to-unite
I predict it's only a matter of time before they start killing abortion providers again.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)it's only a matter of time before they start killing abortion providers again. I doubt they have ever stopped making plans for their next victim. It is scary.
Hatchling
(2,323 posts)As a disabled senior, lesbian, pagan feminist, I am so totally screwed in today's society.
Is it any wonder I am so damned depressed?
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)and fearful. The hate out there is funded by powerful crazy right wingers who don't care who gets hurt in their "war for morality". These are scary times.
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)because sometimes it's all overwhelming and I have to take a break and let my spirit rest and recharge.
I think anyone NOT depressed over what is happening is not fully aware, is in denial.
boston bean
(36,228 posts)I abhor the use of religion for evil. I really do.
It's how you go the salem witch trials.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)to the Salem witch trials, I'm sure if they had their way,we would be proceeding to something very similar.Good analogy.
just1voice
(1,362 posts)The only way to get churches to stop being hate groups is to remove their tax-free status and to start arresting them. Sounds extreme but America is dealing with extremists.