Saturday, April 14, 2007

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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