Posted on 02/06/2016 4:36:00 PM PST by John Leland 1789
An Open Letter to Independent Baptist Pastors
in the Indiana 9th Congressional District.
February 3, 2016 (Revised)
Our Christian Daughters Potentially Subject to Selective Service Registration
Dear Pastors:
At some point you will have to develop a genuine conviction from the Scriptures on issues related to (1) Christian women serving in the Armed Forces; (2) Christian women serving in combat roles; (3) Christian women being required by federal law to register for Selective Service (register for the draft).
American women have pushed their “rights†to serve in military functions alongside men, including in combat roles, to the point that now top Generals and others in Washington, DC are recommending that all American women be required to register for the draft at age 18 (draft age remains 18 to 25 years old).
Pastors, how will we counsel families who want to teach their daughters and granddaughters to be Titus Chapter 2 women? What about Christian families who have trained their children to build Biblical homes and families? The world and the devil want to destroy your church families, their children, and their children’s families.
The mind set of people in high places in Washington has obviously come to conclude, “Many women want to be deployed with men in combat, so all women must be made subject to it—this is equality.â€
We provide for you here two current Internet web sites which give a good idea as to how many people in Washington and elsewhere are viewing this subject:
http://www.examiner.com/article/should-women-have-to-sign-up-for-the-draft-military-officials-think-so?cid=sm-ip-facebook-020216-7.30pm-WomenInTheDraft
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/generals-women-register-draft-36665774
The Selective Service System exists to provide the U.S. Army with adequate numbers of combat troops when necessary in time of war. There has been no draft since 1973, but the Selective Service System has been left in place in case it is needed in future armed conflicts.
The Selective Service System does not exist to provide nurses or office workers, but only to provide ground combat troops (although even ground combat troops often must cook, do medical tasks, drive vehicles, etc.). Many American women have decided they want to be in combat duty with men, and some women’s organizations have also pushed for the rights of women to serve in foxholes alongside men. Military generals are now therefore saying, “Okay, women want to serve in combat, we should make it a requirement for women to also register for the draft—this is equal treatment.â€
It is our firm belief from the Scriptures that all of this flies directly in the face of sound Biblical Christian teaching on the family, home, womanhood, and motherhood. We preachers must take a stand.
My wife and I have four daughters. Two of our daughters are still young enough to be subject to registering for the military draft if the Congress is soon pressured sufficiently to change the Selective Service laws to include females. We also have, thus far, four granddaughters. Three of them would be subject to having to register for the draft.
We have been following this issue for twenty years. We have on file responses from elected representatives who served up to twenty years ago and are out of office now, including U.S. Representatives Lee Hamilton, Baron Hill, and Mike Sodrel. None of these believed we would ever see women in combat, so they also scoffed at my suggestion that one day women could be required to register for the draft.
But now we are actually hearing top military generals recommending to Congress that women from 18 to 25 years of age be required to register for the draft. Congress must be the body to change the Selective Service law to require women to register. The Pentagon nor the Selective Service System can put this into practice without Congress.
But(!) Congress is required to change federal law to allow women to serve in combat roles, too, according our congressman’s military issues spokesman, but it is being done without any change in law. That’s right! It should actually be illegal still to deploy females in combat roles or on front lines. Are the Armed Services are breaking the law? They get around this in discussion by saying things like, “Women are just driving trucks for the soldiers, they are not actually in combat.†Of course, they are dressed for combat, equipped for combat, trained for combat, armed with the same weapons as the men for combat, in the same combat vehicles on the same battle field, some of them maimed or killed alongside male combat soldiers. Some have been taken prisoner by the enemy! But according to a Washington staffer for U.S. Rep. Todd Young (R-IN) named Andrew Terp, “The women are not classified as being in combat, they are just driving the trucks or the Humvees.†All reading this letter know that this is simply subterfuge! This is lying! This is a way to worm around law and decency for political correctness!
Pastors! What will you say when young women, including young mothers, tell you that they were forced to register for the draft? What will you preach about family, home, motherhood, and childrearing, when and if young women and young mothers in your church tell you that they have been drafted into the Army and will serve in the infantry? What will you say when you know that godly young women will be forced to hang up their modest clothing and don combat uniforms and gear just like men?
You don’t have to tell us that many young women from independent Baptist churches are already voluntarily enlisting in the Armed Forces, that many are already dressing in camouflage battle dress just like men and undergoing combat-related training. They are part of the reason that Generals have come to think this is normal and so women should also be subject to any potential draft. Thanks a lot, girls(!)—you set an incredibly good Christian example! No, you have not!
Yes, even professing Christian girls, even many from our independent Baptist churches, have enlisted in the modern, politically correct Armed Forces and have abandoned their Christian modesty, example, and discretion. For whatever reason—college money, financial income, a career—they have damaged the next generation already with their young lives by failure to live Biblically. They also damage the nation at large in its Christian heritage. Much of this has resulted from failure in pulpits to consistently teach the saints what the Bible says about family, home, womanhood, motherhood, childrearing and training, purity, personal Christian witness, and many other subjects. Some times good teaching and preaching is simply ignored by families or young people, or rebellion against the Scriptures and preaching occurs.
