I believe it's either dissonance or intervals sorry if it's wrong
The correct answer is D) It affirms the notion that religion can't be used as a basis for unequal treatment.
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However, doing some deep research trying to help you, we can say the following.
The quotation that supports the central idea of the speech is "It affirms the notion that religion can't be used as a basis for unequal treatment."
After our research, we found that the quotation was <em>"Ain't I a Woman? Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him."</em>
And we have some cases in the Christian religion that, when reading some passages of the Bible, we realized that women had different social status than men and were relegated to a second-place behind men.
Well Hawthorne feels that Hester is lucky for her sin being revealed because she won't have a guilty conscience all of the time.
