Father says that America needs a woman president and half of Congress should be women. This is the highest goal of feminism -- the ultimate castration of men -- the ultimate logical conclusion to the Fall where everything is turned upside down and there is total chaos and disorder between men and women. I don't know if Father came up with this and the UC accepts this Marxist/feminist idea or if UC leaders influenced Father to believe this evil idea. Dr. Lee is considered to be one of the greatest intellectuals in the UC and considered by some to be the foremost teacher of the Principle. He died at an old age without giving a clear statement of politics and economics in the Unification Thought. If only he had not written about men and women too. Sadly, he gives a strong statement for feminism. He tries to soften it a bit but there is no logic to his argument. He writes in Essentials Of Unification Thought:The Head-Wing Thought in a chapter called "Order and Equality"
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Let us consider the matter of order between husband
and wife and equal rights between men and women. Until
today, women have been oppressed B. The Divine Principle Way of Order and Equality With regard to equality of rights, there can be no true equality of the rights among peoples' various occupational positions, because in order for people to carry on social life, the relationship between subject and object is indispensable, as in the case of government and people, superior and subordinate, and so on. Yet, people are equal in love -- in the sense that they are equally loved to the fullest degree -- even though they may have different occupational positions. For example, there can be no difference between the way the president of a nation loves his children and the way a citizen of that nation loves his own children. In a family, there can be no perfect equal rights between husband and wife. Of course, there is no superiority or inferiority in value between husband and wife; still they are meant to engage in harmonious give-and-receive action from their respective positions of subject and object. If they do so, conjugal love will be realized in their relationship, and both the husband and the wife will experience joy. Thus far, people have been pursuing political equality under the law and economic equality of property. Yet, the kind of equality our original mind desires has never been realized, while there has never been any realization of political or economic equality, whether in capitalist or in Communist society. This is because people have neither received God's love nor practiced it in their families and society. When God's love is actualized in the family and expands to society, people will come to form fraternal relationships among themselves. Then, even if there are differences in occupational positions or in rights, equalization will be promoted in the fields of economy, education, and so on, and exploitation or discrimination will completely vanish. In such a society, women will be able to take even such persons as that of a president or high-level executive in a company, and discrimination between men and women in the work place will vanish. Since, however, there are functional differences between men and women, it is natural that there should be some distinction between men and women in some specific occupations. |
This
is intellectually incoherent. It is an attempt to have the cake and
eat it too -- to have feminism and traditionalism. Dr. Lee writes,
"women have been oppressed and discriminated against by men." Women
have not been saints either.
DISCRIMINATION
Some of the discrimination in the past was principled in that it correctly saw men and women as different and having different roles. It should be legal for organizations to discriminate. It was wrong for the U.S. government to force the Boy Scouts to let women be scoutmasters when they did not want to. They lost the court fight and now must let women in.
Some in the UC believe that the women's movement has done some good things, but it has gone too far and now causes divorce. This is wrong. The feminist movement has done nothing good.
POSITIONS = ROLES
In UT we read that if women take the subject position we will have "the phenomenon of repulsion. For that reason, the questions of order between husband and wife and of equality between men and women are important problems to be solved." The idea of women being the bones and men the flesh is repulsive. Because America has embraced feminism it has led to the slippery slope of the repulsive gay movement. We read that men and women have equal value. This is true. We then read that husbands and wives "are meant to engage in harmonious give-and-receive action from their respective positions of subject and object. If they do so, conjugal love will be realized in their relationship, and both the husband and the wife will experience joy." This is true. The word "positions" could also be called "roles." Many UC members do not like this word, but there are eternal roles for men and women. And when men and women stay in their God-given positions and don't leave them, then husbands and wives can "experience joy."
We read that in God's ideal world, "discrimination will completely vanish. In such a society, women will be able to take even such persons as that of a president or high-level executive in a company, and discrimination between men and women in the work place will vanish." This is false. Discrimination can be for good. The ultimate case of good discrimination is the law against women in combat. Because America has a law that there will be no discrimination sexually in the workplace, women are now able to sue businesses that will not hire women when common sense says they are right in discriminating. Now we have the insanity of women cops and firefighters.
Unification Thought then tries to find some middle ground and says, "Since, however, there are functional differences between men and women, it is natural that there should be some distinction between men and women in some specific occupations." What in the world does this mean? What is "functional differences?" Is everyone going to understand what is the "natural" "distinction between men and women in some occupations." What occupations?
and
discriminated against by men, but in recent years, the
women's liberation movement, which advocates equal rights
for men and women, has been promoted strongly. On the other
hand, in advanced countries such as the United States, where
the women's liberation movement is very active, divorce rate
is increasing and family breakdown is widespread. Such
social ills have come about because of the excessive
emphasis on equal rights between men and women. This has
created a situation in which the positions of subject and
object between husband and wife has been lost. If the wife
stands in the subject position, her relationship to the
husband will become its that between subject and subject,
which necessarily causes the phenomenon of repulsion. For
that reason, the questions of order between husband and wife
and of equality between men and women are important problems
to be solved.