The SBC president, who appointed that committee, would later say, "The wife should not be burdened with the necessity of working outside the home."Up is down, right is wrong, pre-marital pregos is great, Palin is a reformer, and God only dislikes pushy women who take charge in their house. Or a church. But they can rule a country. No problem.
When he was chairman of the SBC's Council on Family Life in 2003, he said, "Particular attention should be given to the specific roles established in the Scripture for the husband and the wife in the areas of provision and management. The husband should be vocationally focused and able to provide for his family."
Now SBC leaders are reinterpreting their statement.
None does so more dishonestly that a seminary professor who wrote last week that "the Baptist Faith and Message does not address the question of women in secular leadership, only spiritual leadership."
Jeesh. And these are the people lecturing us on moral absolutes?
5 comments:
"Written on an Etch-a-Sketch" is good. I had one of those when I was a kid. I liked that if I didn't like the way something was drawn, I could end it over and redraw.
Oh, wait.
They're going to take you to the Ministry of Love and put you in a room with rats for that kind of talk...I love Big Brother!
Sara
Oh man! I don't know how they do it.
She should be quiet and listen to her husband, but then it's ok for her to run the country... i just don't get it.
It's kind of an inversion of the usual healthy twofold standard of having stricter requirements for the in-group than for outsiders. Christian women can do whatever they want and be God's woman for God's time, but non-Christian women had better stop being uppity and trying to have careers, or else God might get mad and withdraw his covering (is that like stealing the blankets?) or some such fearmongering tripe.
else God might get mad and withdraw his covering
I've always thought of it as some kind of Saran wrap.
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