The distinctions between combat and non-combat assignments for women have become increasingly silly and irrelevant in light of the present realities of the Iraq war. The girls sent by President Bush to Iraq are in harms way, and the high number of them in a “non-combat” role who have been shot or blown to pieces and sent home in body bags testifies to this reality.

The AP reports states: “The Washington Times reports that the Bush Administration is now meeting with Army personnel to consider lifting a ban on women in combat. The AP reports: “The US Army is negotiating with the Pentagon’s civilian leaders a plan to eliminate a women-in-combat ban so it can place mixed-sex support companies within war fighting units, starting with a division going to Iraq in January, says The Washington Times. Citing unnamed defense department sources, the newspaper said Army blueprints for a lighter force of 10 active divisions included plans for postings of mixed-sex units. A spokesman said the Army is now in discussions with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s staff to see whether the 10-year-old ban in this one area should be lifted, The Times said.”

While this potential policy change is essentially the codification of practices that are already happening in Iraq, a formal policy directive to place women in combat is, nonetheless, the next wrongheaded step toward boiling the proverbial frog in the pot.

Who will join us in speaking out against this national sin of shame? What future do we bequeath to our sons and daughters when the men of today are too effeminate to recognize and speak out against the horror of girls being sent to die for men? Is there yet a witness of professing Christians in this nation who believe in the Christian principle memorialized in the maxim “women and children first”? Where are the pulpits denouncing the practice? Where are our spokesmen in Christian radio and print media who will come to the defense of future generations of daughters destined to be drafted and sent to their deaths as policemen for the world, because this generation of Christian was more concerned with partisan politics, than the crown rights of Jesus Christ?

In future years we must not fail to remember that it was 2003-2005 that the collective conscience of the Church in America was finally seared concerning the “abomination” of women soldiers being sent to die in combat. To read more about what the Bible says about women in combat, and why God calls it an “abomination,” click here:

http://www.visionforumministries.org/sections/hotcon/ht/womeninmilitary/