{"id":880,"date":"2008-09-02T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/09\/02\/its-a-good-question\/"},"modified":"2008-09-06T21:58:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T05:58:42","slug":"its-a-good-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/09\/02\/its-a-good-question\/","title":{"rendered":"it’s a good question"},"content":{"rendered":"

A letter writer to my newspaper, The National Post<\/em>, asks this question about the Republican vice-presidential nominee:<\/p>\n

Re: The Culture Wars Continue, Father Raymond J. de Souza, Aug. 30. Father Raymond J. de Souza\u2019s subtle endorsement of Sarah Palin is interesting. How can a woman be second in charge of the most influential country on Earth and not able to be ordained in his Church?<\/p>\n

Just asking. Eric Madden, Collingwood, Ont.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Raymond de Souza is a Roman Catholic priest who has a regular column in the Post<\/em>. A column I rarely look at and almost never finish, by the way.<\/p>\n

But the letter writer asks a good question, one for which Independent Baptists and other fundamentalist Christians should have a good, biblical answer.<\/p>\n

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Does political office by women involve a usurpation of God-defined roles of male and female? Or not? Or are there such roles at all? Are they limited only to home and church? Surely the roles as we understand them certainly apply to the home, but then, what, in this case, about Sarah Palin’s home?<\/p>\n

Doesn’t it strike one as just a bit odd about the kind of relationship a woman in a position like this has with her own husband? How can the power of Governor-ship (or of the vice presidential office) be compatible with her God-appointed role of submission to her own husband?<\/p>\n

The recent news about the Palin’s daughter is really a side show, but it might be emblematic of the problems role reversals and usurping God’s order produce. That is not to say that if only mom had been at home, none of this would have happened. But it does call mom’s judgement into question at least a little bit. And it calls John McCain’s judgement into question as well, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n

While I understand the political positives about this selection by McCain, I can’t be wholly enthusiastic about it. It may help boost McCain to victory, which, considering the abominable alternative, I heartily hope for.<\/p>\n

But a woman as vice-president? A woman we wouldn’t ordain to the ministry? Can we check our enthusiasm and partisanship<\/a> a little bit on this? Could we be a little circumspect in the effusiveness of our praise? Could we, perhaps, be consistent with our beliefs in the mandates of Scripture?<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/strong><\/span> A similar theme<\/a> sounded over on the Bayly bros. blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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