LYDIA SHERMAN WRITES:

Speaking of fathers, have you noticed that our Founding Fathers are now referred to as “Founders“? Nancy Pelosi referred to them as the Founders today after the health care bill was pushed passed the consent of the governed. Everywhere you look, someone is calling them the “Founders.” This is a politically contrived term to leave out their male-ness. 

Laura replies:

You’re right. I hadn’t noticed that. The masculinity of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and all the fathers of our nation is now viewed as an accident of time and it’s important to obscure it. Of course it was an essential feature of the founding and this country would not have become a powerful nation if men and women were equally represented among the early leaders and Patriot forces. If women had failed to reproduce and to nurture the conditions for civic virtue and economic initiative, this country would long ago have withered economically and politically. But it probably never would have succeeded in breaking from the British and founding a nation in the first place.                                                 

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