I raised this with the Council, including the leader, months ago and offered my help to prevent all this. Very disappointing not to have had this taken up.
Feminist women holding a feminist conference is one of those events that “inflame division and create tension” and therefore should be stopped, or at least re-located to the Outer Hebrides. Feminists have no right to hold a conference in Brighton, any more than atheists have a right to hold a conference in Salt Lake City or Rome or Mecca.
Feminist women holding a feminist conference is one of those events that “inflame division and create tension” and therefore should be stopped, or at least re-located to the Outer Hebrides. Feminists have no right to hold a conference in Brighton, any more than atheists have a right to hold a conference in Salt Lake City or Rome or Mecca.
Oh, I dunno. A conference of feminist atheists held in Mecca could draw quite a crowd. Maybe worth a try. Who knows?
@iknklast: I suspect some local Mormons in SLC might have been quietly pleased that the presence of an atheist conference was granting them credibility as a “real” religion rather that attacking them as an inauthentic, “fake” one. I perceive an analogy with the story of the snackfood corporation CEO who was delighted to learn that his company’s smoky bacon crisps were segregated alongside the other pork products in supermarkets in the Gulf States because nobody else believed their flavor had anything to do with a real pig.
Oh, I dunno. A conference of feminist atheists held in Mecca could draw quite a crowd. Maybe worth a try. Who knows?
And I attended an American Atheists conference in Salt Lake City. Drew a few protestors, but most people seemed prepared to just yawn and stay home.
@iknklast: I suspect some local Mormons in SLC might have been quietly pleased that the presence of an atheist conference was granting them credibility as a “real” religion rather that attacking them as an inauthentic, “fake” one. I perceive an analogy with the story of the snackfood corporation CEO who was delighted to learn that his company’s smoky bacon crisps were segregated alongside the other pork products in supermarkets in the Gulf States because nobody else believed their flavor had anything to do with a real pig.
Ha!