Teacher arrested over children's naming of classroom toy

[Sundae]

In fundamentalist Christian doctrine women are subservient to men. A woman must obey her father and then her husband. It's only in the last 100 years that the word "obey" has been contested and generally removed from the standard Church of England marriage ceremony.

The Catholic ceremony still includes a statement about having children as and when God decrees it - which was a death certificate for many women even in the West until a good 50 years ago, and continues to be in undeveloped countries.

Many Christian women I spoke to when I was attending an evangelistic, fairly fundie church told me about the comfort of obeying God's rule for the place of women, and how women have pushed for equal rights and are still unhappy. In a way they are right - I am 35, childless, single and expect to remain so. I am unfulfilled in a way. But they forget to mention those that died in mental health institutions simply by having children out of wedlock. Or those who married but shut themselves in upper rooms, or killed themselves, or were just so glacial they fucked up their children...

Anyway, can't comment on the video - it's playing in 5 second bursts at the moment, whic I challenge anyoe to make sense of.