“Pathetic, inducing sorrow” is about all The Motley Monk can say concerning University of Pennsylvania Professor Anthea Butler’s suggestion this past weekend that past abortions and single parenthood should be marketed as positive elements in women’s political campaigns.
In an MSNBC interview, CNSNews reports Butler—an associate professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania—saying:
You have to be able to push past this, because these stories are not liabilities, they are assets, to speak that other women, whatever your experience has been, whether you’ve had an abortion, you’re a single parent, however those things are, we have to make them pluses, and not minuses.
Insofar as Butler is concerned, the problem is a consequence of those male politicians who make it difficult for women to participate in the political process. Professor Butler noted:
…I’m thinking about what happened with [Texas Gov.] Rick Perry making that snide comment about Wendy [Davis]…and I think that’s what keeps women away from doing this. Just like we did “Souls to the Polls” in 2012, we need to do women to the polls, and women to run in 2014.
Imagine that! To win office, women politicians should boast about abortions and divorces.
The culture of death is alive and well. What used to be considered evil is touted as virtue. What used to be considered virtuous is considered an embarrassment.
This, from a professor of religious studies at an Ivy League university.
“Uterus, to the polls!”, the show’s hostess Melissa Harris-Perry, enthusiastically interjected.
All The Motley Monk can say is “Pathetic. Inducing sorrow.”
To read the CNSNews article, click on the following link:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/u-penn-religious-studies-prof-having-abortion-plus-female-politicians#sthash.TrrbW3gv.dpuf
The seven “sacraments” of their secular culture are abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminazism, and genetic experimentation and mutilation. These things they unabashedly espouse, profess and promote.” – Bishop Doran, Rockford
And, it’s all propaganda all the time.
Instapundit: “Sorry sinners, what you’re saying is only secular truth, filled with worldly facts. The higher truth is ‘social justice truth,’ which is any narrative that advances the democrat agenda.”
” And, it’s all propaganda all the time. ”
Hometown notice on a local online news site of the necessity to apply for a permit to be able to ‘walk’ in support of DOMA caught my eye. Ostrich-ization.
What would be done with this list of granted permits?
Also, sadly, I overheard scoffing in the narthex during the past fortnight.
There are members of the academy who seem to be begging for the demise of their faculties and disciplines.
Her “rate my professor” comments from students are instructive:
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1551168
She is supposedly a “practicing” Catholic:
http://www.hlntv.com/video/2013/02/11/will-next-pope-be-more-liberal
One recalls « le manifeste des 343 salopes » [Manifesto of the 343 Sluts] that made such a stir, when it was published in Le Nouvel Observateur on 5 April 1971.
The Motley Monk is always correct! Bravo! Women of virtue????? Bahhhhh! Mary is crying rivers of tears for her gender run amok!
Butler—an associate professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies…
I don’t think anyone here needed to read any further in order to know what was about to come next. If the sentence had instead read something like, “Butler – a religious African-American woman”, I would have been far more hopeful, and far less cynical, in anticipating whatever she had to say. Sadly, my cynicism was well-placed.
I suppose I should be grateful that Butler is pulling double duty in Religious and Africana Studies — otherwise, the higher education system would need to allocate funds for two of her.
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The Motely Monk is spot on – as always He speaks Veritas!
“Hometown notice on a local online news site of the necessity to apply for a permit to be able to ‘walk’ in support of DOMA caught my eye. Ostrich-ization.
What would be done with this list of granted permits?” Disenfranchisement of the First Amendment: “or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” without the obstruction of “permits”… as though the innocent citizens had already committed a crime where no crime was committed.
Professor Butler is back in the news; this time to rebuke a higher office than that of the Texas governor:
Irate Ivy League professor calls God ‘a white racist god’ after Zimmerman verdict
Between Texas feminists endorsing Satan, and Ivy League professors laying the groundwork for a recall, the Almighty will no doubt have his work cut out for Him the next time He comes up for re-election.