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 When the brother was assassinated, she ended up sleeping with the assassin -- a rival Duke who was in cahoots with the English! She disowned her son the Dauphin, declaring him a bastard, and signed a treaty handing France over to the English.
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Joan
was born in a village
just outside of France. When she was a teenager she began
having visions and hearing voices whom she identified as St.
Michael, St. Catherine, and St. Margaret. She took a vow of
virginity, which was not merely a renunciation of sexual
pleasure, for a woman it was an essential declaration of
freedom from control and domination by men. Her Voices then
told her to go save the city of Orleans which was besieged
by the English and to take the Dauphin to be crowned King of
France at Rheims. |
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Dumped by the King once he was crowned, Joan was ultimately captured by the English.  |
They needed to prove she was a witch, so they could say all she had accomplished against them was Satan's doing instead of God's will. When they burned her at the stake she was 19 years old. 
At least she got to wear this fabulous hat, which says "heretic, relapsed, apostate, idolater".
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If
I were commanded
to renounce my sexuality
or be burned, what would I do? Could I stand up like Joan
and pay the ultimate price? Can you even imagine being
burned to death, on purpose? Though her trial was
overturned and she was ultimately canonized a saint by the
very church who had burned her, all this was too late to
help Joan. This incredible woman was one of the first people
in the world to assert that the highest authority of all
(God?) lives within us and cannot be imposed from without.
Thus she lived the terrifying and awesome task of overcoming
any distinction between God and us, of becoming an
individual who fully possesses and wills to be herself, even
in the face of the most hideous consequences. God is that
this is possible, both as a promise and as a demand. Can you
do it?
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Talk
about Girl Power!!!
Joan
bent to her will
the most violent world
of men though she was just a girl. She was successful in
battle after battle though she had no military training. She
mingled with princes, cardinals, and kings, though she was a
peasant cow-keeper. She confounded the most learned
theologians of her day though she could barely spell her own
name. Most of all, she was true to herself and her feelings
despite having all the most powerful authorities of her day
against her. Joan chose death rather than give up her
convictions. She changed the world, without killing or
f***ing anybody, pardon my French. For everyone, gay or
straight, man or woman, this makes Joan of Arc a true hero.
Joan's heroism in defying corrupt authority, refusing to
submit to gender roles, and being true to her own
convictions |
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