“The gender-bending Palins”
...A man’s greatest fulfillment is achieved through his family role as the guide, protector and provider, as Aubrey Andelin states in “Man of Steel and Velvet.” Proverbs 31 says that he is “recognized at the city meetings and he makes decisions as one of the leaders of the land.”
According to Bryce J. Christensen, author of “Divided We Fall: Family Discord and the Fracturing of America,” feminist activist groups in the ‘90s “called for complete integration of women into all military operations, including those of combat units.” Their goal was to put women into “macho posts” not previously held by women. This moves us closer to the feminist dream that a woman may one day be commander in chief of the armed forces of our nation.
Christensen also states, “Utopian designs for masculinizing women, marginalizing men and vaporizing family homes are far more than literary fantasies. At least two real-world political movements – Marxism and feminism – have devoted considerable effort to pursuing [such] utopian objectives.”
How ironic that Christian conservatives rightly faulting Obama as a socialist so readily applaud Palin whose feminist views, whether realized or not, share much in common with Marxism.
Praised as virtuous by desperate conservatives, Sarah and Todd Palin fit nicely into today’s modern version of Christianity where true masculinity in the form of family leadership is absent, and women abdicate feminine roles in the home.
Christensen says, “Anyone who understands American culture, anyone who understands American family life, anyone who understands the American military knows that men – masculine, manly, chivalric men – are necessary. We desperately need such men – just as we need feminine women – to restore gender sanity, family integrity and military strength.”
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...While Sarah Palin may be the darling of the pro-life movement, she is no sweetheart of the pro-family community. Its leaders could be in for some unpleasant surprises.
So not only does ms. St John believe that 'conservatives' are people who already approve of gender role reversal, but she believes those of us that don't are too stupid to realize that Palin is an acceptable candidate, but not an ideal one?
Christian conservatives don't need a perfect, infallible human messiah; we already have a real one. We want a person with integrity, a backbone, and similar views.
Sarah Palin has not asked the military to put women anywhere. As for having any fears about a woman commander-in-chief, Deborah was asked to help lead the Israelite army by the very man who was supposed to lead the army. They defeated the enemy and just as Deborah predicted, God gave the victory into the hands of a woman.
If your fear of Palin is due to some misplaced fear of a woman leading the military, I can only say I would rather have the military led by a godly woman, than any number of atheistic, agnostic, apostate, Islamic, or pagan men. Again, God works in mysterious ways. I am not one to question Him.
Again I say Deborah was a woman whom God chose to counsel Israel and men who were normally chosen to do that job were ignored by God. Read Judges 4 and 5. I hope that you don’t hang on so tight to the counsels of men that you ignore God’s ability to work.
38And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:
39But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
Acts 5:38, 39