This article was submitted to us from our new contributing author, Marjorie, from Pascha Press:

Surely your news feeds have been as inundated as mine, image after image of smiling women in anatomically correct hats, protesting for their rights under a Trump regime. I ask, as an American woman, just what rights have been lost? What are “we” fighting for? A most fundamental question it seems the organizers themselves cannot answer.

Shall we ask Linda Sarsour, the organizer of the DC march, just what rights she is fighting for? Better yet, let us ask her to articulate what new rights her sisters will acquire under Sharia! The singularly most abusive system of law that exists, and she crows about it on her Twitter feeds. Isn’t the very definition of misogyny one where a woman can be raped for being out in public unescorted, then stoned? Do you think these feminists would appreciate being told they cannot drive, cannot be seen in public uncovered, cannot move freely without supervision? Their daughters have their genitalia mutilated strictly because the female sex is found to be so disgusting it needs to be altered, without benefit of anesthesia, and yet this woman wants to inflict these archaic laws on America. The irony is lost on them.

The unity principle, taken from their website:

“We believe that women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights”

Shall we break this down? First of all, I thought the liberal left disavowed gender? This is why men are now welcome to shower next to our daughters, is it not? So there’s that-“women’s” rights are inherently exclusionary. Sure they have a paragraph about standing up for their LGBTQIA brothers and sisters (wow the acronym grows every time I see it) but this is talking out of both sides of their mouth.

Next, the most fundamental human right is one of life, is it not? Can you see the error in their logic? Many pro-life groups signed up to march and they were denied. In order to participate in this women’s march-one had to be unabashedly for infanticide, for any reason, without apology. Yet they speak of solidarity for ALL women. In the US, there were nearly 60 million abortions performed since Roe V Wade….statistically 30 million female infants removed from this earth. Of these 30 million baby girls, which one could have become the president, how many could have entered STEM fields, how many could have went on to be married with children of her own? How is destroying your children in the womb a human right? How is marching for murder a women’s right?

Now contrast this with Orthodoxy-an institution literally founded on Patriarchy. Women are venerated, every church has the Theotokos front and center. A woman veils of her own choosing, based the on understanding of modesty and virtue, not under threat of death. Can we see our female saints acting as these women have? Mary, as a young, unwedded pregnant maiden, during a time when this was not only frowned upon and shamed, but punished-who had every “right” to terminate according to the feminist-yet bravely brought her child into the world. And the effect of this choice? Eve who helped bring death into the world by disobedience was redeemed by Mary who brought life into the world with her obedience. How does the modern feminist view this triumph of our Faith?

Meekness is mocked Modesty is maligned Dignity is damned Purity is puerile Obedience is obscene Can we draw an inference of authorship behind this line of thought? Might there be an unseen yet evil influence working behind the scenes of these fevered women, barking expletives and spitting on police? Enshrining the self, shouting not your will but mine be done…bought at the blood price of their own children? Sisters, the true revolution is in the counterculture. Embracing our God-given role as helpmeet and mother (by birth or adoption or mentoring). We were given the gifts of bringing life into the world, and whether you act on it or speak it, always have an eye to the Life-giver. Study the real heroines, the Saints, and look not to those who will spit in your face for affirming life and tradition. There is a very real war going on, and it is not over perceived rights but souls. Should you feel the need to march, by all means do-march to church! – Marjorie