The 1896 NAWSA Convention was notable for its debate about Elizabeth Cady Stanton's book, "The Woman's Bible", in which Stanton challenged traditional religious beliefs that women are inferior to men and should be passive. Many NAWSA members feared that the book would damage the suffrage movement by alienating its more orthodox members. Catt and Anthony, NAWSA's president at the time, met with Stanton prior to its publication to voice their concerns, but Stanton was unmoved. Catt and another future NAWSA president, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, supported a resolution stating that "NAWSA has no official connection with the so-called "Woman's Bible"."