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- From: nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos)
- Subject: Re: Did someone ask about misogynist pro-life loons?
- Message-ID: <nyikos.715468405@milo.math.scarolina.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug27.151157.180@pwcs.stpaul.gov> <nyikos.715285141@milo.math.scarolina.edu> <1992Sep1.185546.10262@wdl.loral.com>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 21:13:25 GMT
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- In <1992Sep1.185546.10262@wdl.loral.com> bard@cutter.ssd.loral.com (J H Woodyatt) writes:
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- >nyikos@math.scarolina.edu (Peter Nyikos) writes:
- ># chrisl@stpaul.gov (Chris A Lyman) writes:
- ># >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.
-
- >From the Associated Press story:
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- >> But Mr. Robertson's letter, distributed late last month to supporters
- >> of the evangelical organization Christian Coalition, described the
- >> proposal as part of a "feminist agenda" that "is not about equal
- >> rights for women."
- >>
- >> Instead, the letter said, "it is about a socialist, anti-family,
- >> political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands,
- >> kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and
- >> become lesbians."
-
- An agenda that happens to be part of feminism is not the same thing
- as feminism. I'm still somewhat in the dark as to what Robertson
- was actually referring to.
-
- Peter Ny.
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