oh this would be such a BIG BIG BIG

and wonderful step! let's hope it comes to fruition

BUT let us NEVER stop working to end domestic abuse EVERYWHERE. wipe it out in every corner of the globe. we CAN and must do it

New Policy Permits Asylum for Battered Women
By JULIA PRESTON
The Obama administration has opened the way for foreign women who are victims of severe domestic beatings and sexual abuse to receive asylum in the United States. The action reverses a Bush administration stance in a protracted and passionate legal battle over the possibilities for battered women to become refugees. In addition to meeting other strict conditions for asylum, abused women will need to show that they are treated by their abuser as subordinates and little better than property, according to an immigration court filing by the administration, and that domestic abuse is widely tolerated in their country. They must show that they could not find protection from institutions at home or by moving to another place within their own country.........

you would think

this is made up or a joke site. it's neither. it's real.

women as chattel. women as objects to be abused and beaten. women as SINNER. women as nothing other than an accoutrement to a man. ah, but it's ok. IT'S THE WOMAN'S OWN FAULT. why? because she wants to think for herself. make her own decisions. own her own body. be second to no one. oh, in other words just be an ordinary human being.

this is sick and disgusting and a disgrace and unbelievable. it's why (well one of the reasons) women are STILL being abused in record numbers.

stand up and say HELL NO. just do it. don't ever allow yourself to be LESS than anyone else. don't ever allow yourself to be abused.

i'd like to spend five minutes, just five minutes with this 'scholar'.
(shout out to feministing)

Southern Baptist Scholar Links Spouse Abuse to Wives' Refusal to Submit to Their Husbands
Bob Allen

One reason that men abuse their wives is because women rebel against their husband's God-given authority, a Southern Baptist scholar said Sunday in a Texas church.

Bruce Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., said women desire to have their own way instead of submitting to their husbands because of sin.

"And husbands on their parts, because they're sinners, now respond to that threat to their authority either by being abusive, which is of course one of the ways men can respond when their authority is challenged--or, more commonly, to become passive, acquiescent, and simply not asserting the leadership they ought to as men in their homes and in churches," Ware said from the pulpit of Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas.

In North Texas for a series of sermons at the church on "Biblical Manhood & Womanhood," Ware described his "complementarian" view as what "Southern Seminary as a whole represents."

Commenting on selected passages from the first three chapters of Genesis, Ware said Eve's curse in the Garden of Eden meant "her desire will be to have her way" instead of her obeying her husband, "because she's a sinner."...