Women’s Issues

Arizona’s MAGA Republicans, like Trump cult Kool-Aid drinkers everywhere, long for a return to the patriarchy days of the 1950s when White hetero men ruled America and women, minorities and the LGBTQIA+ communities “knew their place.”

Recommended Reading

Arizona Politics and Government: The Quest for Autonomy, Democracy, and Development (Politics and Governments of the American States)

Arizona has become a swing state in recent national elections, the source of controversial policies and policy proposals, and the home of well-known political personalities. In this new edition of Arizona Politics and Government, David R. Berman examines contemporary issues in a broad historical, comparative, and theoretical context to identify the mixture of ideas, activities, and events that have helped shape the essential character of the Arizona polity.

Beginning with an overview of continuities and changes in Arizona politics, Berman then discusses more specific topics such as immigration and water issues, cultural wars, political extremism, voting rights, and political reform, as well as intergovernmental relations, judicial elections, the place of rural Arizona and organized labor in state politics, and the state’s treatment of Natives, Mexican Americans, and African Americans. Above all Berman considers the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns reflected in the state’s political life that have fueled Arizonans’ quests for autonomy, democracy, and development.

Thou shalt obey “Christian” White Men

The battles in Arizona and elsewhere against a woman’s right to choose, IVF and contraception, are really about controlling women in every way. It’s part of the crusade to turn America into a white male-controlled theocracy.

Neither God nor Jesus are Mentioned in the US Constitution

Republicans up and down the ballot, in Arizona and other states, want to replace democracy with a “Christian” theocracy. Neither God nor Jesus are mentioned in the U.S. Constitution—not once—yet these people want to  distort the Christian gospels and tell everyone else how to believe, how to dress, how to behave, how to think, how to live—and how to vote. They are Christian in name only.

Clint Bolick and Kathryn King are Up for Re-election

The Arizona Supreme Court has voted to reinstate a 160-year-old law banning abortion. It will be one of the harshest anti-abortion laws in the nation with no exceptions for rape or incest. Arizona may become Ground Zero in the national battle over Women’s rights. Two of the Justices, Clint Bolick and Kathryn King, are up for re-election in November.

So-called “Christian” Nationalists are determined to “convert” the United States from a secular democracy to an Iran or Afghanistan-style theocracy. The abortion issue is just the start. These moral phonies have perverted the teachings to Christianity to support a patriarchal White supremacy fascist dictatorship. Can we get an Amen?