Here is the story:
The Christian group Concerned Women for America (CWA) has been trying to stop the construction of the National Women’s History Museum in Washington D.C.
The House approved the museum in a 383-33 vote earlier this year, but a similar bill has been blocked in the Senate by Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), noted the New York Daily News.
“Whose view of history is this going to be?” Penny Nance, CEO of CWA, told The Daily Caller earlier this year.
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| Concerned Women of America CEO Penny Nance. |
Nance claimed that the museum would espouse pro-choice, anti-marriage and anti-family positions.
Incredibly enough the museum sponsors even offered Nance a chance to participate in the museum's direction. Guess how that went:
However, conservative Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), who sponsored the museum bill in the House, denied Nance's claims were true and even offered Nance a seat on the museum commission.
Nance called the offer an "exercise in futility and frustration" because it wasn't the chairman position.
“I am happy to either serve or find someone else to serve as chairman,” stated Nance.
Yes why wouldn't you put a person, who clearly has no concept of the struggles that women have undertaken to provide her the opportunity to participate in the the founding of a museum in their honor, the chairmanship?
Now you might find the idea of a women's group, ANY women's group, opposed to the building of a museum honoring women to be almost impossible to rationalize.
But that is because you do not yet realize that Concerned Women for America is not REALLY so much a women's group as it is a conservative group promoting Christianity, carefully hidden behind women's skirts.
In fact on their list of top issues are :
Sanctity of Life
Defense of Family
Religious Liberty
National Soveregnty
And of course Defense of Israel.
Somehow I do not think that these issues were among the top priorities for the women who fought for the right to vote, or own property, or hold elected office in this country.
Here is CWA's Mission Statement:
The mission of CWA is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens — first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society — thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation.
Oh yeah, SO pro-women don't you think?
In fact it seems to me that this is really just the same anti-women, Christian misogynistic group, railing against the feminists, that we have seen for years now.
Only this one wears lipstick and nail polish.
Too frequently Women are their own worst enemy.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the truth, men always stick together no matter what.
DeleteIf it weren't for certain women, the ERA would have passed years ago.
She's no toothless tiger, is she? Lipstick isn't helping her.
ReplyDeleteShe'll be on Fox tomorrow, naturally. It would have been funny listening to the conversation between her and Blackburn, two of the most stupid women America has ever produced.
She's quite fetching, in a stepford wives kind of way.
DeleteFunny how wingnut women all wear a lot of make up
ReplyDeletebecause the way God made them is unacceptable.
IMO her teeth are a little over bleached! (My retirement gift to myself ten years ago was professionally made teeth bleaching trays from my dentist. I use them occasionally for a nice, natural look.)
DeleteCertainly NOT what I call pro-women. The group sounds intellectually challenged.
ReplyDeleteCWA: Conservative Whining Assholes
DeleteWhy in hell would they offer this woman--who inserted herself uninvited into the project-- the chairmanship? Entitled much, honey??
ReplyDeleteOr just delusional?
Or just plain fucking crazy.
DeleteOne look at the list of "sponsors" tells me she's in it for the pats on the head for sticking to their script. The sad thing is, even now, there are women suffering the stockhold syndrome to men who don't have their best interest in mind at all. Maybe Nancy with an "e" would be amenable to two separate but equal women's museum, on secular based on facts and one batshit crazy one led by the Dugar mom.
ReplyDeleteSorry to correct, but it's "Stockholm Syndrome", relating to hostages gaining sympathies and agreement with their captors,
DeleteShe wanted the Chairman's job or nothing. Hey babe, don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out! Another greedy gd bible thumper run amok!
ReplyDeleteHear that?
ReplyDeleteIt's my grandmother - rolling over, n her grave. And she was a freaking Quaker who managed to fight for the right to vote, and support her family as well.
Screw these religious fanatics! Thank god they are in minority in the USA!
ReplyDeleteanon@4:02... I frevently hope those religious fanatics are a minority in theUSA... but for all I know, statistically they are on the 49% to 51% level. That leaves those of of us who use reason at an extremely slender margin of success.
DeleteClueless Women of America
ReplyDeletePenny, that's the most insincere smile I've seen on man or woman in months.
ReplyDeleteTruly, the frozen grimace of a sexually-repressed "Christian."
DeleteShe looks like she just farted
ReplyDeleteIf you're a woman, the Christian religion down through the ages has not been your friend.
ReplyDeleteFor example: Hypatia, considered one of the most learned mathematical and astrological minds of her time, was killed by Christian monks who scraped her to death with oyster shells. Why? Because, as a woman she had committed the grave sin of being a female who had the audacity to teach men.
Witches and broomsticks, know where that comes from? It was the custom of midwives--who were forbidden to practice "medicine" but did it anyway--to announce the birth of a new babe by sweeping the lucky family's front stoop (I have no idea of the reason for this ritual). But since doctoring as either a physician or a sawbones was exclusively a "man's job", midwives were demonized as witches. And yes, many midwives were burned alive as witches for the grave sin of being women helping women. (It's important to note that midwives also had fewer fatalities than did the "physicians" and sawbones who had no clue about sanitation.)
And even in the "enlightened" 20th Century, women could not:
Vote,
Buy a car or a house or property unless a man signed the contract (this continued to the 1950's and 1960").
Could not sit at a bar in a tavern. (1950's to 1960's.)
And professional occupations available to women were, almost exclusively, confined to: nursing, teaching, and secretarial work.
There is nothing, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, female religious idiots could do or say to convince me they have even remotely considered the best interests of women in adopting their ludicrous position.
