Opponents were accusing them of being man-haters, socialists, atheists, and dykes, among other things. In the late 1960s and ’70s, the overwhelmingly white, straight, middle-class-and-up leaders of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and other mainstream feminist organizations didn’t want to hear it. Need I say that many feminists don’t practice witchcraft, oppose capitalism, or become lesbians, but over the decades the feminist movement has encouraged women to explore and develop religious traditions that don’t put men first pay closer attention to how current economic systems support patriarchy and white supremacy (and vice versa) and come out and/or become more visible as lesbians. To which my stock response has long been “I never had a husband to leave, ‘kill your children’ is total BS, and the last three are fine with me.” 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.” He’s the white televangelist who very famously said that “the feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. True, without context, it does sound right out of the Pat Robertson quote book.
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