>> It's amazing that nobody on this purportedly 'left' e-list has
>> yet to criticize organized religion on the ground that it has
>> and still fosters sexual repression + subordination of women &
>> sexual dissidents (including 'abortion ambivalence' but of
>> course not limited to it).
hi yoshie....
you're just gonna love the front page of the NYTimes today:
<The Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest Protestant denomination and an increasingly conservative force among American religious organizations, amended its essential statement of beliefs today to include a declaration that a woman should 'submit herself graciously' to her husband ....>
i wont quote the actual wording of the declaration, as it uses the name of the lORD in vain...
interestingly, there was no mention of kinky sex either in the declaration or the news converage..
speaking to your comment on modernity in America:
<R. Albert Mohler Jr, president of Southenr Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville KY said the amendment was based on a Southern Baptist belief in the literal interpretation of Scripture. The submission of wives to their husbands, Mr. Mohler said, is "not a modern idea", but "is clearly revealed in Scripture."
Speaking of the amendment, he said "the secular world may hear it as strange, but it is, we believe, God's pattern".>
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