Citing his distaste for the treatment of women in the Southern Baptist dogma, President Jimmy Carter has severed relations with the church. I see this as a pivotal moment akin to a slave owner giving up his slaves and joining the abolitionist movement. It will be interesting to see who else follows his lead.
At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities.
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