The many thousands of women now trying to be just like men in the Armed Forces are the impetus and force behind the politically correct attitudes in the Pentagon, and now my own daughters and granddaughters, and yours, could be in serious conflict and danger. Think of your calling and your pastoral office. You will have to preach the Bible to families and young people through this potential threat upon Christian families and young women.
We urge you, Pastors, to explain these dangers to your church. These are not political issues; these are BIBLE issues—Christian family issues. We also urge you to begin a writing campaign to your federal elected representatives and try to prevent any change to the Selective Service law(s) that require women to register for Selective Service (the draft). If you fear to write letters because of your church has 501(c)(3) status, you could request Christians in your church to organize a letter-writing effort separately from the church, officially.
If you or any members of your church would like to have model letters to elected representatives on this subject, we will be glad to provide some. If you or your people write letters of your own and would allow us to have copies, we could pass them along to others as models.
Pastors, let’s not allow Washington to further damage our society in this way, or make it all the more difficult to raise Christ-honoring families with children available for Christ’s service.
Feel free to contact us with regard to our continued research and communications with elected officials. My mobile phone number is [Withheld] Our email is baptistcommittee@nym.hush.com or bcoc@pamphleteernet.com
Thank you for your kind attention for the sake of our daughters, families, our posterity, and our nation
In the Surety of His Blood,
Robert E. Patenaude, Th.D.
Philippians 1:6; 2:13
Is this satire?
I wrote my Congress Person the following “ If you are going to sit there and do nothing while women go to combat, then get your money gubbin A$$ in gear to register them for the DRAFT!!” No darn response!! We defeated the ERA but we are doing it anyway? What is this crap?
If combat roles are indeed left open to women, as appears will be the case, then women will and should register for the draft. There's that equality yah' asked for, girls.
This was the logical outcome of not only feminists but men - both left and right - encouraging their daughters to join the military. Some of us knew this would end up being a problem. Some of us were outraged at seeing our daughters coming home in body bags or mutilated - but no one on the right or the left - said a word. This is what comes of “good” people standing by and saying nothing.
Re: Many American women have decided they want to be in combat duty with men, and some women’s organizations have also pushed for the rights of women to serve in foxholes alongside men.
Many? I don’t think so. A few? Yes. Some left wing politicians? Yes.
I missed all the “immodest” combat uniforms in the Army.
Well, maybe at this party once...
If a woman isn't qualified, she will serve her tour as typist or riveter.
If she can shoot, she'll be a sniper.
No American should be drafted, ever.
Talk to any modern young woman, and most will tell you that girls can do ANYTHING men can do, better than men, and look fabulous doing it...Between the self-esteem BS being hawked in the schools, movies and TV portraying women as "badasses" capable of karate-chopping hulking bad guys into submission, and a lack of respect for gender roles (and gender entirely), we have come to this. I guess when society believes that you can change your gender by "identifying" as something you are not, it's not shocking that the basic reality that women are physically weaker and smaller and more delicate than men, is ignored.
Obuma didn't get there by himself did he? (and I'm not sticking up the gay muslim)...
And our Representatives and Senators that have been re elected how many times, didn't get there by themselves did they?
That's why this election is so important to decide who to choose as POTUS...and those coming up for re election again...are we going to keep doing the same thing over and over again?
I'm not, I'm going a different direction this time, either the Country is going to be saved, or it's going to go the hell...it's only up to us...
Don’t ask for equality and then say “Oh, we didn’t mean we wanted to be put in potential danger!” I had to register for the draft AFTER I had already served two enlistments in the Army.
That's the scariest, most absurd part of this debacle -- a lot of women DO want to be put in danger, because they actually believe that they are physically equal to men.
If it is any consolation, I doubt any American will ever be drafted again. After the engineers of the war in Vietnam later admitted it was a mistake (and weren’t imprisoned for war crimes), the government lost the moral authority to impress anyone into military service.
[ This problem goes beyond the military. Many women have been scorning their natural role for some time now, and as a result a large portion of society views all people, men and women, as abort-able, expendable, interchangeable cogs.]
That in particular is a directly stated GOAL by the communists.
Yes, I agree. And men have quit looking after women. You only have to look at the “refugee” problem in Europe to see that men no are no longer interested in taking care of women.
I think you’re spot on in suggesting that modern people look at others as “cogs.”
I remember a few years ago a woman serving in Iraq was a truck driver and was captured by the enemy. She was raped by 50-60 men.
She was then rescued and immediately discharged and completely disappeared. The government was determined to prevent her from having any contact with the real world lest people find out what happens to women in combat.
From the sparse accounts about her, she was supposed to have had a total breakdown and was relegated to a psychiatric hospital.
Even women in the Israeli military are barred from combat. They tried it in Israel with disastrous results. They will put women in combat here in the US and get a lot of people killed but in a leftists brain ideology is worth as many lives as necessary to support it.
This country has spent decades marginalizing men, and many have responded by simply dropping out of society (beyond working); while they are mocked for living at home later in life and not marrying/breeding, they are nobody’s fools.
Let the people who were moved to the front of the line because of their gender/ethnicity die for the country they’ve commandeered.
I’m a very short distance from having to use a wheelchair and the percentage of women who could take me on, much less a physically fit average man, is in the single digits.
I wonder if Hillary as a feminist trailblazer ever registered ?
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