Come to think of it, World Vision should bring the gospel to Southwestern. Imagine what an example we North Americans are being around the world.

Think about it, program that can be called sexist even by many Christians, being defended by a male. This only goes to show just how out of touch James Dobson is that he sent a guy to defend his position here.

Secondly: it’d be a fine program if it was offered for free. And if it’s THAT important to Southwestern, they should have no problem with offering this major with a full scholarship. But once again, I feel that it is irresponsible to offer a major that teaches people how to not be in the workforce, and doubly irresponsible to then charge $15-20K per year for the priveldege.

She also told me something interesting that I didn’t know about the word “homemaker”. She told me it is actually an inclusive word that was created to include both men and women, instead of just saying housewife or househusband. It doesn’t seem this degree is being aimed at both men and women. Although they may be saying a woman doesn’t have to be a homemaker, I wonder what their opinion is about a man being a homemaker instead of his wife?

Blessings,
Bryan L

* Create programmes and raise awareness among men and women to acknowledge and alleviate the burdens of women’s triple role in their home, workplace, and community, and promote women’s equal participation in decision-making.
* Enhance the social support system to enable women to work outside of the home by providing free/subsidised and good quality day-care centres for infants and elders.
* Governmental and international agencies, NGOs, employers, and trade unions must ensure equal rights and equal pay for all women.
* Women in leadership must be encouraged to build their capacity, confidence, assertiveness, and leadership skills while increasing the number of female staff who serve as role models. At the same time, men must be made aware of the shared benefits of gender equality, enabling them to relate to and work positively with empowered women.
* Furthermore, World Vision suggests partnership with social institutions such as churches, council of elders, community leaders and other sources of influence to remove barriers that prevent women from full participation.
* Educate men and women on shared gender roles that allow familial and social equity leading to households and societies where both genders have equal opportunities and access to resources and decision making.

I think the issue is that if we are not with them, we are against them. This is the kind of thing that should be taught at university .

Continuing our conversation from the last Homemaker post…

You said:

“I don’t know anyone who is arguing that “the whole of a woman’s duty” is homemaking. The Pattersons and SWBTS aren’t saying that. I’m not saying that. Complementarianism doesn’t teach that. Where are you getting that from?”

And, I said:

Homemaker concentration: “Preparing women to model THE (unique/singular- see Russell’s Theory of Descriptions) characteristics of a Godly woman as outlined in Scripture…”

You asked about the clip. Here are a few thoughts. The Focus on the Family rep was asked why stay at home fathers could not enroll. He made some very enthusiastic comments about SAHD’s but then he couldn’t really think of why they should not get into the course so he didn’t answer.

On the next question, about whether the course teaches submission he denied any knowledge of the curriculum, even though it explicitly says that it will teach the Biblical family model.

So, ultimately, I did not see that he was prepared to defend wifely submission on TV. This might be wise on his part as World Vision is now announcing that denial of decision-making power is a major threat to the health and safety of women world-wide.

That is why I think he got slightly less that his fair share of the time slot.

I’m not particularly interested in theology of the Ladder Day Saint church, so I choose not to attend that church or attend BYU.

I’m interested to know how many people opposed to this program at Soutwestern are also pro-abortion, and how many of those people display bumper stickers on their cars with slogan, “Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one.”