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Trump Nominating Amy Coney Barrett as SC Judge is Reminding Many of 'The Handmaid's Tale', Here's Why
News 18Much is being said about US President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Judge nominee Amy Coney Barrett whom he nominated on Friday to fill up the vacancy following the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg. But while the conservative Barrett has been speculated to be Trump’s choice for SC for a few years now, the nomination brought a wave pf fresh chatter about Barrett’s textualist and conservative views as well as her mysterious religion, which many are now claiming might have inspired author Margaret Atwood’s award-winning novel “The Handmaid’s Tale”. The Handmaid connection The reason those familiar with Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is because “women leaders” in the People of Praise were formerly called “handmaids”. Despite sharing the same name “handmaid” for women, sex slavery and forced childbirth and child abduction are not part of the People of Praise’s rituals and practices. In fact, Vox clarifies that the Handmaid’s Tale is actuallt inspired not by the “People of Praise” but by the “People of Hope”, another “charismatic Christian spin-off sect” that, in Atwood’s own words to New York Times in 1987, described as the book’s inspiration.
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