It never ceases to amaze me at how quickly a nation can become so foolish about some of the most important issues of life. Let me say first that I understand that in some circles, women are treated like dirt by selfish, lustful, greedy men. Though some are not altogether innocent, considering their dress, mannerisms and ambitions, I am adamantly opposed to the disrespect that many women endure.
Like so many issues, our culture deals with social ills by going to the opposite extreme in hope of reparation. On this particular topic, those who deplore the error of both extremes are viewed as either womanizers or misogynists, depending on who is talking.
Truth is that women were never intended by God to be men or to act like men. God made us male and female and gave us the temperament, emotional perspective, physique, anatomy, etc. to fulfill our roles.
Common sense agrees with the Bible: What father or mother would want his/her daughter to be drafted into the armed services and ushered to the front line to fight some burly man trained in the art of hand to hand combat? What kind of man would have his daughter work with a crew of ungodly linemen who huddle in the crew cab of a truck bunched together for warmth in the cold of winter? What thinking man would have his grandchildren raised in a day care so that his daughter could scale the corporate ladder?
If we hope to regain any sanity in this God blessed country, we had better return to the moral moorings that kept us on the right track in the early years.
God said, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church… Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; (Ephesians 5:22, 23, 25)” “That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. (Titus 2:4–5)”