Evangelical Republicans go after fellow Americans because they want to believe Jesus-God co-founded the United States of America, gave, our Founding Fathers divine instructions from beyond the grave. Well, ths can’t be true, because our Founding Fathers did not GRANT women the right to vote. The idea that women shoudld own this right in the West, began at an Aboltionist meeting in Britain, where women thought they should own the same rights freed slaves would come to own – that was not GRANTED to them by mortal men, or, by God Himself?
Jesus is NOT God – the Father of the Jews! Christians invented God-Jesus when they could no longer answer the good questions coming from common people – when alas they were able to read the Bible for themselves! The church forbid everyone but a few higher-ups to read the Bible, under penalty of death. Commoners began to find Jesus ‘The Commoner’ who was on their side. The church fathers had to raise Jesus on high – way high into the clouds – to keep King-God Jesus out of reach of his fellow human beings – including women!
I have come to take their cheffon Jesus out of their deluded fluffly white clouds, and bring him down to earth – where he belongs!
Jon Presco
Saudi Arabian King Abdullah announced on Monday that the kingdom’s women would soon be allowed to vote. However, it would only be effective by 2015 and the ballots cast would only be municipal elections.
The king also allowed women to be appointed to the consultative Shura Council – which advises the king. The council started a new term when Abdullah made the announcement.
The suffrage right includes permitting the women to run as candidates.
The king said the extension of voting rights is an indicator that Saudi Arabia would no longer marginalize women in all roles that comply with sharia.
However, the reform is seen as a cautious one in Saudi Arabia’s Islamic culture which still does not allow women to drive or travel alone. Observers said that the oil-rich kingdom has a lot of catching up to do compared to other countries where women have been voting for more than a century.
The right to vote is one of the three key issues that women activist in the kingdom has been fighting for the past two decades. The two others are driving and having a male relative companion when traveling.
Even if Abdullah has indicated openness to reforms that would grant Saudi women more rights he has been cautious because of conservative clerics and some members of the royal family who are against the changes.
Among the reforms are non-segregated universities and appointment of more women to senior positions.
Saudi citizens will vote for municipal posts on Thursday, however, women would have to wait for four more years before they could cast their ballots. Running for seats in local councils are about 5,000 males.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-26/saudi-king-gives-women-voting-rights/2945354?section=world
In medieval France and several other European countries, voting for city and town assemblies and meetings was open to the heads of households. In Sweden, conditional woman suffrage was granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1771, when taxpaying women listed in the guilds as professionals were allowed to vote[5] Women were entitled to vote in the Corsican Republic in 1755 whose Constitution stipulated a national representative assembly elected by all inhabitants over the age of 25, both women (if unmarried or widowed) and men.[citation needed] Women’s suffrage was ended when France annexed the island in 1769. The modern movement for women’s suffrage originated in France in the 1780s and 1790s, where Antoine Condorcet and Olympe de Gouges advocated women’s suffrage in national elections.
In 1756, Lydia Chapin Taft became the first legal woman voter in colonial America. This occurred under British rule in the Massachusetts Colony.[6] This was in a New England town meeting and she voted on at least three occasions in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.[7]
Women’s suffrage or woman suffrage[1] is the right of women to vote and to run for office. The expression is also used for the economic and political reform movement aimed at extending these rights to women[2] and without any restrictions or qualifications such as property ownership, payment of tax, or marital status. The movement’s modern origins can be attributed to late-18th century France, although full suffrage did not come to France or the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec. Limited voting rights were gained by some women in Sweden, Britain, and some western U.S. states in the 1860s. In 1893, the British colony of New Zealand became the first self-governing nation to extend the right to vote to all adult women, and the women of the nearby colony of South Australia achieved the same right in 1895 but became the first to obtain also the right to stand (run) for Parliament (women did not win the right to run for the New Zealand legislature until 1919).[3][4] The first European country to introduce women’s suffrage was the Grand Principality of Finland and that country, then a part of the Russian Empire with autonomous powers, produced the world’s first female members of parliament as a result of the 1907 parliamentary elections.
Women’s suffrage has generally been recognized after political campaigns to obtain it were waged. In many countries it was granted before universal suffrage. Women’s suffrage is explicitly stated as a right under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted by the United Nations in 1979.
e seed for the first Woman’s Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat Mott and other women delegates from America because of their sex. Stanton,in 1851 she met temperance worker Susan B. Anthony, and shortly the two would be joined in the long struggle to secure the vote for women. In 1868 Anthony encouraged working women from the printing and sewing trades in New York, who were excluded from men’s trade unions, to form Workingwomen’s Associations. As a delegate to the National Labor Congress in 1868 Anthony persuaded the committee on female labor to call for votes for wo
men and equal pay for equal work, although the men at the conference deleted the reference to the vote
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