I'm doing this because
I think equality for women is the transformative issue for London and I think any candidate has to take it seriously and I would be delighted if they all stole our policies.
Not exact matches
I'm a progressive Christian and liberal on 90 % of political issues including marriage
equality and
women's rights; however, I
think that this should be seen as a tipping point
for Christians everywhere.
♦ Then there's Sandy Newman, president of Voices
for Progress, writing to John Podesta in 2012 when the HHS mandate was announced: «This whole controversy with the bishops opposing contraceptive coverage even though 98 % of Catholic
women (and their conjugal partners) have used contraception has me
thinking... There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect
for gender
equality in the Catholic church.
Think of Galileo, the abolitionists, or those that worked
for women's
equality.
While Knust does a great job deconstructing our idealized notions that the Bible unilaterally supports the nuclear family, abstinence before marriage, and
women's
equality, I
think she takes some of her own conclusions a bit too far at times —
for example, suggesting that David and Jonathan were definitely lovers.
However, the change in
women's attitudes and practices will be equally profound,
for there is no reason to
think that with the increasing
equality of
women we can assume that
women will «naturally» want to be mothers.
I completely agree, especially with the idea that society has to be more accepting of men as parents; I don't
think it's possible
for women to have
equality in traditionally male - dominated spheres unless men also have
equality in traditionally female - dominated spheres.
I
think choosing
women who earn six figures as an essential criteria may be the way forward
for men in general — and anyone earning less can be called «immature» (
equality rocks).
«You would
think that a governor who prides himself on promoting
women's
equality and rights would have responded immediately to the many cries
for help,» Liggieri said.
«But I
think that that generation of Conservative
women, in whom I include Theresa May, they had no instinct of the fight
for equality and the determination to make change.
Maria Miller, Culture Secretary and minister
for equalities, may well have our sympathy, then, in urging the Church of England to
think again on
women bishops.
As
for «advancing the position of
women in these situations», I
think with this comment (which you have repeated several times) you are blurring the lines between
womens rights and
women's
equality on the one hand and
women's interests on the the other.