I suspect that advocates of
religious patriarchy perpetuate the narrative of a «
radical feminist
agenda» because it is easier to dismiss calls for equality when they appear to come from the «outside» than when they come from a response to gospel itself.
«I know enough that you can not have the advancing of the
radical homosexual
agenda and
religious liberty at the same time, in the same nation,» he preached.
He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's
agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a
radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the
religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»