Doctrines about Mary are Doctrines about Jesus.

This article is a wonderful example of why the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary are necessary Christological doctrines.

//The men who wrote the Bible claimed Mary submitted obediently when she became the Mother of God. That does not mean she was not raped. She was raped because she could not possibly have consented. Consent to impregnation presumes a relationship of equals which cannot possibly be presumed between a 12-year-old girl and an omnipotent Father God. The youngest age of consent in the United States is 16, and an eternal Father God would not pass for an age-gap exception to United States statutory rape laws. In the Biblical narrative, Mary was coerced into submission and obedience by the Angel Gabriel.

Donald Trump Christians argue Mary was not raped because God did not physically sexual assault Mary. God’s penis did not penetrate Mary’s vagina. She didn’t feel anything. The “overshadowing” brought neither of them sexual pleasure or release, which, according to Trump Christian beliefs about sexuality, rendered the impregnation “pure” and “holy.” Trump Catholics take it a step further by rendering Mary a perpetual virgin, perpetually an un-erotic and in-orgasmic servile mother. The “virgin birth” is the ultimate argument in favor of sexual exploitation and abuse — it’s ok to impregnate a girl without her consent so long as she doesn’t feel it happening. To the Trump Christian, God’s “overshadowing” of Mary was not wrong because it was not violent. It wasn’t a “legitimate” rape. Trump’s God is the patron saint of those who sexually assault unconscious girls and women.//

In the Catholic/Orthodox view, Mary is the most exalted created being. She was given special graces in the womb and she was taken to Heaven at the end of her life on Earth.

This feminist's theology about Mary being essentially a breeder seems to be a reaction against a substantially Protestant view. I've been in numerous arguments with various flavors of Protestants on Marian doctrines that eventually end up with the Protestant saying that Mary was randomly selected, a sinner, and, basically, a breeder chosen by God and then unimportant thereafter. ("Jesus calls her 'Woman'!!!! "Jesus rebuked the person who said 'blessed is the womb that bore you.' etc.)

The author of this screed, incidentally, is described:

//Sarah Woods is a feminist scholar, theologian, chaplain, and previously ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She holds a BA in Religious Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Masters of Divinity from Howard University.//