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Sarah Palin: The New Face of Feminism

SARAH PALIN: THE NEW FACE OF FEMINISM



Since John McCain picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate (in a choice that, so far, I love), I've noticed several comments from Democratic women on political sites such as the following from CNN's Political Ticker:

"It really blows my mind that Palin, a woman, can be so opposed to women's rights. We are not talking about special rights for women, but equal rights . . . Opposing a woman's right to choose? I don't get her and she will not get my vote!"

Or, one, from a blog called Marginal Revolution that was more direct and to the point:

"Why would women vote for Palin? She's pro-life!"

It might surprise the authors of those comments that the VAST majority of women that I know personally are pro-life and will vote for McCain and Palin. Of course, I live in rural North Carolina, not Hollywood or Fifth Avenue (praise God from whom all blessings flow) but it gets my goat that these people act like all women in America must drink from the intellectually shallow well of abortion-centered feminism.  

Not only do I think these pro-choicers will be surprised how many women will vote for Palin, but I believe that they will be surprised when they wake up to find that pro-life women like my family and friends and Sarah Palin are not the dinosaurs of a by-gone generation, but that they are actually a new breed of intelligent, moral feminists who are advocates for the well-being of women which comes only from devotion to morality, and especially the sanctity of life.

Three reasons that I believe that pro-life women like my wife, my mother, and Sarah Palin are the new face of feminism:

1)  Real Feminists Protect the Unborn - I don't find it hypocritical that Sarah Palin is a woman who is against a woman's "right" to choose. I do find it hypocritical that Nancy PelosiHillary Clinton, and other assorted liberal women who call themselves proponents for women's rights will not protect an unborn baby girl's right to life. You can't build a great society which respects women on the corpses of little girls.

2)  Real Feminists Understand Men Have Reproductive Rights, Too - It has always been the contention of pro-choicers that because the baby resides in their body until it is born, they should have exclusive rights over whether they carry that baby to term or not.

"No man should have a right to tell a woman what to do with her body," a pro-choice friend of mine recently said. 

Her statement sounds very 1776 on the surface, doesn't it? Of course it misses the point of the abortion debate by a mile. It's not the woman's body that is the center of concern, it's the baby's. And unless the baby is named Yeshua bin Joseph, the baby didn't get in mommy's belly without a man being involved in the process at some point.

Pro-life women like Palin understand that since no baby is born without a father, the father should have a say in whether or not the baby is born. Most of them can't imagine loving a man enough to have sex with him, but not loving him enough to let a baby that bears part of his image live. They are strong women who have enough constitution about them to share both responsibility and privilege with the men in their lives. Which brings me to my next point:

3)  Real Feminists Believe in the Strength of 
Women - I have heard pro-choice mothers say that if their daughter got pregnant as a teenager, they would encourage them to have an abortion so that they wouldn't have to go through the horror of carrying an unwanted pregnancy, and so their future lifestyle would be easier. These people believe in the weakness of women. Real feminists believe that women are strong enough to be inconvenienced for nine months of their lives so that another human being may enjoy seventy or eighty years of life experiences through their sacrifice.  

They also believe that women are strong enough to take responsibility for their own actions, and sometimes even bear the evil actions of others for a time. They are strong enough to sacrifice. They are strong enough to take a tough path. They don't need an immoral way out. They don't need imaginary rights. All they need is the special strength with which they were created.

Much has been said about people putting cracks in things during this election run. Hillary famously claimed to put 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in the land. Sarah Palin now intends to break through it. I think there are cracks in something else. I think I hear the sound of tiny fissures forming on the surface of the colossus of old feminism. A new women's advocacy movement, more real and more powerful is lurking inside, trying to break through. I hope on November 4, 2008, our nation will set it free.

Go Sarah, and go life!
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Barack Obama: A to Z



Disclaimer: The information shared below is common knowledge. Don't believe it just because I said it. Check the facts for yourself. Verify for yourself. Then share with all the people that you know that will vote this year. They need to know.

Barack Obama: A to Z

A is for "Ayers, William." An unrepentant terrorist who was Obama's neighbor, who sat on a Chicago board with Obama, and whose house Obama used to host a fundraiser in 2005. Also a major campaign contributor for Barack.

B is for "Bitterness." Which, according to Obama, you might have in your heart if you believe in a higher power or have an affinity for the Second Amendment.

C is for "Chicago Political Machine." The corrupt political establishment which discovered Barack, developed him, and birthed and buttressed his political career. See also "crooked."

D is for "Definition of Wealth." Barack always says that he is going to raise taxes only on the rich. What's "rich" to Obama? Anyone who makes more than $32,500 a year. Merry Taxmas, everybody!

