Posted on 10/08/2020 1:04:15 PM PDT by Stravinsky
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served as a “handmaid,” the term then used for high-ranking female leaders in the People of Praise religious community, an old directory for the group's members shows.
Barrett has thus far refused to discuss her membership in the Christian organization, which opposes abortion and, according to former members, holds that men are divinely ordained as the “head” of both the family and faith, while it is the duty of wives to submit to them.
Portions of two People of Praise directory pages for the South Bend, Indiana, branch were shared with The Associated Press by a former member of the community on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue and because this person still has family members in People of Praise. A second former member, Gene Stowe, who left the South Bend branch on good terms several years ago, confirmed the authenticity of the directory pages. He said he could not say precisely what year the directory was from, but that it had to be 2013 or earlier because one of the people listed had by then moved to another state.
All the top leaders within People of Praise are male, but in each of the group's 22 regional branches a select group of women is entrusted with mentoring and offering spiritual guidance to other female members. Until recently, these female leaders were called “handmaids," a reference to Jesus’ mother Mary, who according to the Bible called herself “the handmaid of the Lord.” The organization recently changed the terminology to “woman leader” because it had newly negative connotations after Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” was turned into a popular television show.
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oh no... not a handmaid in a religious group!
We need a godless liberal then.
Who has the harder task?
I’m missing their point here. Is this an illegal group of some sort?
Anonymous source = Bull Pucky
“We should listen to the rabbit.”
I love this. In spite their best efforts to the contrary, the DemonShits just can’t keep their anti-Catholic and general anti-religious bias from showing in this confirmation process.
The Godless and Soulless Leftists going down the ‘handmaid rabbit hole’.
The first lesson of holes: when you are in a hole, stop digging.
And “handmaid” is a bad word because of a stupid TV show ... right?
Please, please please let the Dems ask her this in the hearings so that she can explain the meaning as contained in the scriptures.
The Laity of the Catholic Church is hardly dystopian. One might be able perhaps to make such a case for the hierarchy.
Judge ACB should temporarily convert to islam for the confirmation hearings and show up in her burkha.
I think these liberal women protest too much on this handmaid business. These are the same women who LOVE 50 Shades of Grey, which is basically a story about a guy enforcing a whole bunch of patriarchy (and kinky sex) on a young woman; the result being that she wants to have his babies (and does). Mixed signals. Par for the course.
That’s what I keep saying. Hey, ladies, we got the better end of this deal.
“former members, holds that men are divinely ordained as the “head” of both the family and faith, while it is the duty of wives to submit to them.”
You find disgruntled members to say what you want to hear. Right?
Subset of white militia? Lady division.
“according to former members, holds that men are divinely ordained as the “head” of both the family and faith, while it is the duty of wives to submit to them”
You mean they actually believe what the Bible says? The horror!
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