Nim, I was talking about my mom. She, like me, a liberal feminist, strong supporter of Civil Rights, etc... neither she nor I needed anyone from elsewhere to "educate" us. ;) We do have books down here too. ;)
You might want to look at the links I posted too- Southern Baptists aren't the stereotypes the media makes them into, the majority strongly reject the far right wing that have taken over the SBC. Moderate and Liberal Southern Baptists are so different from right wing SB that even to me- who went to a moderate SB church with my mom until I was 12, I don't understand how in the blazes they are even under the same religious name. Most moderate and liberal SB hate what the right wingers have done to besmirch their faith. I can recall when I was a child, they were mockingly called "snake handlers and holy rollers" by even conservative leaning moderate SB.
Liberalism has just as strong roots in the south as the north, my four times great grandfather was an abolitionist politician in a small town in Southern Kentucky (in the same town that the first Confederate capital of Kentucky was formed, no less!) Kentucky was violently split during the Civil War- it literally was brother against brother in my home state. Kentucky stayed with the union but there was a Confederate capitol as well (same thing happened in Missouri)
Yet after the Civil War my ancestor became a highly respected man. His daughter, my three times great grandmother, was also a fierce abolitionist, and did something few women, north or south did back then, she passionately testified in court for the right of a local African American solider who fought for the Union side, to recieve a government pension.
My maternal great grandmother and paternal grandmother were strong supporters of a woman's right to control her own body, and practiced family planning- my great grandmother had only one child, and my paternal grandmother spaced her three children 6 years apart.
In the house I grew up in Martin Luther King was a hero to all of us. I have been a dyed in the wool bleeding heart liberal feminist since my first memories. I was an ardent feminist already when I experienced my first direct experience of sexism in 1973, when I was 7.
I'm so liberal that I embrace elements of idealistic socialism (no I don't believe rich people's property should be taken away from them, but I think they should pay taxes like they did during the Rosevelt-Carter adminstrations- 70-94%. I'm strongly anti big business, and strongly pro union. The Green Party expresses many of the values I've had all my life.) I want the Green Party to become a viable third party.
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You might want to look at the links I posted too- Southern Baptists aren't the stereotypes the media makes them into, the majority strongly reject the far right wing that have taken over the SBC. Moderate and Liberal Southern Baptists are so different from right wing SB that even to me- who went to a moderate SB church with my mom until I was 12, I don't understand how in the blazes they are even under the same religious name. Most moderate and liberal SB hate what the right wingers have done to besmirch their faith. I can recall when I was a child, they were mockingly called "snake handlers and holy rollers" by even conservative leaning moderate SB.
Liberalism has just as strong roots in the south as the north, my four times great grandfather was an abolitionist politician in a small town in Southern Kentucky (in the same town that the first Confederate capital of Kentucky was formed, no less!) Kentucky was violently split during the Civil War- it literally was brother against brother in my home state. Kentucky stayed with the union but there was a Confederate capitol as well (same thing happened in Missouri)
Yet after the Civil War my ancestor became a highly respected man. His daughter, my three times great grandmother, was also a fierce abolitionist, and did something few women, north or south did back then, she passionately testified in court for the right of a local African American solider who fought for the Union side, to recieve a government pension.
My maternal great grandmother and paternal grandmother were strong supporters of a woman's right to control her own body, and practiced family planning- my great grandmother had only one child, and my paternal grandmother spaced her three children 6 years apart.
In the house I grew up in Martin Luther King was a hero to all of us. I have been a dyed in the wool bleeding heart liberal feminist since my first memories. I was an ardent feminist already when I experienced my first direct experience of sexism in 1973, when I was 7.
I'm so liberal that I embrace elements of idealistic socialism (no I don't believe rich people's property should be taken away from them, but I think they should pay taxes like they did during the Rosevelt-Carter adminstrations- 70-94%. I'm strongly anti big business, and strongly pro union. The Green Party expresses many of the values I've had all my life.) I want the Green Party to become a viable third party.