E is for "Earmarks." Obama says that he is against them. In fact, he hates them so much that he only requested $740 million of them during his three years in the Senate, and only voted against two anti-earmark amendments proposed by John McCain.

F is for "Flip-flopper." Which presidential candidate, in 2004, said this about the war in Iraq: "There's not much difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage. The difference, in my mind, is who's in position to execute." John McCain? Nope. Try Barack Hussein Obama.

G is for "George Obama." Obama's half-brother. Lives in Kenya. In a run down hut. On less than a dollar per month. So much for being our brother's keeper, huh, B. H. O.?

H is for "Homosexuality." According to Obama, Christians who stand against the practice are "inflicting pain on good people . . . who are often truer to Christ's message than those who condemn (the practice)." Sorry, Apostle Paul.

I is for "Infanticide." Barack supports letting babies who are born alive during botched abortions die without medical care. Obama bottled the "Born-Alive" bill that would have protected the babies up in committee and killed it. Even Barbara Boxer supported the bill. Truth: Obama is the most strident pro-abortion candidate for President EVER!

J is for "John McCain." He reached out to Barack in 2006 to get bipartisan ethics reform measures passed in the Senate. Barack originally agreed, and then buckled under party pressure and reneged. Then, he blamed MCAIN with stalling ethics reform. Bipartisanship, much, O?

K is for "Kickbacks." Nothing concrete here. It's just interesting that the hospital where Michelle Obama works nearly tripled her salary after Obama was elected to the Senate. It's further interesting that Obama started earmarking money for the hospital the same year.

L is for "Lifting Speeches." I bet you've forgotten about this one. I bet Gov. Deval Patrick hasn't. Plagiarist-in-Chief?

M is for "Messiah." Obama-lelujah? The triumph of the word over flesh? An enlightened being? It's not just God that we praise, but Obama, too? If he's elected, we'll be led by God? All these real statements about the Obamessiah might be funny, if they weren't so darned scary.

N is for "No." As in, I will meet with the leaders of hostile nations with NO preconditions. Even Tom Daschale, and Joe Biden said he was wrong on this one, but he hasn't backed down.

O is for "Original Intent." Obama doesn't believe that the Supreme Court Justices can discern it in the Constitution. The Constitution is "not static, but rather a living document, and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world." Sorry, founding fathers.

P is for "Palmer, Alice." Obama's friend, political mentor, and a legitimate candidate for the Illinois State legislature until Obama's campaign got her name removed due to clerical errors so that he could run unopposed.

Q is for "Quayle, Dan." Couldn't spell potato. However, as far as we know, he didn't ever say that he had visited 57 U.S. States, that his uncle liberated Auschwitz, or that he was glad his "Muslim faith" hadn't come under attack.

R is for "Richard M. Daley." Mayor of Chicago and one of the most crooked politicians of all time. Good thing Obama didn't endorse him after all his dirty dealings had come to light. Oh, he did? Never mind.

S is for "Sensible." As in, what did Barack Obama call the two Supreme Court justices that ruled AGAINST a law protecting children from pornographers? You guessed it. "Sensible."

T is for "Tax Credits." For those who pay no income tax. Barack's idea.

U is for "U.N. Tax." Nearly 1 penny on every dollar you make. Barack supports it. And it comes with many, many more strings attached. Kyoto Protocol, anyone?

V is for "Voted Present." Barack at the Illinois Senate. 130 times. Wait. No. That is an exaggeration. It was 129. "Barack, do you remember how you voted on the crucial issue of partial birth abortion?" "Yes, I believe I voted, "Present!"

W is for "Wright, Rev. Jeremiah." Barack's spiritual mentor for twenty years. Also, "wrong" when he says the government invented AIDS to kill people of color, that Christianity and whiteness are opposites, and that white people must begin to hate their whiteness and ask, "How can we become black?" Twenty years, people.

X is for "Xanadu." The word means "pleasure palace." When the Obamas bought a house for $300,000 less than market value and convicted real estate crook Antoin Rezko's wife bought the adjoining property, Obama might not have had a Xanadu, but he did have a big back yard. Then Obama went to work using his power to help Rezko make even more money - until Rezzy got convicted on 16 criminal counts, that is.

Y is for "Yousef, Ahmed." Hamas spokesman, who spoke thusly: "Hamas supports Barack Obama's foreign policy ideas."

Z is for "Zero." Yes, zero executive experience. Also, the number of guns that Barack Obama said that he wants American civilians to own. Also, the number of times he has shown himself to be a true reformer.

Zero is also the number of times after my research that I will vote for him in November. Also, the number of times I hope that anyone who reads this will vote for him in November. Can we really trust our future to a man with this kind of past?
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