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Podcast: Meaningful Life Skills with Rabbi Simon Jacobson
Episode: The Politics of Sexuality
Description: Glaringly missing from all the controversy and debate raging around now Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation hearings is the underlying issue that lays at the heart of the matter: Sexuality. Or in legal terms: Roe vs. Wade - the 1973 landmark Supreme Court decision that established a woman's constitutional legal right to an abortion.
In a twist of irony, the last-minute bombshell accusation that almost torpedoed Kavanaugh’s nomination was also about sexuality: his alleged sexual attack on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
Beyond the story of extreme partisan politics, beyond the story of the Trump Presidency and age of d...