Free Republic

This Good Friday, we commemorate two ritual murders: Jesus of Nazareth and Theresa Schiavo. snip Where are the people who lobby against domestic violence or, as it used to be called, wife-beating? Like the other feminists, they are uncharacteristically silent. They have apparently had a mass change of heart, and now endorse the indissolubility of marriage and the patriarchal authority of husbands, overthrowing 200 years of feminist rhetoric going back to Mary Wollstonecraft — who described women as the "convenient slaves" of their husbands. Mrs. Schiavo's problem appears to be that she is an inconvenient slave. But she doesn't even...