{"id":35642,"date":"2016-08-02T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T03:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=35642"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:12:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:12:59","slug":"column-drafting-women-violates-religious-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/02\/column-drafting-women-violates-religious-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: Drafting Women Violates Religious Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tarkington\"Margaret Tarkington<\/a>, a professor of law at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law, wrote an interesting perspective<\/a> on the recent developments regarding women in combat and drafting women. In short, she has no problem with women being allowed to be in combat if they want to be. But, she thinks that forcing every other<\/em> woman to sign up for the draft as a result could violate their religious liberties [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n

The conscription of women raises significant religious liberty concerns for women (including many LDS, Islamic, Orthodox Jew and other Christian sects and religious traditions) who devoutly believe that their primary calling in life is to be a mother, raising their children in a safe and loving home. The First Amendment is intended to secure the free exercise of religion. For myself, the most important \u201cfree exercise\u201d of my religious convictions is being able to be a mother and to raise my children at home.<\/p>\n

While women should have equal opportunities to join and advance in the military if they so choose, it is a different matter to force each woman to leave her family \u2014 or opportunities for family \u2014 at the government\u2019s beck and call and go to war. The premise of the feminist movement was that women should not be forced to be at home; it would be ironic if women could now be forced to leave home and child-raising<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps unknowingly, Tarkington is reframing the latest unspoken\u00a0battle in the culture wars: the “unintended consequences” of the new civil rights era. Those who demand “rights” for themselves are increasingly at odds with those who don’t want<\/em> those rights — or the inherent responsibilities that come with them.<\/p>\n

The homosexual movement is not unlike Tarkington’s view on women and the draft. The vast majority of America (including Christians and other religious faithful) is libertarian when it comes to homosexuality — ‘let them do what they want.’ One of the most frequently exercised rights in\u00a0America, after all, is the right to be wrong.<\/p>\n

But society has yet to come to terms with what happens when someone’s newly found “right” creates a responsibility on someone else<\/em> — the legal “requirement” to help homosexuals celebrate their “wedding,” for example, even when such an act violates the religious liberty of the person coerced into that role.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting how quickly certain segments of society go from complaining about having a worldview “forced” on them to doing that very thing.<\/p>\n

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