LOUISVILLE COALITION for CEDAW
"As
Founder of the Louisville Coalition for CEDAW I come to this commitment not as
a government official nor a human rights attorney but as a Catholic Woman
Priest. My ordination is part of an international feminist,
prophetic, inclusive movement. I do not in any way impose my faith on the
coalition. Our coalition is not faith-based. It is open to people of all faiths
and no faiths, and the same for our outreach. What I do bring to the coalition
as a feminist Woman Priest is an acute awareness that religious misogyny is
fierce and dangerous and must be resisted with great passion and perseverance.
I am also deeply aware that there is an indomitable spirit among diverse women
and men fighting for women and girls' empowerment. This is where I get my
energy and this is the energy I share. The world is thirsting for an end to
gender-based violence. May this local
CEDAW coalition provide water to a parched land."
Rev. Mary
Susan Barnett, ARCWP
59th
Commission on the Status of Women
New York
City
March 2015
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