03.20.07
Christian Support for a Female President
Note: This article is not intended to provide support for any given political candidate and/or political party.
The United States of America is approaching a historic landmark in the upcoming year. Election year 2008 will see a woman running for president who stands a relatively decent chance of getting elected and becoming the first female president in our country’s history. In this election we will be forced to consider not only the election issues but also whether we are comfortable voting for a woman to be the head of our nation.
For Christians this is a particularly pressing issue because we hold unique views about gender roles between men and women which are denied by the world outside the church. Christians are taught from the scriptures that the man is to be the spiritual leader of his family and head over his wife. He is to have authority over her and he is to lead her both spiritually and in matters of importance in the secular world as it relates to their family. Wives are to humbly submit to their husband’s authority and rejoice in aiding and serving her husband:
Ephesians 5:21-28
22Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. 28In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.