the 60s and 70s

In America during the 60s and 70s, no one would argue that we as a country went through a remarkable transition. Having just come out of a war here and there, giving new freedoms to our own citizens, and social changes such as clothing and education - everything changed.

Do you remember Victoria Woodhull? yea, me neither. But she's credited with saying, "Yes, I am a free lover! I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may love, to love as long as, or as short a period as I can, to change that love every day if I please!"

One leader in this movement admired and respected Woodhull for her "forthrightness," while one other leader felt similarly she said that she thought that giving Woodhull attention would distract from the general purpose of the movement.

The first leader, Stanton, also stated about their movement, "Nothing that has ever emanated from the brain of man is too sacred to be revised and corrected," citing that the Constitution has been amended, the English language is in constant revision, and "now the time has come to amend and modify canon laws, prayer-books, liturgies and Bibles...Woman's imperative duty at this hour is to demand a thorough revision of creeds and codes, Scriptures and constitutions." Revealing a completely misunderstood view of what it means to be "Scripture". She stated that Charles Finney's way of saving souls probably did more harm than good, sending her nightmares and fearing for her soul. Her younger counter-part and co-leader, Anthony, was raised by Quaker farmers, but she asserts that they never took the Bible literally.

And its for this reason that I no longer admire these women. Yes, they brought us suffrage. But no, I disagree with their reasoning that women and men are permitted the same allowances. Men were created for one use, while women for another. It isn't that one is better than the other; it is simply that one is a hammer and another a chisel. Their jobs are different, not equal, not always comparable. And Scripture, it did NOT emanate from the brain of man.

I just read "Not For Ourselves Alone" by Ward and Burns. I liked these women before I read the book...oh well.