The Wild Hunt » Robin Morgan http://wildhunt.org/blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:01:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Who Would The Goddess Vote For? http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/02/who-would-goddess-vote-for.html http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/02/who-would-goddess-vote-for.html#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:18:00 +0000 Jason http://wildhunt.org/blog/2008/02/who-would-the-goddess-vote-for.html As Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continue to compete for their party’s nomination, endorsements from all corners and walks of life have been emerging in hopes of swaying like-minded voters to back their preferred candidate. Recently, two figures who loom large within the Women’s Spirituality/Goddess movement have made endorsements that draw stark lines in the sand.


Carol P. Christ and Robin Morgan

The first comes from poet, author, and activist Robin Morgan. Morgan, one of the founding members of W.I.T.C.H., and an extremely Pagan-friendly writer of works like “The Burning Time”, and “The Network of the Imaginary Mother”, has released an updated version of her classic feminist essay “Goodbye to All That”. The new version, “Goodbye to All That (#2)”, decries the double-standards applied to Hillary Clinton, and ends with a passionate rallying cry on her behalf.

“So goodbye to Hillary’s second-guessing herself. The real question is deeper than her re-finding her voice. Can we women find ours? Can we do this for ourselves? “Our President, Ourselves!” Time is short and the contest tightening. We need to rise in furious energy – as we did when Anita Hill was so vilely treated in the U.S. Senate, as we did when Rosie Jiminez was butchered by an illegal abortion, as we did and do for women globally who are condemned for trying to break through. We need to win, this time. Goodbye to supporting HRC tepidly, with ambivalent caveats and apologetic smiles. Time to volunteer, make phone calls, send emails, donate money, argue, rally, march, shout, vote.”

The second endorsement comes from Carol P. Christ, who first made waves back in 1978 with her essay “Why Women Need the Goddess”, and has since become a noted author on women’s spirituality and feminist theology. Christ, on the Women and Spirituality blog, explains why she voted for Barack Obama, and why she didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton.

“I did not vote for Hillary Clinton because she voted for the second Iraq War (and did not repudiate the first one). When Hillary tells us that she was mislead by President Bush and that if she had known then what she knows now she might have voted differently, I ask: Why didn’t she know then? I had listened to the news and I knew that the IAEA had not found evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and was asking for more time to carry out its inspections. I knew that war is almost never a solution and that its victims are overwhelmingly women, children and old people. I knew that rape is an ordinary tool of war. I knew that military training is based upon the idea of rooting out the empathy that ordinary people feel for one another. I had marched against other wars, and I marched against the impending Iraq war in Mytiline, Greece– along with millions of others around the world. Barack spoke out against the Iraq war when he was waging an uphill battle for the Senate and after he had been advised to keep his mouth shut. Apparently we knew something that Hillary Clinton didn’t. The fact that she didn’t know suggests to me that she will be quite capable of leading the nation into other ill-advised and unnecessary wars if she is elected.”

This split over Clinton and Obama isn’t just happening with feminists important to the Goddess movement’s development, prominent feminists from all walks of life are split over who to back this primary season. Which brings us to the question: who would The Goddess vote for? Perhaps, considering that the divine feminine has many faces, there is room for both opinions?
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