{"id":28513,"date":"2014-03-12T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=28513"},"modified":"2016-09-26T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T15:10:16","slug":"is-it-biblical-for-women-to-lead-in-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/12\/is-it-biblical-for-women-to-lead-in-the-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it Biblical for Women to Lead in the Military?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Al Mohler answered an interesting question raised in his weekly podcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Is it Biblical for a woman to be a political or military leader?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite stereotype, most Christians<\/em> don’t have this question. The question is most often posed by non<\/em>-Christians hoping to make hay with Christians who haven’t thought much beyond the text of 1 Timothy.<\/p>\n

Dr. Mohler provides a reasoned, though not necessarily short, reply:\u00a0 <\/p>\n

“God has given us a pattern of relationships and responsibilities between men and women especially in two spheres… the church and a home…”<\/p>\n

But there are different spheres of human involvement, Mohler said. “There’s an artistic sphere and there’s a cultural sphere; there is, of course, a political sphere, and there’s an economic sphere, and…there’s a military sphere as well…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He then specifically addressed the military:<\/p>\n

“It’s very important that women not be in combat. I think that’s a very clear principle in the Scripture…that men are to be the protectors of women. We’re not to ask women to be the protectors of men in that sense.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While there is certainly a Biblical model for this question, until the mid-1990s the US military accepted precisely the same paradigm for non-religious reasons. In the 1990s, the US military opened the fighter pilot career field to women. In January 2013<\/a>, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta unilaterally ended the exclusion of women from ground combat, marking the end to major restrictions on women in combat in the US military.<\/p>\n

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