Abouna Gregori Two Cents Worth

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My Thoughts for the Week of March 17th - 23rd:

Warning: The following may be found by some to be rather shocking, but I feel that it is something that MUST be put forward and in a blunt a manner as possible.

When Damsels and Fair Maidens Were In Distress and Chivalry was Alive and Well:

Today’s woman has long forgotten how to be a lady. The women’s rights movement has managed to gain equal rights for women, but in the process they have destroyed femininity and at the same time they have made huge in-roads toward emasculating men and boys.

Gone are the days when a man would rush to open a door or give up his seat for a woman (heck, in many cases this would be considered “sexist”), gone are the days when a man would be willing to defend a woman’s honor (actually, most women today do not have much honor to defend). There was a time, in the not too distant past, when men and boys wouldn’t think of talking dirty in the company of woman and girls. Today, most women talk far dirtier then men.

Today, there is little to no modesty left in women any more. All one need do today is to look at how women behave at Mardi Gras time, gladly exposing their breasts for a few beads, and the behavior of young college age women in the videos titled “Girls Gone Wild”. With the “burning of their bras” in the late 1960’s early 1970’s, and the legalization of abortion, the modern woman has become coarser and looser in their morals. In many instances, it is not only the men and boys in the African/American community that refer to their women as “ho’s and bitches” ,especially in their Rap music, but more and more white men and boys are doing the same thing in many of their conversations. But what is really sad is that many of today’s women and girls are eager to prove them right.

The women of today claim that they want equal rights, but in reality they want to be better than men and they will stop at nothing until they have achieved that end. In many television commercials, women are frequently portrayed as being the smart one while men are often portrayed as being rather stupid and childish. More and more women are getting into rougher and rougher sports. More and more women and young girls are openly throwing themselves at men and boys and in most cases, they are even initiating the sex act. We are seeing more and more cases of women teachers sexually molesting their students, both male and female, some as young as ten and eleven years old.

Today, everything in the arena of sex and reproduction rights is stacked totally against men. Woman have full and absolute control. If a husband desires to fulfill his husbandly duty and right to engage in sexual relations with his wife, he can and Will be charged with rape if the wife does not wish to have sex with him. If the wife becomes pregnant by her husband or boyfriend, and she has no desire to bear the child, she, and she alone has the RIGHT to opt for an abortion, even if the father wants the child. If the couple engages in sex, and the man has made it known in advance that he has no desire to be a father and does not want children, and the woman becomes pregnant (even if she lied to male partner and told him she is on the “pill” or cannot have children), and she demands to have the baby, the man is forced to financially support the child, like it or not, until it reaches 18 years of age.

There have been many cases where women have done everything to sexually arouse men and engage them in sexual intercourse, then just at the moment that the man is reaching climax, if she says stop, and the male is unable to withdraw in time, the woman has the right to charge the man with rape. In the work place or in school, if a male asks a female for a date and she refuses, and if he asks a second time later, she can have him charged with sexual harassment.

What has all of this led to? As females grow more and more assertive and push for dominance in school, the work place and in public, as they fight to prove that they are far superior to men in everything, as they push to feminize little boys and men, (have you ever wondered why women seem to be so in awe of very feminine gay men? Because they are just one of the “girls” and that is just the way women like it.) traditional marriages are becoming a thing of the past. Women have been brought up to believe that they don’t need a man in their life and that males are only good for one thing (with artificial insemination, even that “one thing” is falling by the way side), and many males today are beginning to have the feeling that if they can “get the milk” for free, why buy the cow.

We now have a much coarser society, because as individuals, we lost all self-respect, respect for others and respect for life itself. The lines between the sexes and the traditional roles of men and women are becoming blurred, as the women’s rights groups do everything in their power to prove, at least in their eyes, that there are no differences between the sexes. Their denial that there are not only physical but psychological differences, their refusal to accept the fact that males and females are supposed to compliment and fulfill each other, has led to a plethora of emotional and psychological problems as well as gender identification disorders.

“Original sin”, entered the world through Eve who was seduced by Satan in the Garden of Eden, who then enticed Adam to join her in the sin of disobedience. Today’s women are going out of their way to show that they are even more adept at evil then was Eve and that they will not rest until they have succeeded in destroying every last vestige of morality in the world.

Rev. Fr. “Abouna” Gregori

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