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This event was up on by the National Organization for Women.This March 8 was the 100thanniversary of International Women’s Day .
The crowd was only about 100, but they were enthusiastic and asked a lot of questions of the guest.
Sarah March said her Christian faith led here to a philosophy of loving her neighbour and that included excepting gays.
Stacy Steidman is a member of the Order of Bards and Druids. She said she heard the singing of trees as a young person and her Druid religion led her to a path of totality with nature. She is very concerned about environmental issues.
Donna Sibaai talked about her Moslem religion. Her husband is Syrian and she was probably the most controversial, because of the Ant-Moslem fever in the US today. Just recently Congressman Peter King of Long Island, New York, has been appointed the Chairman of Homeland Security committee of the Congress. While congressman King has toned down his rhetoric against the Muslim community, he still declared that he will hold hearings to find out if the American Muslim community is cooperating with the law enforcement agencies and also to see what efforts the community is undertaking to prevent radicalization of Muslims. He further stated that he will call “experts on Islam” to testify in the hearings.
Sibaai said that the original text of Islam had nothing to do with subjecting women and that has been done by tribal and political leaders. She said Islam is supposed to be the final chapter of Judaism, Christianity and Mohammed was given the word of god, but Allah or god is worshiped.
There was Marry Harren, a Catholic who has had trouble in her past pushing for reforms of the church, in both birth control and Abortion rights.
“The Catholic Church approved of therapeutic abortions until a few years ago,” Harren said. In other words, the church used to OK abortions to save the life of the
mother.
Del Smith is a Soto Zen Buddhist and emphasized that her view was not to try and predict future events, rather to look at the past and see how it affects the here and now.
Kathy Hull, a long time Wiccan, said she liked her religion because of the emphasis on women and the Goddess of Witches.
All of these panelists said that there was much to be done to improve women’s place in religion. This was especially true of Harren who said the Catholic Church hierarchy has opposed ordaining women and threatening to ex-communicate those who propose it, but that many churches are ignoring the church hierarchy and that this issue will not die out until women are ordained priests.
Sibaai said her Moslem religion are going through a transformation where young people are refusing to listen to tribal elders and rulers who have used religion to put down women and to put down young people. She said her religion went through a dark period, but the rebellions in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East have convinced her that such discrimination will disappear.
Her children are still willing to voice their opinion, despite her husband fears it will get him in trouble with US law.
Common themes rang out as women representing Christianity, Druidism, Moslem, Catholic, Buddhist and Wicca, explained there view of women in religion, This Saturday at the First Unitarian Universalist Church.
This event was up on by the National Organization for Women.This March 8 was the 100thanniversary of International Women’s Day .
The crowd was only about 100, but they were enthusiastic and asked a lot of questions of the guest.
Sarah March said her Christian faith led here to a philosophy of loving her neighbour and that included excepting gays.
Stacy Steidman is a member of the Order of Bards and Druids. She said she heard the singing of trees as a young person and her Druid religion led her to a path of totality with nature. She is very concerned about environmental issues.
Donna Sibaai talked about her Moslem religion. Her husband is Syrian and she was probably the most controversial, because of the Ant-Moslem fever in the US today. Just recently Congressman Peter King of Long Island, New York, has been appointed the Chairman of Homeland Security committee of the Congress. While congressman King has toned down his rhetoric against the Muslim community, he still declared that he will hold hearings to find out if the American Muslim community is cooperating with the law enforcement agencies and also to see what efforts the community is undertaking to prevent radicalization of Muslims. He further stated that he will call “experts on Islam” to testify in the hearings.
Sibaai said that the original text of Islam had nothing to do with subjecting women and that has been done by tribal and political leaders. She said Islam is supposed to be the final chapter of Judaism, Christianity and Mohammed was given the word of god, but Allah or god is worshiped.
There was Marry Harren, a Catholic who has had trouble in her past pushing for reforms of the church, in both birth control and Abortion rights.
“The Catholic Church approved of therapeutic abortions until a few years ago,” Harren said. In other words, the church used to OK abortions to save the life of the
mother.
Del Smith is a Soto Zen Buddhist and emphasized that her view was not to try and predict future events, rather to look at the past and see how it affects the here and now.
Kathy Hull, a long time Wiccan, said she liked her religion because of the emphasis on women and the Goddess of Witches.
All of these panelists said that there was much to be done to improve women’s place in religion. This was especially true of Harren who said the Catholic Church hierarchy has opposed ordaining women and threatening to ex-communicate those who propose it, but that many churches are ignoring the church hierarchy and that this issue will not die out until women are ordained priests.
Sibaai said her Moslem religion are going through a transformation where young people are refusing to listen to tribal elders and rulers who have used religion to put down women and to put down young people. She said her religion went through a dark period, but the rebellions in Egypt and other parts of the Middle East have convinced her that such discrimination will disappear.
Her children are still willing to voice their opinion, despite her husband fears it will get him in trouble with US law.
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