Way Back Wednesday
Emma Goldman, also known as "Red Emma", is a name
with which most are not familiar. She was born in Russia in 1869 to a
poor Jewish family. In 1885, she ended up in Rochester, New York and
would eventually become heavily involved in the anarchist movement which
is basically a movement that does not think government nor laws are
necessary. She also championed the ideas of atheism, free love and
homosexuality. You should easily be able to make the connection of
atheism and those ideas.
Goldman was a strong pursuer of
equality of the sexes and equal rights. While it is true that women
working in the factories were ill treated, Goldman used that ill
treatment to champion a cause to try and win equal rights for women.
One of her paths to do that was the birth control movement. She
believed that pregnancy was a hindrance to women improving their lives
and achieving financial and sexual equality. In other words, she
rebelled against God's Word that children are a blessing from the LORD.
She would go on to become mentor to a name that most of you should be
familiar with, Margaret Sanger. Sanger is the founder of the
organization that would become Planned Parenthood whose early beginnings
sought to eradicate black babies, poor babies and any other class of
citizen that she deemed disdainful.
Goldman would be
arrested in 1917 for protesting America's involvement in WWI and after
two years in prison, she would be deported back to Russia.
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