Southern Baptists back Palin despite view on women's role

Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, a woman may not lead a church or a home. But prominent Southern Baptists see nothing wrong with Sarah Palin serving as vice president — or perhaps even commander-in-chief someday.
In other words: A woman can run the White House, just not her own house.

Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s selection of the Alaska governor as his running mate — the first female on the party’s ticket in history — has thrilled conservative Christians. It also has led Southern Baptist congregations and seminary students to confront their beliefs about the role of women in leadership.

Interpreted from Scripture, the teachings on women are held close in thousands of Southern Baptist Convention churches where millions worship. Among them: “The office of pastor is limited to men,” and a wife should “submit herself graciously” to her husband. Earlier this month, more than 100 Lifeway Christian Bookstores — a retail chain affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention — pulled from the shelves a magazine featuring five female pastors on the cover.
Yet many in the denomination say the nation’s second-highest leadership post is an apple to the pulpit’s orange. Palin’s potential work in a McCain? administration — or even as president in the event of McCain’s death — would be separate from her family life with her husband, Todd, and their children.

“There’s no disconnect or inconsistency whatsoever,” said Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. “We don’t go beyond where the New Testament goes. Public office is neither a church nor a marriage.”

It’s a question that’s more than theological. The Southern Baptist Convention, with 42,000 churches and 16 million members, is reliably Republican. President Bush has addressed the denomination’s annual meeting several times. And during the 2004 race, the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign hosted a reception for Southern Baptist pastors at a hotel across the street from the assembly.

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Bible Belt politics the creationist museum of idiocy.

just like how the tone changed when it was Palin's kid that was knocked up out of wedlock.

Hypocrites!!!!

I'm starting to think their conviction in their beliefs is a joke.

But work and home can make competing demands. If Todd wants Sarah to do the dishes and John wants her to meet with Putin, who wins according to SBC theology?

This is typical for conservative Christians -- it's not just that their beliefs are wacky; they absolutely refuse to allow any other beliefs to compete with their own. Where others might read an article about female pastors to learn why most churches allow them, these people take the magazine off the shelf.

I've found this to be the case with almost every religion. Even Islam. They believe it's sinnful to drink alcohol, and consort with women, yet they made an exception for the likes of Atta, et al, so they could blend in with the enemy culture to accomplish their goal.

The first hypothetical day she actually had to do any work, calling senators to get them to line up behind McCain on a certain vote and then having to spend hours in the Senate chamber just in case she needs to cast a tie-breaking vote then getting home late in the morning to find Todd still up watching competitive bear-wrestling straight from Alaska and demanding she get him a beer.

TlalocW

I can see why they are absolutely thrilled with Failing... Their backward dogma restricts freedom of thought or differing viewpoints! Thank God I broke free of the handicap of religion!
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