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...PATRICIA IRELAND Disses Promise Keepers. NOW more irrelevant than ever...
...switch the word "men" to "women," that statement sounds a lot like what Patricia Ireland has been saying about women's struggle for equality ever since she became president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), a group that Promise Keepers so staunchly opposes...
...group's mission is vague and unsettling regarding its relationships with women. It calls for men to take "spiritual leadership" over their wives, for example, and suggests that women follow. Feminists say this is a throwback to the days of women's servitude and oppression. Says NOW president Patricia Ireland: "Two adults standing as equals and peers taking responsibility for their family is a much different image than the man being the head and master, and women being back in an old role that historically was very detrimental...
Many women, nevertheless, have come to the support of the Promise Keepers. Perhaps to Patricia Ireland's dismay, Hillary Clinton, while cautious about its leadership, has praised the Promise Keepers in her book It Takes a Village. And at a Sept. 16 press conference, a group of conservative women from mainline Protestant, Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches denounced NOW for its attack on the Promise Keepers and decried the negative impact of what they described as "radical feminism" on church and society. "We believe that the feminist fixation on power has sadly missed the point of the present cultural situation...
Because Virginia law allows "surprise witnesses," the trial had a real Perry Mason moment Wednesday when the prosecution called Patricia Masden to the stand. Masden described two encounters with Albert while she was an employee of the Hyatt hotel chain. She said the first occurred in Miami in 1993 when, after a few drinks in his room, Albert asked her about oral sex and threesomes, then bit her lip when he tried to kiss her. The second took place in Dallas in 1994 after Albert asked her to come up to his room to help him send a fax. Masden...