Affiliation:
1. Northcentral University, USA
Abstract
This chapter will evaluate and assess the correlation of the insidious relationship between patriarchal religion and its effect on women's place in society through political decisions. The implication is that the First Amendment that separates church and state is an illusion of secular law since there is still an ongoing crisis of patriarchal religion, dictated by the Religious Right as a political force, infiltrating every level of law-making by creating roles for women as the arbiters of morality to control their bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom. The author argues that patriarchal religion legitimizes the oppression of women using secular law guided by religious law to illuminate how the aspect of religious discourse limits a woman's existence by maintaining the unequal status quo.