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Textbook co-authored by Roy Moore in 2011 says women shouldn't run for office

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"Roy Moore," who our President and  the GOP Congress wants to see elected, "co-authored a study course, published in 2011 that instructs students that women should not be permitted to run for elected office. If women do run for office, the people have a moral obligation not to vote for them. The course is also critical of the women’s suffrage movement, which in 1920 secured some American women the right to vote.The course, called “Law and Government: An Introductory Study Course,” includes 28 hours of audio and visual lectures given by Moore and others, as well as a curriculum - a product of Vision Forum (a defunct evangelical organization headed by Doug Phillips) taught “Biblical Patriarchy”, a theology that prescribes strict, unequal gender roles for men and women:“Egalitarian feminism is a false ideology that has bred false doctrine in the church and seduced many believers.”

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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