Women Vote!

Today is the 90th anniversary of the date the 19th amendment was certified. We live in a world today where it seems insane that 90 years ago women could not vote. My great-grandmother was born in 1902. When she died at 92 she had watched the world change dramatically. She even learned to use a word processor before she died, when she started her life she taught in a one room school house. Even though the right to vote for women may feel like an entitlement now there are still many fights for equality. I hope that someday my own children will look back and find it hard to imagine that there was ever a time when marriage was denied to two people in love just because of their gender or that a woman's right to choose was decided mostly by men who could never find themselves in the predicament of being pregnant unintentionally. I have to believe that things tend toward goodness. I am sure that the black leaders during the civil rights movement only hoped and dreamed that someday we would have a black president. Maybe one day we will have a gay-female-family planning expert as president. Hey, one can hope. And maybe one day there will finally be truly equal education for all children and safe homes for them to be brought up in. In 90 years we have come so far and I truly believe that in 90 more things will be more socially just.

I believe that the golden rule is still the most important rule. Do unto others as you'd have done to you. I found this posting on the Abortioneers blog enlightening. Many are quick to cast judgement or deny others a right they expect for themselves.