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Walleye
(31,068 posts)Schumer should be retiring before too long maybe shell make it to the Senate. That was a great speech. Worthy of Teddy Kennedy
EnergizedLib
(1,899 posts)Just like the only time states rights are invoked is to hurt people. I dont see any 10th Amendment mouth breathers pushing back against a proposed national abortion ban.
Magoo48
(4,721 posts)Solly Mack
(90,789 posts)Emile
(22,992 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)mollie8
(162 posts)This made cold chills when I heard it. Not often moved so deeply.
Sky Jewels
(7,154 posts)Sadly, in this country, religion is used primarily as a tool of oppression to further the patriarchy and male supremacy. The very framing of the major monotheisms are very anti-women -- all the major characters in the Mesopotamia-originated mythologies that still have widespread cultural acceptance are male (Yahweh/God/Allah, Jesus, Mohammad, Moses, etc.), and women are depicted as lessers, not worthy of power in any church or in any part of society. When people talk about wanting "religious freedom" it's almost always a code for wanting to continue to oppress women (and gay people) without paying any consequences.