Who's Lying to You About Early Feminism? Susan B. Anthony: Lucifer's Babe?

Family Operations News ^ | 01DEC03 | Art Lemasters

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Who's Lying to You About Early Feminism?

Susan B. Anthony: Lucifer's Babe?


December 1, 2003

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by Art Lemasters

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Many people of scriptural faith have been duped into believing that Susan B. Anthony was a devout follower of the Word by feminist mentions that she was a Quaker, that Quakers were strict, and so forth. Those stories omit the truth. Anthony's family was with the liberal Hicksite Quakers, that is, until she stopped attending Quaker meetings. In liberal Quaker doctrine, scriptures are secondary to each person's "Inner Light." Some Quakers disagree with liberal thought against scripture, but Anthony could not have tolerated them.

She was more of a pagan than a Christian for most of her life. She believed in spiritualism, and she prayed to the "spirits" to become a medium. So did some of her friends, including Harriet Beecher Stowe. Anthony attended at least one "Spiritualist Festival" when she was getting old. Spiritualism (communications with the dead through mediums) became popular with many Quakers in the 19th Century.

She attended her first feminist convention with a group of Unitarians in 1848, when she was 28 or 29. Soon after, she left Quaker meetings behind, for the most part, to be more active as a Unitarian. Many Quakers did the same, because they felt too restricted by other Quakers.

Now, otherwise conservative and religious organizations, holding tightly to whatever vestige of feminism they can while unwittingly helping to destroy families, have clung to Susan B. Anthony as an historic heroine for their daughters. They pay tribute to a woman who opposed the Bible, even to the extent that she uttered blasphemies. But other kinds of organizations also claim alliance with her social inclinations, some having exhumed evidence written by Anthony, herself, that she may have been a lesbian.

At least once, she repeated and rejoiced in what she thought to be fulfillment of the words of the serpent of Genesis, that with his brand of knowledge, humans could "be as gods." While preaching in a church, Henry Ward Beecher yelled to the people there, "Ye are gods!" Thoreau's description of him as a "magnificent pagan" was probably accurate. Elizabeth Cady Stanton issued similar blasphemies, and with her Revising Committee, wrote the Woman's Bible. Anthony ranted in favor of keeping the Woman's Bible as part of the women's suffrage platform and referred to scriptures as "old superstitions" while she spoke. The blasphemous document is now enshrined by our government.

Anthony was widely known to be one who did not believe in our Father. This was the reason for the exodus of "many women of the WCTU" (Kathleen Barry, Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist, p. 294) from one meeting. The Territorial Dispatch and Seattle Times once described her as  "...recognizing no religion but self-worship, no god but human reason,..."

Many religious and associated organizations are holding Susan up as an icon of life. The truth is, though, that she opposed any law "prohibiting abortion," as you can see by finding those exact words in this amicus brief. Yes, Susan's words contradict much of what is written about her in the trojan horse presented by feminists. Amici Caesaris, indeed. Anthony said she rather desired to destroy the "root of the evil," and she blamed men for abortion. A high abortion rate is necessary to fulfilling Susan's various ambitions for feminists. She was a feminist on every point of view with regards to destroying relations between the sexes and to destroying families.

All of feminism leads to high abortion rates and destruction of families. So religious groups and all who attempt to saint Susan B. Anthony should just let the lie go, and join us against all that empowers the insidious  genocide against children in the womb, against men, and therefore, against families.

Our girls are being taught the lie that Anthony was a morally good teacher to follow. What will become of the young ladies when they receive the whole of her seductions from the universities?


Art Lemasters


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Mitch Gould, "A Gay Quaker Timeline, 1820s-1950s," 2002. 20TH ANNUAL CABRINI, JUNE 14-16, 2002. A Pacific Northwest gathering, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered Quakers and (F)friends and relations.
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Corrigan, Jessie Hudgins, Jim Fritzler, Joan Chovan, Joe Johnson, Kelly Hurt, Kris Lawson, Lori Summers, Lou Anne Meloche, Neil and Ann Piche, Patricia Heil, Sally Drake, Sue Solberg, Teresa McEachern, Velvet Van Bueren, Washington Irving and Mary Mark Ockerbloom. A Celebration of Women Writers  "Chapter XI." Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eighty Years And More: Reminiscences 1815-1897, 1898.
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Singular Feminist. New York University Press, 1988.

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"FFL Amicus Brief for Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic," 1990. Feminism and Nonviolence Studies Association, 2003. [Contains quote of Susan B. Anthony against abortion prohibition from "Marriage and Maternity," in The Revolution, 4(1):4 (July 8, 1869).]
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[Lorianne]

Many of our Founding Fathers were not Christian and were instead Deists, Unitarians, etc. Should we throw away our Constitution?

[Maximilian]

Thanks for these quotations. Do you have the references for them or perhaps a web page where they were taken from? I am not questioning your sources, but I would like to have these quotations available for future reference.

[MEGoody]

But Susan B. Anthony said: "...I cannot believe . . . that such a law [prohibiting abortion] would have the desired effect." --Susan B. Anthony, as quoted from her own publication!

This quote from Anthony isn't pro-abortion in the least. She is simply expressing doubts that a law against abortion will have the desired affect.

[MEGoody]

"Many of our Founding Fathers were not Christian and were instead Deists, Unitarians, etc"

Some perhaps, but many? Nah. The majority were avowed Christians, but they did have the ideal of freedom of religion. Historical revisionists have used quotes out of context (made because of their desire for religious freedom) to try to make the claim you repeat above.

[Lorianne]

Thank you for making my point. Anyone can pull quotes out of context to make any point they wish. See topic starter.

[Lorianne]

I've collected quotes from many different websites and books on the Founders I've read.

Pulling quotes from historical figures to make a point is easy enough to do. :)

[Lorianne]

I've collected quotes from many different websites and books on the Founders I've read.

Pulling quotes from historical figures to make a point is easy enough to do. :)

[MEGoody]

"Anyone can pull quotes out of context to make any point they wish."

I didn't argue with that point at all. That's exactly what people do who claim our founding fathers were 'diests and unitarians.'

[Lorianne]

Exactly. The same way people imply historical figures who were opposed to abortion actually advocated it.

[waterstraat]

Jackson Brown wrote: "One problem with this tome is that Susan B. Anthony was outspokenly anti-abortion!" But Susan B. Anthony said: "...I cannot believe . . . that such a law [prohibiting abortion] would have the desired effect." --Susan B. Anthony, as quoted from her own publication! Follow the links for the proof. Thus, she was against any law that would punish those who abort.

Being against abortion, and wanting a law against it are 2 different things. Esp when you have a situation like today where you have a million offendors each year. It is impossible to put 30 million women in prison for life, because we cant afford it. Nor is it likely that you could execute a million women a year. On the other hand, giving very light sentences (not execution nor the death penalty) for murder, obscures whatever you are trying to accomplish by outlawing it.

[Coleus]

Lorianne, a feminist,  believes that the founder of planned parenthood, Margaret Higgins Sanger was pro life!!!

To: mondonico

Margaret Sanger was opposed to abortion.

12 posted on 03/29/2004 9:13:20 PM EST by Lorianne

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Margaret Sanger was opposed to abortion.