I live in a very mixed ethnic society. I have one student whose mother was murdered by her father-in-law; this mother is one of many women murdered routinely by family members in our city. I have another student who was whisked overseas to be married at the age of 14. I have seen other things I wish I had not.
But I feel proud to know that a Vancouver beauty queen is heading up this campaign.
- This website was created to spread information about the 19-year old Iranian girl Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, who was previously sentenced to death by hanging for killing a man who ambushed and tried to rape her. At the end of May, the Iranian head of Judiciary overturned her death sentence, and sent the case back to a lower court. Nazanin's re-trial ended on Jan 10 2007.
So I was just bowled over to find out that the plight of one adult female in combat fatigues has influenced certain so-called Christian males to make common cause with the president of Iran. One adult woman decides to exercise her contitutional freedom and some people forget that 9 year old girls can be legally married and impregnated according to the laws of this regime.
No wonder Catherine Booth makes more sense to me as a preacher and defender of women than this bunch of chumps who wish to set themselves up as models of male leadership.
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Well said, Suzanne! I would not encourage the mother of a toddler to serve in the armed forces. But if that is what she chooses to do, then that is her right (though it is not a constitutional right here in the UK), and it is not for President Ahmadinejad, Justin Taylor or Al Mohler, or even Kathleen Parker, to deny her that freedom. Let these people be convicted by the words which Mohler quotes from The Scotsman: "the only thing the saga and the skewed response to it demonstrates is how entrenched paternalistic and sexist attitudes are among male opinion-formers", in the USA as well as in Iran. I would only add that the same is true of some female opinion-formers like Kathleen Parker.
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