Recently started watching "Mrs. America" on Hulu, a series delving into the battle of the ERA in the 70s. I watched that battle live. I even met Shirley Chisolm. My feminist mother subscribed to Ms. My sister grew up to be a feminist philosophy prof. I decided that 1/

feminism hated housewives, something I aspired to be; that their claims of equal rights for all women were lies. If you were a housewife in the middle of the U.S., you didn't matter. Only if you were a Northeastern liberal aspiring to be CEO of something. ERA opponent Phyllis 2/

Schlafly wrote in her seminal newsletter on the ERA: "The women’s libbers are radicals who are waging a total assault on the family, on marriage, and on children...It is anti-family, anti-children, and pro-abortion." They view the home as a prison, &the wife &mother as a slave 3/

Schlafly later predicted unisex bathrooms, reduction of status of "mother," more abortions, destruction of the family as foundation to society. She was right. Though ERA foundered, the intent of the feminist movement proceeded apace,even infiltrating conservative denominations 4/

Sisters, oppose the feminist philosophy, as the Bible instructs us to do when empty and vain secular philosophies rear their head. Col 2:8. We have have divine power to destroy strongholds (2 Cor10:4) and feminism is certainly a stronghold 5/

1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
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