“You’ve Come A Long Way Baby”
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
Equal Rights or Equal Opportunity do not guarantee an Equality of Outcome. There is no guarantee of outcome contained in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Should groups desire equal opportunities to debase themselves because other groups have chosen to? God Himself ordained the gender roles in the human race as assuredly as He ordained the institutions of Human Government and the Church (Genesis, Ephesians, I Timothy, I Corinthians, etc). He defines these institutions as well as marriage, therefore they are not open to interpretation or perversion of the lines delegated by Him. This seems to be the dilemma women have faced in modern society.
Since the Sixties, Feminists have preached independence of their gender. No need for a husband to enjoy happiness. The birthcontrol pill freed her to run with the fornicating men on equal footing. Legalized abortion, after 1973, allowed her the free choice of erasing any mistake her actions accidentally led to. The importance of career took precedence over marriage and children. Breaking the glass ceiling was of greater importance as she entered professional fields filled only with men traditionally. Entry to the martial occupational specialties meant quicker promotions in the Armed Forces. The result– out of the nursing programs and clerical work and into the battlefield, the navy ship, and fighterjet cockpit. Breaking barriers to the service academies, West Point, Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy werent enough; private schools like the Virginia Military Institute and Citadel must be forced open as well.
What’s the result of this women’s fight for equal rights? Where has it led them? According to statistics from Forsyth County this year:
Forsyth County households headed by single women with related children under the age of 18 have the highest poverty rates– nearly 44%
10% of elderly women live in poverty; almost twice the rate of elderly men
Teenage pregnancy rates in the county are up, w/ 67 out of 1,000 girls 15 to 19 becoming pregnant; 58 out of 1,000 across the state of NC
The Forsyth County District Atty’s Office handled 2,900 cases of domestic violence in 2009, mostly involving female victims up from 2,400 in 2007
Since 1973, the US has averaged 1,000,000 abortions per year. An innocent child is murdered, but a young woman’s life is scarred physically as well as psychologically.
The number of STDs, some incurable, some causing death, has exploded exponentially among young unmarried people in the last twenty years.
As a British newspaper wrote after reports of blood-letting during the Terror of the French Revolution: “Are these the Rights of [wo]man?” The French revolutionaries thought they were going down the right path, but look where it led. Did they obtain new rights merely to rob them from others and slaughters thousands of innocent people?
Blur the lines God ordains; let Man pervert His institutions as they see fit; live outside the guidelines he set for the human race; but do it at your own peril. We are witnesses to the slow erosion of American society. We dont have to be conquered from without; America can wither from within as Rome and Britain before us. May God have mercy on our national soul.
