My sweet sister in Christ, Victoria Botkin, is a loving and kind woman who exudes what the Word describes in Proverbs 31. What an incredible blessing it is to know her, for to know her tender persona is to truly love her. I so admire her obedience to the Lord. Victoria is most ardently a Titus 2 woman. She can always be caught affectionately and tenderly guiding some younger woman, and on occasion an older woman, right back to the unfailing Word of God. I admire this woman of bountiful wisdom and pray God's richest blessings on her and her beautiful family. These sessions will encourage and benefit any woman who partakes of them. You don't want to miss this amazing opportunity to hear the timeless wisdom of my dear sister.” — Bridget Baucham, wife to Dr. Voddie Baucham
But, what grieves me is the example she is going to be to a lot of Christian young women, because when I was little I wanted to be a Congresswomen like my heroine, Helen Chenoweth, who was a great lady and was not married at the time, and was a property rights advocate from
John Lofton: That’s a very important point, because if you’re doing it all you are not a mother. Being a mother is a full-time job: it’s an in-the-home, keeper-of-the-home job, particularly for a person who purports to be a Christian. Now if she was not a Christian, then it would be just stupid for anyone to be saying, “Why aren’t you home raising your children?” because that’s the way heathens behave: They don’t raise their children, they have their children, because they haven’t found out how not to have the children, although they’re working on that. Rid the womb of – and then the minute they are borne then other people are raising the children.
And for the life of me I don’t understand why she would be attractive to any Christian for openers and secondly even as a conservative. You heard a lot of talk during the campaign about her being pro-life. Well, really? How so? She has said it. I did interviews with the lady who heads up the
She’s also said, when homosexuality came up, that she had friends who were homosexuals, and she doesn’t judge anyone.
When asked about evolution being taught in schools, “Yes, no problem with that.” Seriously, what would a conservative, much less a Christian, see in this women? I don’t get it.
JL: Thank you very much. Exactly!
R: Abigail Adams was the wife of one president and the mother of another, and I am just amazed reading her letters to her husband while he was in the Constitution Convention. The news couldn’t get in; nobody could get in there. It was a closed session, and they’re writing back and forth. She’s advising him and homeschooling her son at the same time. She had more influence than if she had been President.
JL: You’ve probably heard the phrase: “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.” That’s true! There is no more important role if you want to effect world change, and I believe that was part of what she [Sarah Palin] said in her press conference, she wants to accomplish something else outside government now. O, great she’s at last found out maybe that’s not the best place to achieve world change, and of course our hope would be would go home and raise her kids. But, in her case, seriously, I don’t think she has anything useful to impart to her children: she does not think like a Christian, she does not act like a Christian. You know for better or for worse she has to raise her kids, but I don’t think that she has much to teach them.
JL: Well, there you go; that’s right. As it was, he wasn’t at the gate, he was home changing diapers or standing in the background twiddling his thumbs at a press conference. I thought it was very embarrassing, for him. There was a lot of embarrassing things, by the way, this idea, these questions that were, thank God, being raised by some, raising it explicitly about how proper is it for this woman to be flying around the country when she has children at home: teen aged children, and tiny kids. Seeing her come off that plane clutching her little down-syndrome baby, and that made some people furious. I remember seeing Cokie Roberts on ABC’s this week program; she had smoke coming out of her ears, she was furious that these questions were being raised about staying at home and raising her kids. Her point was: This outrageous to raise questions about her raising her family. “They’d never ask a man that,” she said. And I thought, "Of course not! Of course not! The man is supposed to work outside the house!"
JL: Wow.
JL: Oh, sure; absolutely!
JL: That’s a very profound point, and it can truly be said without any exaggeration that if Sarah Palin were really a Christian woman, we would’ve never heard of her, she would not have been the mayor of Wasilla. She clearly had political ambitions outside the home which means inescapably that your family will be neglected. Did you hear that clip where she was telling Couric, “Yeah, I’m a feminist. I was blessed to grow up in a household where gender was not an issue.” What does that mean?
R: Wow.
JL: They couldn’t tell the men from the women? They didn’t know who was a boy or a girl? You know we’re all just – nobody in here except just us human beings. There’s no assigned role to anybody, we all just do everything? That’s a mess! That’s not a Christian family. It’s a mess! That’s that way heathens behave.
JL: Amen; absolutely.
JL: As a matter of fact, we are saying that in many ways the woman’s role, the wife’s role is more important than the man’s. This doesn’t denigrate women to suggest that they obey God!
JL: God bless you, your family and your work which is hopefully inside the home.
I have often been surprised and almost frightened to see the singular skill and happy audacity with which young American women contrive to steer their thoughts and language through the traps of sprightly conversation; a philosopher would stumble at every step along the narrow path which they tread with assured facility.
Unable and unwilling to keep a girl in perpetual and complete ignorance, they are in a hurry to giver her precocious knowledge of everything. Far from hiding the world’s corruption from her, they want her to see it at once and take her own steps to avoid it. And they are more anxious to ensure her good conduct than to guard her innocence too carefully.
For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves here domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And now that I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women.
-- Ch.12 How the American Views the Equality of the Sexes
Exerpts from article by Elizabeth Botkin To be honest, we’re impressed with Sarah Palin. She is a remarkably talented, well-spoken woman. She has many fine policies. And we like her practical, moose-hunting style of femininity. But it is not a day to rejoice when the best man in the room happens to be a woman —
Seeing women in leadership does not inspire men to be better leaders. We believe Sarah Palin’s example will not inspire men to be men — it will inspire them to make way for more Sarah Palins.
So how are strong women supposed to respond when men are not being men?
The example of the prophetess Deborah, though set in a time of more severe judgment than ours, gives interesting insights. She was living in a time when “the children of
So why are we inspired by Sarah Palin? Because her example puts a stronger fire in us to answer the cry, the way we believe God intended. We are more inspired than ever to help our father, brothers, husbands and sons to fill the role we are not called to fill.
It has rightly been observed that women have already been elected to the highest position they can hold, and that any “promotion” in the civil sphere would be a step backward. Their womanly sphere is where this hurting nation needs them most.
As for us, we don’t aspire to become the presidents we wish we could vote for. We aspire to raise them.
