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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Did someone ask about misogynist pro-life loons?
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- References: <1992Aug27.151157.180@pwcs.stpaul.gov> <nyikos.715285141@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Sep1.134433.12701@pwcs.stpaul.gov>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 21:08:10 GMT
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- In <1992Sep1.134433.12701@pwcs.stpaul.gov> chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
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- >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- >> chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
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- >>> Just in case there was any doubt about the mindset of some of the
- >>> Republican Party's leading lights, Pat Robertson recently wrote a
- >>> letter criticizing the Equal Rights Amendment, suggesting that
- >>> feminists want women to kill their children and practice witchcraft.
-
- >> Interesting use of the word "suggesting." Just how strongly did he
- >> suggest it? Robertson is much too astute to make blanket statements
- >> like the one you say he suggested.
-
- >Funny you should say that. I came across the AP report about an hour
- >later and posted it. He said pretty close to the following:
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- > "It is about a movement that encourages women to leave their
- > husbands, kill their children, destroy capitalism, practice
- > witchcraft and become lesbians." [quoted from memory]
-
- Hmmm. Maybe I gave Robertson more credit than he deserves. On the other
- hand, the quote does not say which "movement" he is referring to. From
- the wording, I would guess that he is talking about a book, and what it
- is about, and my one remaining question (unless the answer raises new ones)
- is whether this movement is the whole feminist movement, or some subset
- of it, like Wicca.
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