SBC Pres warns that women getting too smart

When he isn't telling the men in his seminary classes to get ready to charge a gunman, Paige Patterson is suggesting that women are getting too educated and undermining the family. Sigh.

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Paige Patterson says families need to be concerned that in America, 60% of college students are female. He predicts that in a few years, men will be increasingly underrepresented among "the intelligentsia" and will gradually cede leadership in many areas to women.

And this is bad. Evidently. Though, and I am not trying to be TOO mean here, but "Dr." Patterson, what do you know about the "intelligentsia?"

"Instead of encouraging adolescents to cut the apron strings of mother and venture out into society, we are begging mothers not to cut the apron strings [to] their babies and catapult them prematurely into a menacing world," said the two-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention. "Mom and hot apple pie have been replaced by institutional daycare centers and cold apple turnovers at McDonald's."

Right, because the idealized family of the 1950s is the way it always was until the feminists and the liberals and the gays started speaking out. Oh, and none of this is the fault of, wait for it, capitalism? Nope. Women.

Patterson warned the more than 3,000 people attending World Congress of Families IV that the traditional family unit is now under attack worldwide. He said this assault was initially focused in Western Europe and North America, but has now spread to other societies that seemed immune to family disintegration.

A biblical model of the family is key to restoring social order in the world, stated the Southern Baptist leader. Although innocents continue to be executed in the womb by their mothers and divorce is "eviscerating family life on every hand," said Patterson, there is still hope for the world.

Sigh.

Double Sigh.

What a moron.