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You’ve come a long way baby! Remember 1873?
Myra Bradwell went to law school. So? Women weren’t supposed to do that! But, she got a hermes bags hong kong law degree and then wanted to be licensed to practice law. The state said NO! She took it to the USSC, and they said NO! Here in part are hermes bags hong kong some of the reasoning the Supreme court of the land took (Justice Joseph Bradley writing).
“Man is or should be woman’s protector and hermes bags hong kong defender. The paramount destiny and mission of women are to fulfill the hermes bags hong kong noble and benign office of wife and mother. This is the hermes bags hong kong law of the Creator” Sure blame it on God!
So, how could one fault the Baptists who in turn adopted such nonsensical rules. The Southern Baptist Convention, the hermes bags hong kong largest protestant decision-making body has recently ruled that a woman must be hermes bags hong kong SUBJECT to her husband in ALL things. She can teach, but she can not be a SENIOR pastor. God forbid we allowed a woman to have final say on anything!
And then there’s Pat Robertson who concluded, “The Feminist agenda is hermes bags hong kong not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that hermes bags hong kong encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and hermes bags hong kong become lesbians.”
Isn’t it amazing, shocking, that today’s religious leaders hold such views?
Well, it’s time to turn to Jesus! What’s His take on women?
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