Anne Hutchinson

So far this has been my favorite reading. I've found all the of the articles and readings about the Puritans interesting (mostly because I loved reading Nathanial Hawthrone's The Scarlett Letter) but I found reading about Anne Hutchinson to be fascinating. I might have been enthralled because I have never known much about her or taken the time to find look into her life and history. As I read this article, I couldn't help but to wonder why they made such a big deal out of her and her teachings. Westerkamp makes it very, very clear that Anne was not the first person to put forth these ideas, teachings and movements. She wasn't even the first women to bring up these ideas. So why condemn and punish her? Why was Anne Hutchinson outcast from her home, community and family? Was it because her voice simply the loudest?