Republicans advocate battering women.

[Guest guest]

This Republican website calls for counselling and

reconciliation for battered women. In short, if a

woman is battered ( till she is not beaten to death),

she must first attend marriage counselling. She cannot

leave her abusive husband, Republicans say that women

must suffer some abuse, long as it doesnt kill her.

 

Remember this, Republicans have always opposed

Violence against women bills.

 

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/ps20050718.shtml

Time to dispose of radical feminist pork

Phyllis Schlafly (archive)

 

 

July 18, 2005 | Print | Recommend to a friend

 

 

If Republicans are looking for a way to return to

their principles of limited government and reduced

federal spending, a good place to start would be

rejection of the coming reauthorization of the

Violence Against Women Act sponsored by Sen. Joe

Biden, D-Del. It's a mystery why Republicans continue

to put a billion dollars a year of taxpayers' money

into the hands of radical feminists who use it to

preach their anti-marriage and anti-male ideology,

promote divorce, corrupt the family court system, and

engage in liberal political advocacy.

 

Accountability is supposed to be the watchword of the

Bush administration, but there's been no

accountability or oversight for the act's spending of

many billions of dollars. There is no evidence that

the Violence Against Women Act has benefited anyone

except the radical feminists on its payroll.

 

The Senate Judiciary Committee, which is gearing up

for a battle royal over the Supreme Court vacancy, has

scheduled a hearing on the act for mid-July. It's

apparently designed as a be-nice-to-Biden-before-the

court-fight event, since no critic has been invited to

speak.

 

Let's have a reality check. The Violence Against Women

Act's gender-specific title is pejorative: it's based

on the false, unscientific, unjust and blatantly

offensive premise that men are innately violent and

abusive toward women, making all women victims of men.

 

The president of Harvard University was publicly

pilloried for months earlier this year for implying

innate differences between men and women. But the act

is spending a billion dollars a year to inculcate that

very notion in the minds of men and women who are

having marital difficulties, as well as police,

prosecutors, psychologists and family court judges.

 

Feminists staged tantrums at the suggestion of innate

math-aptitude differences between men and women, but

the whole premise of the Violence Against Women Act is

that men have an innate propensity to violence against

women. It's not because some are bad individuals or

drunks or psychologically troubled, but because men

want to keep women subservient in an oppressive

patriarchal society.

 

The Violence Against Women Act was passed using such

bogus statistics as " a woman is beaten every 15

seconds " and " 80 percent of fathers who seek custody

of their children fit the profile of a batterer. "

Remember the Super Bowl hoax, the ridiculous claim

that " the biggest day of the year for violence against

women " is Super Bowl Sunday? It's an assertion

conclusively refuted by Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers'

research.

 

The Violence Against Women Act comes out of Andrea

Dworkin's tirades of hate such as, " Under patriarchy,

every woman's son is her betrayer and also the

inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman. " The

act comes out of Gloria Steinem's nonsense, such as

" the patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal

threat of violence in order to maintain itself. "

 

Here is some mischief in act-funded activities that

should be investigated in the coming Senate Judiciary

Committee hearing.

 

The act refuses to provide any help whatsoever for

male victims of domestic violence. Let's hear from

professor Martin Fiebert of California State

University at Long Beach who compiled a bibliography

of 170 scholarly investigations, 134 empirical studies

and 36 analyses, which demonstrate that women are

almost as physically abusive toward their partners as

men.

 

The act encourages women to make false allegations,

and then petition for full child custody and a denial

of all fathers' rights to see their own children.

 

The act promotes the unrestrained use of restraining

orders, which family courts issue on the woman's

say-so. This powerful weapon (according to the

Illinois Bar Journal) is " part of the gamesmanship of

divorce " and virtually guarantees that fathers are

expelled from the lives of their own children.

 

A woman seeking help from an act-funded center is not

offered any options except to leave her husband,

divorce him, accuse him of being a criminal and have

her sons targeted as suspects in future crimes. The

Violence Against Women Act ideology rejects joint

counseling, reconciliation and saving marriages.

 

The act denies that alcohol and illegal drugs are a

cause of domestic violence, a peculiar assumption

contrary to all human experience. In fact, most

domestic violence incidents involve those components.

 

The act uses a definition of domestic violence that

blurs the difference between violent action and

run-of-the-mill marital tiffs and arguments.

Definitions of abuse can even include minor insults

and refusing to help with child care or housework.

 

The act funds the re-education of judges and all law

enforcement personnel to teach them feminist

stereotypes about male abusers and female victims, how

to game the system to empower women, and how to ride

roughshod over the constitutional rights of men.

 

The act forces Soviet-style psychological re-education

on men. The accused men are not given treatment for

real problems, but are assigned to classes where

feminists teach shame and guilt because of a vast male

conspiracy to subjugate women.

 

The Violence Against Women Act-funded centers engage

in political advocacy for feminist legislation such as

the " must-arrest " laws even if there is no sign of

violence and even if the woman doesn't want the man

arrested, and political advocacy against non-feminist

legislation such as shared parental rights.

 

It's time to stop the act from spending any more

taxpayers' money to promote family dissolution and

fatherless children.

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/19/2005 4:04:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,

mk2967 writes:

 

> This Republican website calls for counselling and

> reconciliation for battered women

 

You don't understand. In some states, " domestic violence " can be anything. A

loud argument or a smashed dish can get you arrested.