Category: change
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Women and decisions
“No woman should be told she can’t make her own decisions about her body,” Kamala Harris says.
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Inner peace
If the world is not peaceful, we must try our best to create inner peace. The Tenton Sioux had a proverb: “Inner peace and love are the greatest of God’s gifts.”
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We are in this together
“Our unity is our strength, and our diversity is our power. We reject the myth of us vs. them. We are in this together,” Kamala Harris says.
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Good, fair and just
Let us cling to hope. “The truth is that the vast majority of Americans are good, fair and just, and they want their country to reflect those ideals,” Kamala Harris once said.
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Pay attention
“Attentiveness is the heart’s stillness, unbroken by any thought,” Hesychios of Sinai once said. I found this quote in Into the Silent Land by Martin Laird. –Joy
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Discrimination
Project 2025, reports Ms. Magazine, calls for the next president to rescind executive orders signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid-1960s. These orders prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race and sex.
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Abstinence only
Project 2025, reports Ms. Magazine, would allow only abstinence-based sex education—a notoriously ineffective approach. It also would eliminate the requirement that sex education programs be evidence based.
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The misogynist manifesto
In its fall 2024 issue, Ms. magazine calls Project 2025 “the misogynist manifesto.” Project 2025, for example, “directs the president to develop policies and programs to maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family.” The document explains: “For the sake of child well-being, programs should affirm that children require and deserve both…