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Women in the Military

If certain federal lawmakers have their way, your eighteen-year-old daughters will be registered for selective service and drafted for combat by the next war. Many women’s rights advocates claim that Christians have long since abandoned the issue of women in the military. Sadly, far too many pastors and politicians were embarrassingly silent on this issue in the days leading up to the war against Iraq. In this special forum of key theologians and Christian thinkers, we throw down the gauntlet of God’s Holy Word, to proclaim that it is biblically impermissible and a profound judgment upon our nation for men to abdicate their role as protectors and warriors by permitting and perpetuating the practice of women in the military.

Dead Women in Combat: Does Anyone Care?by Wesley Strackbein, February 18, 2013
Dead women — killed on the frontlines of combat — are no more a terrible sight to behold than dead men. So declared General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as he joined President Barack Obama and... Read More
America the Barbarous: New Pentagon Policy Sanctions Women in Combatby Wesley Strackbein, February 14, 2012
America has become a nation of barbarians. For more than a decade, women representing the U.S. armed forces have been dying in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have reported on this fact numerous times at Vision Forum, previously highlighting... Read More

Women in Combat: A Time for Truthby R. Albert Mohler, Jr., June 7, 2004
The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal continues to dominate the world’s headlines, even as the incriminating photographs have become some of the most discussed — and infamous — images in history. Nevertheless, missing from most of this conversation is any reference to the obvious — the fact that the smiling face of the tormentor in so many of these photographs is an American woman in uniform. Read More
Practical Solutions for Ending the War on Terrorby Douglas Phillips, Esq., May 28, 2004
Recognizing that terrorism, warfare, and national insecurity can be judgments that God brings upon disobedient people, the first mission of Christian Americans is to self-examine themselves and their practices in light of God’s Word. The greatest antidote to judgment is the favor of the Lord, which he promises to grant to those who humbly supplicate before him, repent and seek His favor. Rather than being an afterthought or a footnote in the sermons of our pastors, or the speeches of our President, a commitment to righteous public policy must be our first thought and our first commitment. With this in mind, the following practical steps are offered to end the war on terror. Read More

Maxims of Christ’s Servant Standing Before the Political Parties of Americaby Douglas Phillips, Esq., May 28, 2004
I am a Christian. I am the servant of Christ and His representative. All loyalty, fealty, and duty is owed to Him above all other relationships and associations. This means that my political loyalty and allegiance is to the Lord Jesus Christ when I walk into the ballot box, when I evaluate the action of political leaders, or when I exercise my God-given duty as an American to hold such leaders accountable for their actions. Read More
Are They Coming to Draft Your Daughters? And Other Moral Issues which the Church Must Addressby Doug Phillips, May 28, 2004
“I think the debate over women in the U.S. military is over... That debate is over.” —ABC *Nightline, May 21, 2004[i] “As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which... Read More

A Letter of Hopeby Bonnie Hall, February 25, 2004
I was in the military, US Air Force (four years) and the Air Force Reserve (fourteen years), for a total of eighteen years. I had reached the rank of Master Sergeant with only two more years left to retirement. After eighteen years of service I requested a discharge and I walked away. Read More
The Gauntlet is Thrownby Douglas Phillips, Esq., April 18, 2003
The gradual acceptance since WWI of women in the military, first as WAVES, then as WACs, and finally as warriors, must rank as one of the single most important events of the last century. One cannot understand the emasculation of the modern man and the consequent demise of the family in America, without seeing the profound spiritual implications for the men of a nation when they cease to be the protectors of women. Read More

What Kind of Nation Sends Women into Combat?by Cort Kirkwood, April 16, 2003
The ridiculous spectacle of rescued POW Pfc. Jessica Lynch, the feisty, ballyhooed warrior of the Army’s 507th Maintenance Company, which was butchered early on in Iraq, occasioned the usual war whoops. Yet no one asked a simple question: What in heaven’s name was a hundred-pound girl, barely out of pigtails and high school, doing in a combat zone? Read More
Female Warriors and Feminized Menby Phil Lancaster, April 15, 2003
To have women serving as soldiers on the battlefield is an abomination in the eyes of God and ought to be an offense to righteous men and women. It is an abandonment of the God-given order for society in which men are called upon to lay down their lives in defense of their wives, their homes, and their country, so that women can fulfill their primary calling to bear and nurture life. Read More

What the Bible Says About the Draft and Women in Combatby Russel S. Walton, Jr., April 15, 2003
We must weigh compulsory military conscription — and the potential drafting of young women — on the scales of God’s Word and measure our decisions on these matters according to His perfect will and perfect laws. Read More
Multi-Generational Manhoodby Douglas Phillips, Esq., April 15, 2003
Heroism does not emerge from a vacuum. It is cultivated multi-generationally. It is nurtured through proverb and living example. It is impressed upon the minds and hearts of the young through the retelling of stories. Read More

Women and Children Firstby Douglas Phillips, Esq., April 15, 2003
The true lessons of the Titanic stand, both as a warning against misplaced faith and human arrogance, and as an affirmation of the age-old principles of duty, sacrifice, and love. Read More
Statement on Women in Combatby R. Potter, April 15, 2003
This report proposes to show that there is no Scriptural warrant, either stated or inferred, giving grounds for women to serve in the military. Read More

When Mamma Wears Combat Bootsby Mrs. M.L. Chancey, April 14, 2003
When the conservative commentators bring out all the studies and statistics that show women lack the upper body strength that is a given for ninety-five percent of the male population and that women tend to panic under fire, they have already given away the premise. Read More
Messiah’s Congregation Position Paper on Women in the Military
Messiah’s Congregation confesses, along with all the true churches of Christ throughout the ages, that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are the alone perfect source by which we may know what man is to believe concerning God and what duty God requires of man. Read More

Boys Protect Girlsby Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr., April 10, 2003
Let us speak against all abominations and aberrations. Let us, though we will suffer the anemic arrows of public opinion, speak with vigor what God’s own Son, and my own son, will never forget — that boys protect girls. Read More
Prisoners of Political Correctnessby Jane Chastain, April 3, 2003
Something is terribly wrong when the most powerful country on earth is assigning women service members to units where they are subject to capture, rape, torture and death, while able-bodied men are stationed out of harm’s way or, worse still, at home in the comfort of their living rooms. Read More