Since our previous post on Saturday, more Christians on the blogosphere have added their voices—or their keyboards—to speak out against the calamity we face in seeing a woman elected to the second highest office in the land.
Pastor Scott Brown: “Will Christian young ladies find a role model in Sarah Palin? We should beware because she does not promote the biblical vision of womanhood. She is not keeper at home (Titus 2:5). She is not a helper to her husband ( Genesis 2:18). She is building the kingdom of another man not her husband (Prov 31). Her lifestyle proclaims, “you can have it all - wife, mother, executive.” See full article.
Pastor Kevin Swanson: “We’re just not quite sure a feminist governor from Alaska with a year’s experience in governance (not to mention her 17-year-old daughter pregnant out of wedlock doing her part to contribute to the further demise of the family), working for John McCain will do any more than GWB did to salvage the economy, halt the growth of government, repair the family, and quiet the Sodomites beating down our doors. Call it a breach in confidence. Oh well. At least her daughter wasn’t a lesbian.” See full article.
Dr. Voddie Baucham: “Ironically, the Neocons are merely using Mrs. Palin as a political pawn. She is beloved because she gives them the coveted ‘moral high ground’ in the upcoming debates. Read recent articles and the goals become clear. We must win on abortion. She makes it hard to argue for it. We must win on the race/gender issue. She gives us a woman to their ethnic minority. We must win on being young and hip. Obama is 47; Palin is 44. We must win the ‘change’ argument. Obama is new to Washington; Palin has never served there. Checkmate! Unfortunately, this political pawn represents a fatal worldview flaw. In an effort to win the pro-family political argument, we are sacrificing the pro-family biblical argument. In essence, the message being sent to women by conservative Christians backing McCain/Palin is, ‘It’s ok to sacrifice your family on the altar of your career; just don’t have an abortion.’ How pro-family is that?” See full article.
Pastor Bill Einwechter, Th.M: “To assert that God’s Word permits a woman to hold civil office and that Christians have the liberty to support a woman for the position of civil magistrate means that one has to deny the biblical teaching on the headship of man, reject the qualifications for civil rulers set down in the law of God, ignore the biblical picture of the virtuous woman, and close his or her ears to the biblical lament of women ruling over men. The example of Deborah does not give sufficient evidence to prove that she held the office of civil ruler or to overturn the biblical doctrine that men alone are called of God to the office of civil magistrate. Therefore, Christians should not support a woman for the office of civil magistrate. It is imperative that Christians labor to restore God’s order for the family, the church, and the state.” See full article.
Jennie Chancey: “Have we completely lost our ‘righteous resistance?’ I’ll grant that Sarah Palin is a die-hard pro-life, pro-gun, pro-family conservative, but why aren’t the pundits stopping to ask the obvious question? Why is a wife and mother with five children (including a newborn with Down’s syndrome) running for vice president? She has a bountiful amount of work cut out for her by the Lord sitting in her lap and around her dining room table. I can certainly respect her Christian and biblical views, but I am really amazed at Christians leaping to embrace putting a wife and mother into political office—particularly an office that will essentially make her the helpmate of the highest official in the land and practically remove her from her husband and children.” See full article.
Kim Coghlan: “So many of us agree on the complementary roles of women and men in the home and in the church, yet our own sisters and brothers in Christ are denying that this aspect of our very nature has any influence in the third sphere of God-originating authority: that of civil government. What are they thinking? But it’s not just about Palin’s gender. There are other issues that ought to dampen the enthusiasm of Palin’s Christian fans. She supports tax-payer funded contraceptives and sex-ed in schools. She vetoed pro-family legislation in Alaska, guaranteeing special rights to homosexuals. And she is a self-proclaimed feminist.” See full article.
