Women with Opinions

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Critiques the Christian Church

“For the supposed crimes of heresy and witchcraft, hundreds of women endured such persecutions and tortures that the most stolid historians are said to have wept in recording them; and no one can read them to-day but with a bleeding heart. And, as the Christian Church grew stronger, woman's fate grew more helpless. Even the Reformation and Protestantism brought no relief, the clergy being all along their most bitter persecutors, the inventors of the most infernal tortures.

National Day of Reason Replaces National Day of Prayer. Thank God.

Evangelicals, as we know, are hell-bent on turning the good, old USA into a Christian Nation, and they've made great headway since they installed George W. Bush in the White House.  Take, for instance, the Christian conservatives' campaign to stamp out sex among teenagers.

Thanks to $1 billion dollars spent on their abstinence-only sex education classes, a quarter of teenagers in this country (and half of African-American teenagers) are now infected with sexually transmitted diseases.  Ignorance, it turns out, is not always bliss.