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Too Many Leaders Promoting Gender Inequality
The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 adopted in October of 2000 addresses the issue of ending gender-based abuses and supporting the significant role women can and do play in the engagement of peacemaking and inter-religious dialogue.
Too often religion consciously or unconsciously sustains gender inequality and creates barriers that inhibit women from participating fully in the life of the secular, religious and global community. Patriarchal disparities such as power, cultural and religious norms and economic disparities too often deny women an equal place at the table of decision making.
The historic, defined role of women in religious faith traditions has a great deal to do with how they are incorporated or not incorporated in the productive life of a community. Religious patriarchy at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the the 21st century define the level of credibility and insidiously reduce the credibility if women at the highest levels of decision making.
As an additional comment, Millenium development Goal #3, Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, is the only one of the eight MDG goals that has no significant United Nations organized programmatic work attached to it.
Gender inequality is too often supported and even tolerated by male stereotyping and supported by limited interpretations of the Holy Texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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John Bryson Chane
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October 27, 2008; 3:02 AM ET
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Posted by: Paganplace | October 28, 2008 5:24 PM
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Say, Homesower, not only did he not say anything, he acquiesced to the new use of the word, "gender." That tells one he is a Sally Quinn type, immediately. Gender has to do with grammar. I am the male sex, Sally is the female sex. I don't know what this guy is.
Further, and more to the question/subject, females rule, have always ruled. Heck, they're the ones who start us out, and keep us going. do they not?
Posted by: alltheroadrunnin | October 27, 2008 6:29 PM
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Farnaz my friend:
I am truly touched by your kindness.
The hostility here can be so mindless
That the contrast of your friendly banter
Reminds me of a sweetly singing cantor
Posted by: pseudo | October 21, 2008 11:17 PM
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My dear Farnaz
When I try to write non-trash
I find it doesn't go very fast.
So I must stick to doggerel
My writers block to dispel.
To write with greater poetical merit
It seems the talent I did not inherit.
Posted by: pseudo | October 21, 2008 11:04 PM
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Dear Pseudo,
I miss you.
Farnaz
Posted by: Farnaz2 | October 21, 2008 10:59 PM
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Pseudo, At such a point, on the brink of lexical starvation, how can one contemplate religion and gender? Whence metaphor? Allegory? Even analogy?
Whence.
Posted by: Farnaz2 | October 21, 2008 10:59 PM
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Pseudo,
I mean it's like dying a slow internet death here all the while, bereft, as it were, bereft of poetry, lofty prose, the lyre, lute, etc., you name it. I mean we're bereft.
Yours forlorn,
Farnaz
Posted by: Farnaz2 | October 21, 2008 10:57 PM
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Pseudo, you have returned! It's been sorrowful and pitiful around here, lately, pitiful and sorrowful.
That's all I can say.
We are hanging out at Starhawk's. We are like lost sheep or flotsam, or, maybe jetsam....
Posted by: Farnaz2 | October 21, 2008 10:52 PM
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So what say you John Bryson
Is feminine theology enticing
Or call you the spirit pneuma
In a neuter sense not human
Or could she be Sophia?
Her raised voice in Ave Maria?
Could she be worshipped and glorified?
Or would that leave you horrified?
Posted by: pseudo | October 21, 2008 10:38 PM
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A Bishop quotes the U.N. but not the Bible? I think I understand why your denomination is losing so many members.
I can't criticize what you said, because you didn't really say anything.
Posted by: homesower | October 21, 2008 5:06 PM
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"Sex," strictly speaking, 'All,' has to do with gross biology and plumbing. 'Gender' has to do with all people attach to it.
Including, but not limited to, grammar.