Carmon Friedrich: “First and foremost, the Bible speaks plainly that men are to be chosen for positions of covenant headship in government, just as they are covenant leaders in home and church. Deborah, who sat under her own tree and judged as judgment from God for the apostate Israel (Judges 4:1-3), was hardly in an ideal situation nor was it typical for God’s people to have a woman in that position of leadership as we know from every other example of godly rulers in civil and ecclesiastical spheres being men (Queen Esther did not rule as one of Ahasuerus’s wives).” See full article.
Anna Sofia & Elizabeth Botkin: “In the opinion of just two of these American daughters, this picture is troubling, and brings with it promises of more trouble. Part of the tragedy, as we see it, is that it’s not just secular feminists who are excited about this future. Christians across the nation are cheering the entrance of Mrs. Palin, forgetting that, according to the biblical qualifications for a civil magistrate, she as a woman is not qualified to hold this office (Ex. 18:21, Pro. 31:23, 1 Tim. 2:12).[1] We believe that Mrs. Palin’s appointment as civil ruler, and indeed the feminist strides that made it possible, are a judgment from God (Isa. 3:12). We’re already suffering from one consequence of this judgment more severely than America realizes.” See full article.
Jasmine Baucham: “Is it odd that we Christians, commanded to take every thought captive (2 Corinthians 10:5) feel like our “hands are tied” in this election, that we are forced to vote for the lesser of two evils, that the vote otherwise would be “wasting” our vote? I think it is. It boggles my mind to think that, if Christians would not, in good conscience, vote for John McCain in any other instance, would rally together and vote for a man who really espoused the values they hold dear... we may not win an election, but the numbers would certainly get people’s attention.” See full article.
Nathaniel Darnell: “For a woman to take civil authority over a man, even a man who is not her husband, would be to violate the principle stated in I Corinthians 11:3: “But I would have you to know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.” A woman assuming authority over a man in any context would be as awful as a man seeking to assume authority over Christ, or Christ assuming authority over His Heavenly Father.” See full article.
Paul Vaughn: “The most liberal translation of Scriptures clearly shows the normative pattern for women is to be their husband’s (not some other man’s) helpmate. Many seem to be willing to give Palin a free pass on this issue, because she is pro-life, or because she may help to keep a muslim out of office, or for some other “noble” reason. I’m at a loss to understand their thinking, or at least in my ability to see it as Biblical. Perhaps, we have just become so use to feminist dogma in this age of female preachers, priest, and senators that we are tainted. Perhaps, we are so influenced by the culture around us that we are simply unable to think like Christians any more.” See full article.
Caleb Hayden: “God has called women to the distinctive roles of wife and mother, plain and simple. Paul tells women to be ‘keepers at home’ in Titus 2. God has called men to stand in the gates and lead within the civil realm, as we see throughout Scripture with precious few exceptions. Many will mock this position as outdated, chauvinistic, sexist, and worse. At best, the position will strike many as ‘unfair.’ Indeed, it is unfair. God is not an egalitarian. He did not ordain men and women to function with the same roles and responsibilities. For example, in Genesis 3, God cursed the man’s responsibility of subduing the earth and taking dominion over the ground; men would have to wrestle with thorns and thistles and sweat to provide bread for their families. In turn, He cursed the woman’s role of bearing children by ordaining travail in childbirth.” See full article.
Elijah Brown: “I am fully convinced that a great deal of Christians will follow the Republican Party into the gates of hell as long as they can continue to convince them that it is better than being a democrat. (It reminds me of the piggish phrase in Animal Farm, ‘Surely you do not want Jones to come back, anything is better than Jones!’)I can say this because I have witnessed the fact that what the Republican Party calls ‘family values’ holds more sway with evangelical voters than the Scripture’s teaching on the family. The majority of Christians today stand in the shoes of the rabid liberal God haters of yesterday, under the all inclusive evangelical banner.” See full article.
Bret McAtee: “While Christians must continue to insist that it is against Scripture to vote for a female magistrate as our political covenant head, we must at the same time insist that Palin is right about many of the issues on which she has taken stands.” See full article.