Equating Religion With Misogyny Is Bad for Women and Bad for Religion
Yesterday, Congressional Republicans organized a public hearing on women’s reproductive health.
No women were called on to testify.
No doctors were called on to testify.
And one of the old men called on to testify has vowed to never, ever have sex.
This ain’t about religion. Anyone trying to sell you that line is either lying to you or else is so profoundly confused himself that he cannot distinguish between his religion and his own fear/loathing/resentment of women.
The attempt to say this is about “religious liberty” or “freedom of conscience” equates religion with misogyny. It says those two things are intrinsically inseparable. That’s bad for women and it’s bad for religion — redefining religious belief as the desire to control and dominate women.
Those men in that picture there are not religious leaders. They are religious distorters of religion. They have declared themselves to be the enemies of religion — the crooked men who would twist the church and the faith into their own crooked image, all in the name of “religious liberty.”
Frock that.
Those who love the church cannot like these men or allow them to succeed. Those who love women cannot like these men or allow them to succeed. Those are the two biggest reasons why I do not like these men and why I think it’s very, very important that they not be allowed to succeed.