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New Right seen as threat
to women, religious rights
Representatives to a conference
of Jewish, Christian and human
rights organizations have warned
against the threat posed by the
religious new right to religious
freedom and women’s rights.
The conference, held at American
Jewish Congress headquarters in
Manhatten, issued a call for united
opposition to the political activism
of right-wing fundamentalist groups.
The conference was co-sponsored
by the American Jewish Congress
and the Women’s American Organi
zation for Rehabilitation Through
Training (ORT).
“Our very lives as people of faith
depend on religious freedom and
pluralism,” Blu Greenberg, author
of “On Women and Judaism,” told
the audience of more than 100
people who attended the convocation.
“As I watch some of the evangelical
programs, as I read their pronounce
ments, 1 feel very frightened,” she
said. “And I’m sure that Catholics
and Protestants who locate them
selves along different points on the
religious spectrum feel the same
fear,” she added.
Her warning was underlined by
feminist and author Betty Friedan
who cautioned against a “strange
convergence, a battle against women’s
emergence to full equality and control
of our own destiny and threats to
the pluralism and diversity of religious
belief that is so basic to American
democracy and the flourishing of
the highest values in this country
and the world.”
The past 10 years have witnessed
the growth of the fundamentalist
right in the United States, Ms.
Friedan stated, “first successfully
defeating the Equal Rights Amend
ment, and now trying to take away
Betty Friedan
the right of women to decide whether
to have a child.”
“We must be aware of the common
danger,” Ms. Friedan said. “Our
battle to preserve religious freedom
and our right as women is a common
battle and it goes to the very basis
of our human values and our highest
spiritual values.”
Outlining the theme of the con
ference, Norman Redlich, dean of
the New York University School of
Law and co-chairman of the
AJCongress Commission on Law
and Social Action, traced the history
of the Establishment Clause, which,
he said, states clearly the principle
of “no government support for
religion.”
He said recent Supreme Court
decisions appeared to jeopardize
the traditional separation of church
and state. The pluralism that we
enjoy in this country, the right to
be different, derives from Constitu
tional protection of religious freedom,
he said. Religiously defined roles
for men and women and all of the
variations in lifestyles that comprise
religion, ought not be locked into
the law of the land, he added.
Rep. William Green (R—N.Y.)
delivered the keynote address, sharply
criticizing groups that have used
the issue of morality asjustification
for blocking liberal measures from
passage in Congress, such as funding
for family planning facilities and
abortions for poor women.
Stan Hastey, director of informa
tion services for the Baptist Com
mittee on Public Affairs, said that
the Fundamentalist rejection of
pluralism threatens to undermine
traditional Baptist unity. “But it is
a much larger debate as well," he
declared. Constitutional principles
must be protected, he stated.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell recently
announced that his Moral Majority
is forming a new “ Liberty Federation”
to lobby for political causes. The
conference organizers said in a
statement that “the dangerous mix
of ultra-Right politics and Fun
damentalist dogma powering the
Moral Majority, and presumably
its successor, Liberty Federation,
represents a dramatic escalation of
the threats to pluralism and to the
climate of tolerance in our nation.”
Organizations participating in
the conference included the American
Jewish Committee, Catholics for a
Free Choice, Christie Institute,
Church of the Brethren—Washington
Office, Federation of Reconstruc
tionist Congregations and Havurot,
Hadassah, National Coalition Against
Censorship, National Council of
La Raza, National Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council
(NJCRAC), New York State Catho
lics for a Free Choice, People for
the American Way, Religious Coali
tion for Abortion Rights, and United
Synagogue of America.
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