Politics, Motherhood, and Politics

Silencing Women The news and social media are alive about Republican Senators “shutting up” Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was voicing her opinion about Senator Jeff Sessions’ nomination for Attorney General.  Elizabeth Warren was reading the words of Coretta Scott King, who voiced her opposition of Sessions to a federal judgeship. Not only did McConnell shut Warren up, but he tried silencing King’s words beyond the grave.  His words, "She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted," are now considered a rallying cry for us.  The fact she and Mrs. King were silenced in the company of mostly men is nothing new to many of us. It took until 1920 for women to vote under the 19th Amendment.  The fact that no woman, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, sexual orientation, or class, we were not given a political voice until it was deemed appropriate by the men in our society. The fight for the right to vote began in 1878...

Marching Toward Theocracy I know everyone has heard of the First Amendment of the Constitution: “ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”  The part I really want to concentrate on is the “establishment of religion” part.  I really believe in the concept of freedom of religion, but I also agree that this meant freedom from religion.  I know that a lot of my “conservative” or “religious” fellow Americans have a very different view, most insist that our founding fathers meant to establish a “Christian” nation.   My response is but the first words are “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,”  so would the founding fathers put this in the constitution just to fuck with us?  (I apologize for the v...