Greg Olear offers a sobering historical parable today, as he compares of Ida Craddock in October 1902 to the death of Amber Nicole Thurman in 2022.
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William Lindsey :toad:wrote last edited by [email protected]
Greg Olear offers a sobering historical parable today, as he compares the death of Ida Craddock in October 1902 to the death of Amber Nicole Thurman in 2022.
Craddock took her life after she was convicted of obscenity by a judge acting at the behest of Anthony Comstock, whose Comstock Act remains on the books and which Republicans want to revive.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Thurman died as a result of her inability to access abortion care in Georgia after the Supreme Court knocked down Roe v. Wade. Olear writes,
"I’m writing about this today because it is fresh in my mind, but also because what happened to Ida C. Craddock is happening to women in this country right now: the legal system is going after women trying to help other women."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Dobbs puts women’s lives in danger. The evidence is incontrovertible. But that is clearly the intended result of these neo-Comstock laws. Men are killing women, and using the risk of death to control them."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"And while the press reports on these horror stories when they crop up, the political writers are too consumed with the horse race and the poll numbers to tell the American people that one candidate—the adjudicated rapist—unabashedly wants women to die and the other one does not."
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Christine Johnsonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
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Mickey Lloydreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"beware the devils temptation, women" - Tony Comstock who would cut off the hands of the masturbator so they may see heaven
Anthony Comstock, Purity Vigilante, in His Own Words — Tess Lloyd
At one time, I would have described nineteenth-century purity crusader Anthony Comstock as a has-been. But Dobbs v. Jackson, and the judicial ruling that blocks distribution of mifepristone, one of two medications used in medical abortions, and the Texas law allowing private citizens to sue aborti
Tess Lloyd (tesslloyd.com)
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Mickey Lloyd last edited by [email protected]
@mlbellar Ah, yes, because we all know that heaven hinges on whether God, who sees all and evidently loves to peer into folks' bedrooms, depends on whether you've never masturbated.
What a sick f—k Comstock was.
Thank you for the link. I'll read with great interest.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Christine Johnson last edited by
@christinkallama Yes, far ahead of her time, brilliant and courageous. It is beyond shocking that she was hounded to her death by some pigs of men who were permitted to drive her to suicide as they pretended to be promoting the best of values. Thanks for the link, too!
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Christine Johnson last edited by
@christinkallama Well, I and many others have an understanding of Christianity — at its best — that runs in diametrically the opposite direction from what they think. But I think we have to face the reality that Christianity has given rise to both redemptive/salvific iterations over many centuries, and to demonic iterations, too.
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Christine Johnsonreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
Yes, _Heaven's Bride_ details the self-righteous thinking of Comstock and those like him who thought that America's survival depended on enforcing behavioral and intellectual constraints derived from a narrow and fearful view of human experience.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Christine Johnson last edited by
@christinkallama This is a book I absolutely have to read. I've just put it in my to-read queue at Goodreads. Thank you!