John Piper has a short blog on women in combat. I agree strongly with his position. As retired military, the snowballing trend to increase the combat role of women in the U.S. military increasingly alarms me. It signals a fundamental and frightening shift in our culture’s understanding of the roles of men versus women.

As Piper says in the related article Coed Combat and Cultural Cowardice, “A man who endorses women in combat is not pro-woman; he’s a wimp. He should be ashamed. For most of history, in most cultures, he would have been utterly scorned as a coward to promote such an idea. Part of the meaning of manhood as God created us is the sense of responsibility for the safety and welfare of our women.”

Amen. Call it political correctness or enlightened understanding or anything you want … at it’s heart, it’s cowardice plain, pure and simple.

The rise of militant feminism over the past 30 years (even among evangelicals) has blurred the crucial God-ordained distinction between men and women. No wonder confusion is rampant for both genders in our society. With 20 years that I spent in the military from 1975 - 1995 (the time that the “suicidal songs of egalitarian folly” empowered militant feminists and cowered political and military leaders) I have a perspective that Piper does not. And what I saw/see is even more frightening than what Piper sees.

Piper is absolutely right that there “are a lot of military people who think women in combat is a horrible idea, but it’s career suicide to say it.” In other words, let the women die.” They still have their career.

God help us.

Bob
Fides Quaerens Intellectum
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Bob Pratico
Fides Quaerens Intellectum
(my Sojourn blog)