| 11-27 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Theocracies
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Susan Polis Schutz.
We've Already Had Theocracies in the U.S.
"A
couple of men have written in objection to my references to the radical
religious right supremacists attempting to set up a theocracy in the United
States. They claim it might be a good thing... something new to straighten
things out by putting THEIR version of god first.
"May I humbly point out that we've had
theocracies in what is now the United States. The religious refugees who
settled in the New World fleeing religious intolerance in their home areas
set up religiously intolerant theocracies here. Any correct reading of
the Colonies' HIStories will prove that.
"The results were such sterling episodes in our
history as the hanging of Quakers, burning books, giving formal thanks
when Ann Hutchinson and her children were murdered, and, of course, the
Salem witchcraft trials in which 19 women, one man, and two dogs were executed.
"When the U.S. Constitution was formulated such
memories were very, very vivid in everyone's mind, and thus the First Amendment
- the freedom for you to worship as you choose and the freedom for us to
NOT worship if we choose - became a basic right of our nation.
"Yes, independent freedom for men was limited
under the theocracies, but any reading of HIStory teaches us that women
were even more abused and without the right to vote or speak in public,
without civil rights, and had no, none at all, rights to food, their own
clothing, or even life because of unrestricted pregnancies in the theocracies...
and their husbands/fathers/brothers could [and often did] imprison and
restrict their movements in any and all ways without having to answer to
anyone. It's not a way of life most women would consider looking forward
to... again."
-- Irene Stuber, 1995
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11-27 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-27-1809, Fanny Kemble, British actor
and author whose writings give historians
insight into stage and social conditions of the 19th century. Born into
an acting family, she was an acclaimed star in both England and the United
States. She had disdained acting but was forced into it to save her family
from financial ruin. For a time she retired from the stage, marrying a
Philadelphia man, who was also a Georgia plantation owner. Her shock at
the plantation's conditions and later her husband's socially accepted adulteries
led to divorce. Although she wrote several books, her Journal of a Residence
on a Georgian Plantation (1863) is her most telling work. She was an
early suffragist.
B. 11-27-1867, Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer.
Her most noted works: "Witichis" and "Sappho's Prayer to
Aphrodite."
B. 11-27-1875, Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons,
holder of a Ph.D., who had to publish under the pseudonym
John Main so as not to embarrass her husband with her feminist views.
After divorce she became a noted anthropologist and expert of the Pueblo
Indians. Foremost of her many books and articles is the two-volume Pueblo
Indian Religion (1939).
B. 11-27-1909, Kunying Pierra Vejjabul, brave
Thai physician who campaigned against
prostitution and polygamy in spite of death threats and attempts on her
life. Worked for the Thai public health department and established Pierra
Maternity and Child Welfare Foundation.
B. 11-27-1995, Mabel Wheeler Daniels, American
composer, specialized in choral music,
the only American composer played at the Carnegie Hall Festival in 1939,
the only woman to have three works played by the Boston Symphony 1929,
1934, and 1954, but was never able to earn a living with her music. "What
difference whether (music is) written by a man or a woman or a Hottentot
or a Unitarian," she asked.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
SCHULTZ, SUSAN POLIS:
"You want the kind
of girl
who gives up her career
to help you succeed in yours
and who gives up her whole being
to make you a superman.--
"Well honey
I'm proud to say that
I'm NOT that kind of girl"
-- Susan Polis Schutz
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