Take a walk on the left side
As in “What in the hell is she teaching kids at Augustana?”
An article from April 7th’s edition of the Augustana Mirror (page 11) on the topic of the University’s Gay-Straight Alliance campaigning in the community on this year’s marriage amendment has a quote from Professor Jessica. And this quote is such that I suspect it’s going to have several people scratching their heads:
Jessica Nathanson, writing assistant professor at Augustana, believes that society must first examine the institution of marriage.Yeeeow. Marriage is ownership? Although I might feel at times that my wife owns my tail when I forgot some major task, I'm going to assume that Professor Jessica is referring more to an oppressive ownership of women. And that article is just a start.
“It is ownership,” she said. “Marriage is an oppressive institution.”
Nathanson wants society to understand the original ideas of marriage.
Do a web search on Jessica Nathanson, and it's easy for anyone doing research on this academic that she has a long and well documented history of teaching and writing on an "amped up" form of sexuality and radical feminism that seems a bit out of place for South Dakota and for Augustana.
That being said, they don't seem to have a problem with her views, and I don't have any kids attending there, so I'm not going to quibble over it.
But as she starts to be quoted on such tidbits like "Marriage is an oppressive institution," it's easier and easier for my side to clean our brushes in anticipation of a campaign where it's easy to paint her as a left-leaning academic who doesn't share the values of the voters she hopes to represent.
In the meantime, if there are any College Republicans at Augustana who attended the Gender Studies Conference this past Saturday, I'd love to borrow your notes from when Professor Nathanson lectured. I might need them for a test this fall.
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Let's also remember that these red flag incidents at one of our state's Christian institutions are all happening under the leadership of SF mayoral candidate Bruce Halverson.
I was good friends with one of the leaders of the Gay-Straight Alliance and she said she would always recommend Augie to the gay high school students she knows because it's a safe, friendly environment for them to go to college.
I always thought that was the best thing about Augie. It's a Christian school AND welcoming to any openly gay students. I wish more Christian colleges could be like that.
And she is manipulating the students....
Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen They were smart guys – very smart. Kirk, a Harvard-educated researcher in neuropsychiatry, worked with the Johns Hopkins Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth and designed aptitude tests for adults with 200+ IQs. Madsen, with a doctorate in politics from Harvard, was an expert on public persuasion tactics and social marketing. Together they wrote "After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the '90s."
Google that book.
http://www.article8.org/docs/gay_strategies/after_the_ball.htm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46887
Some of the most radical feminists I know are South Dakotans.
It's a "I'm a candidate for District 12 and I think Marriage is ownership" thing.
Just to clarify.
For those of you who didn't click on the link, the next line in the story after her comment is:
Nathanson wants society to understand the original ideas of marriage.
The original idea of marriage was transferring ownership from father to husband.
My goof. Now you address why you're taking the quote out of context, not addressing what she actually MEANT when she said that.
My comments to the student who interviewed me were in reference to the historical institution of marriage, in which wives were sold to and owned by their husbands. I did not say that contemporary marriages were about ownership nor that they were oppressive. (If I thought that they were, I doubt I'd be celebrating my 12th anniversary next month.)
And all of this was in response to the argument that gay marriages ought not to be allowed because of what the tradition of marriage has been. Once you know the roots of the tradition, I told her, it's hard to make that argument.
Jessica Nathanson