According to The Ladies Home Journal, 34% of American women do not vote. What is THAT all about? Ladies, you have to vote. A lot of the talk in this presidential campaign is about you - your health, your employment, your family and who gets to make decisions about your life. You might be fine with letting the men have the final say. But you still need to VOTE!!! I have to say, I think the men should listen to the women in the world.
Like that Pope Benedict. What is he doing, ordering the Nuns on the Bus about? And not just the more outspoken nuns, either. Benedict wants to take over the whole Leadership Conference of Women Religious. What these nuns seem to be saying is the world needs more kindness. When you ask a group of people - nuns in this case - to work with the country's most marginalized people - the poor, the sick, the troubled, - well, you have to expect them to want to HELP the people they work with. American nuns are just taking their Christian gospel to the streets, admonishing law makers to remember all the citizens of the United States, not just the rich, the white, and the male.
Here's what the Huffington Post reports on how the LCWR responded to Pope Benedict at their annual conference. The ladies are behaving like ladies and offering to keep the lines of communication open.
Now, I went to parochial school, and I KNOW just how scary a determined sister can be. Maybe Benedict ran into one or two of those determined nuns back in his younger days. But he's a grown-up now. And if the best he can do, when negotiating with committed members of his flock, is to threaten them with take-over, he might not be the World Leader he thinks he is. I'm just saying.
So back to voting. If you have two X chromosomes, are over 18 and have not registered to vote, do so tomorrow. There are laws about being registered at least a month before an election in many states. In Pennsylvania, until the law is overturned, you will need a photo ID and possibly another form of ID to register. And you will need a government issued photo ID to actually cast a vote - unless fairness prevails. Take a lesson from the sisters. Get involved. Work to make things better.
I try not to get political on this blog - much. I don't care if you vote R or D or I or L or G or even, gasp, C. I DO care if you vote. Register. Vote. Here's a site that will tell you what you need to know. Registertovote.org.
Do it. Now.
