Setting the Record Straight By Janice Shaw Crouse
Feminists sometimes throw provocative stuff with unsubstantiated claims out there and hope that some of it sticks. That's the reaction I had reading Katha Pollitt's latest article –– "Europeans do it Better" (The Nation, April 2, 2007). What got her in a tizzy is the upcoming World Congress of Families IV in Warsaw, May 11-14 –– a conference that she accurately described as promoting large natural families and religious orthodoxy. But when she described the founder –– Allan Carlson, a respected conservative scholar who heads the Howard Center for Family, Religion & Society (a Rockford, Illinois think tank) –– as a right-wing, "family values" ideologue she revealed her bias, sarcasm and condescension.
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