February 14
1847 : (Birth) Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, suffragette leader, one of the first woman ordained as a Methodist minister, and president of the American Woman Suffrage Association for many years. “Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great Cause more than life itself, and to have the privilege throughout life of working for that Cause.”
1920: The League of Women Voters is formed.
1985: The U.S. Rabbinical Assembly of Conservative Jews votes to accept women as rabbis.
edited by bean for correction.
And in 1986, I had the first Bar Mitzvah in Baltimore in a Conservative synagogue ever officiated over by a female rabbi!
“Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great Cause more than life itself, and to have the privilege throughout life of working for that Cause.”
That sounds good unless the Cause is Nazism or segregation or something like that.
I don’t believe in the greatness of Causes divorced from their content. I believe in the righteousness of particular causes.
Man and woman were born equal. We spent all human history trying to deviate from nature. We are only returning to the natural order.