I sneer and spit in their general direction.
Anon @ 5:34: Your post is absolutely correct, from the first sentence to the last. I have nothing to add, because your knowledge of not only medieval customs, but also more current ones is flawless. Thank you...
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ReplyDeleteIt's getting harder by the day to believe any christian...
ReplyDeleteNot only do these kooks have something against their own gender, they have something against history in general. And wasn't it our very own Scarah who shut down Wasilla's museum as she "combed through the budget" to make room for her own needs?
ReplyDeleteSanctity of Life - unless that life belongs to a person of color, or who has been incarcerated, or someone too poor to have health insurance, or a woman whose life or health is threatened by gestating.
ReplyDeleteDefense of Family - only if that family is heterosexual, fecund and white. Families of color, especially Latino families, don't matter. Screw families if someone isn't documented.
Religious Liberty - only if that religion is fundamentalist Christian of the hate-filled, misogynistic, authoritarian type.
National Soveregnty -
And of course Defense of Israel.
Penny Nance CEO of Concerned Women of America?
ReplyDeleteLets take a trip in the wayback...to Oct 31 2010...Back when the nutters were still thinking Sarah would run in 2012, and the real Republican Party was sure the old hoohah had past her sell by date also too.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44449.html
"Next for GOP leaders: Stopping Sarah Palin
Top Republicans in Washington and in the national GOP establishment say the 2010 campaign highlighted an urgent task that they will begin in earnest as soon as the elections are over: Stop Sarah Palin.
Interviews with advisers to the main 2012 presidential contenders and with other veteran Republican operatives make clear they see themselves on a common, if uncoordinated, mission of halting the momentum and credibility Palin gained with conservative activists by plunging so aggressively into this year’s midterm campaigns. (HOTLINK AT THE LINK See: Sarah Palin wreaking havoc on campaign trail)
There is rising expectation among GOP elites that Palin will probably run for president in 2012 and could win the Republican nomination, a prospect many of them regard as a disaster in waiting. "
Words of wisdom unless you are a Palinista or a RWNJ.
The Palinista pushback included Penny Nance in The Daily Caller. (remember to clean the poo off your shoes if you go to the link)
http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/01/on-palin-conservatives-also-bash-republican-operatives-for-talking-out-of-school/
"On Palin, conservatives also bash Republican operatives for talking out of school 5:04 PM 11/01/201
Though most of the attention on the latest Politico vs. Sarah Palin dustup is revolving around charges of media bias, conservatives are also angry with the GOP operatives who are anonymously sniping at Palin.
“The last thing Republican operatives should be discussing on the eve of a historic election featuring conservative women is some kind of goofy ‘Stop Palin’ strategy. Unfortunately this is typical of the GOP establishment’s self-serving worldview which the grassroots have clearly repudiated,” said Penny Nance, chief executive officer of Concerned Women for America.
The pushback comes in response to a Politico story that quoted several anonymous Republican operatives worrying aloud that a Palin presidential candidacy could end in disaster.
The pushback comes in response to a Politico story that quoted several anonymous Republican operatives worrying aloud that a Palin presidential candidacy could end in disaster.
“We believe she could get the nomination, but Barack Obama would crush her,” said a source identified by Politico as “one prominent and longtime Washington Republican.”
Palin and her allies are pushing back, attacking the media first. But they are also aiming their ire at the sources for the story."
Check out the IRS 990 for Concerned Women for America. http://www.eri-nonprofit-salaries.com/?FuseAction=NPO.Summary&EIN=953580834
DeleteFor the year ending June 30 2013 Concerned Women for America paid Liberty University (the "Baptist College" Jerry Falwell founded) alum Penny Nance $175,000! (page 7 of 2012 990 filing).
That 990 shows a five year total of over $45,000,000 raised and apparently a similar amount spent on the various "non-partisan" nutter projects that CWfA undertakes (page 14 2012 990 filing).
Page 7 also lists the board of directors of CWfA with a Beverly LaHaye Chairman (and founder apparently) (unpaid),a Sharron LaHaye Trustee (unpaid), a Lee LaHaye CFO ($145,000+ $5,278 for the year).
LaHaye?! That's not the wife and son and daughter in law of the Left Behind Nutter Author Tim LaHaye? Guess it is (google). Must be an all in the family type thing.
Ooops. Page 34 (aka Schedule O of the 2012 990 filing) reveals a few more in the woodpile! Barrie Lyons Trustee happens to be Beverly LaHaye's sister, and Lori Scheck happens to be Beverly LaHaye's daughter. They forgot to list Sharron LaHaye on Schedule O, perhaps there were so many LaHayes even Lee $150,000 LaHaye missed that mistake before he signed that form.
Youtube of Penny Nance at the 2014 Liberty University Convocation. 12 minutes of dominionist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb0BDhqNzx4
As 10:09 PM pointed out, this is all about dominionism. These folks are zealots like the Taliban. They have been working at this for years and are well funded.
DeleteI've seen better animatronic creations than Penny. She doesn't incorporate the newest advances in AI.
ReplyDeleteIn the last decade, there were also takeovers by right wing groups whose goal was to reinvent the image of Susan B. Anthony into an avid anti-abortionist. They in fact do have control over Susan B. Anthony's birthplace museum in Adams, MA. They reinterpreted Anthony opposition to a butcher-style individual performer of abortions and killer to an anti-abortion position, and have included it in one of the museum's exhibits. As the Koch-heads say, "money is free speech." Money was able to fund the museum, and reinvent Susan.
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