Our Christian Daughters Potentially Subject to Selective Service Registration

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 â€œrightsâ€ 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 childrenâ€™s families.

The mind set of people in high places in Washington has obviously come to conclude, â€œMany women want to be deployed with men in combat, so all women must be made subject to itâ€”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

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 womenâ€™s organizations have also pushed for the rights of women to serve in foxholes alongside men. Military generals are now therefore saying, â€œOkay, women want to serve in combat, we should make it a requirement for women to also register for the draftâ€”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 congressmanâ€™s military issues spokesman, but it is being done without any change in law. Thatâ€™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, â€œWomen are just driving trucks for the soldiers, they are not actually in combat.â€ 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, â€œThe women are not classified as being in combat, they are just driving the trucks or the Humvees.â€ 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 donâ€™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(!)â€”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 reasonâ€”college money, financial income, a careerâ€”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 issuesâ€”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, letâ€™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 Christâ€™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

I’m with you. I still type correct spelling and grammar on texts. The only times errors show up is if I’m “speaking to text”. Most folks know if I did that because of the (sometimes funny) translation errors.

I don’t know about NJ, but I know in both MA and RI, schools aren’t teaching cursive writing anymore. WTF? How are you supposed to sign your name, for example.

Insane. The dumbing down continues...

In Anglo districts here in NJ they still teach cursive, but kids rarely use it because so many assignments are typed (and submitted electronically). As far as the urban schools, I honestly don’t believe they teach writing at all beyond third grade.

I guess you just “make your mark” instead of sign a real name; I guess those students can’t read the Declaration of Independence.

Two results of this dumbing down that I’ve observed are 1)the replacement of many blacks in the white collar/clerical workforce by Hispanics (it is commonly acknowledged that Hispanics are displacing blacks, but never analyzed as to why), and 2) the presence in any department, regardless of how low-skilled the work may be, of an Anglo “scribe” - often the only person who can write/type a coherent email or letter.

Even if it’s not used much, or at all, at least the kids there are exposed to cursive. Here it’s just eliminated. I was shocked when I gave a BDay card to one of my friend’s daughters (she was 9 at the time) and she asked me to read what I wrote (”Happy Birthday Abby”) because she couldn’t. I asked both parents about this and they confirmed that cursive wasn’t taught in their school district anymore. Sad.

The urban areas? You could probably have some real (tragic) comedy coming out of them. You could have “Man or Elephant” comparisons, like they do with paintings.

“They” don’t want people to be able to read the Declaration of Independence. C’mon, now! It was written by old, racist, white men...

Hispanics replacing blacks: They don’t typically have a “built in” attitude.

Anglo scribe: Yep. Someone, somewhere in an organization needs to literate.

Agreed, and while any are subject to the draft, they should be the only citizens eligible to vote. Female or aged out? Fine, but no voting for you then.

If I read this correctly, you are saying that I should not be able to vote because I am too old to be drafted. Never mind that I pay taxes, I am a veteran, or anything else - only those who can be conscripted can vote?

I hope you either forgot the sarcasm tag or you wrote something that didn't say what you meant.

That’s a shame with the 9 year-old; I hope she picks it up at some point.

The “Anglo scribe” position is increasing in visibility in my area because there is literally an evacuation of Americans; many “Anglos” you meet have an accent (usually Eastern European) - which is fine (my wife is a foreigner), but most won’t be proofreading anything. At this point the spelling errors on our news programs are increasing in frequency.

I hope she does and her brother does too. Sad.

I haven’t seen the areas of evacuation in MA like you describe (it probably exists in cities like Lawrence and Lowell, but I have zero reason to go to either place), but I can see what you mean. It’s just tragic what’s happened/happening to this country.

I partly meant it, at least the sentiment of the statement, and I would lose the vote by that standard as well. But the desired solution is to do away with the draft. Paying taxes and voluntary military service are commendable, but they are nothing in comparison to being made an unwilling combatant; I can’t escape the feeling that only those subject to the greatest risk should hold the greatest privilege. There’s something disturbing about the idea of us old guys (and all females) sitting in relative safety and saying,”sorry junior, but we’ve decided that you’re going to play soldier now. Sure hope you survive intact” The very existence of a draft says something about national morale and cohesiveness. If America cannot engender the loyalty necessary to maintain volunteer forces sufficient for defense, then she deserves defeat.

Selective service is not the draft. It is used as a way to preserve the draft in case of national emergency.

The American Revolution was pursued in large part due to “taxation without representation. To disallow taxpayers (those that pay more in than they take out) from voting would be the same situation. Similarly, to disallow those who have long been subject to the government in their work life to vote because they have aged past fighting is the same.

Aging out of voting also robs the nation of needed perspective.

I cannot agree with your idea here. I could easily see taking away voting from non taxpayers, but the military and age guidelines are anathema to a free citizenry.

Selective service is not the draft in the same way that registration of firearms is not the same as confiscation of firearms. I am not suggesting making the change by fiat, but by vote as a matter of conscience. You would vote to give up the franchise to those whose lives might be thrown away by act of the State. It’s kind of akin to the segregation era. Everybody had the vote, so what was the problem? Well, it was a big problem if you happened to be black. Look—I’m arguing an absurdity to point out what I see as a basic injustice. It’s an equal protection issue. If men must register, women must register, but really nobody should register. Age was just kind of a toss in when I should have simply limited it to barring women from the vote, since essentially all living men have been subject to registration. As for older folks having valuable perspective, that is often true, but there is no shortage of old fools.

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