There is one aspect of the Republican ticket this election cycle, that I am pleased with. They have chosen a woman for the ticket. Since they have let her say virtually nothing unscripted, we don't know what this means as far as the issues go. Time will tell. The fact that they have chosen a woman, a quarter century after the Democrats did so, proves that change is seeping, ever so slowly, into their camp. Not only have they chosen a woman for one of the top two spots but a premenopausal woman with several children.
No one in their camp is suggesting that she should be staying at home with the children. Nobody is suggesting that she should subordinate herself to the desires of her husband. Nobody is saying she is not prepared by God for participation in the affairs of the nation and the World. While they still make these statements about women, generally, they have been silent about the case of Sarah Palin. This is a huge change, from men who still do not allow women leadership roles in their families, businesses or churches.
If nothing else comes out of the Palin nomination, I hope that it spurs other women to come forward and participate in prominent roles at the very top of leadership in the secular and religious life in America. If women were running the government, fewer children would go to bed hungry, in crime plagued neighborhoods, without equal educational opportunities. If women were running the Catholic church, fewer children would be sodomized by priests and most priests would not be homosexual pedophiles.
Maybe, after this, James Dobson and his mealy mouthed brethren, will keep their pie holes shut about the proper place of women in society.
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