Palin Paradox II

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I'm sorry, I can't help myself but rant some more.  As is often the case, I see things very differently from my fellow evangelicals, but this time it's with an ironic twist, since my view on women is a fuzzy hybrid of egalitarian and complementarian (I'll go into that in another post someday).

Here are my thoughts in response to this from Challies:

Where did this idea come from that what supposedly applies to Christian women in the church and at home doesn't apply to them in the world?  That's not logical or consistent and God is both.

Also, the compartmentalization (separating her calling as world leader from her role as wife and mother) is, on an opposite pole, reminiscent of what happened during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal when people were saying that his role of President was completely separate from his personal life.

A woman with five children, one of whom has special needs, and another who is expecting a baby, already has a calling, and it's right there with her kids.  If she had another calling on her life (for this season), then why did she go and start a family?  I read that she gave birth to her first child 8 months after she got married, so I suppose you could argue she didn't intend to have a family, but to go and have four kids after that, all the while pursuing government offices, seems to be the ultimate in irresponsibility.  Like trying to have your cake and eat it, too.

Or, I could be wrong.  She could be super woman and have two simultaneous callings on her life and not need to sleep to function properly.  If Deborah (in Judges) had young children, I stand corrected.

Let me just add that I don't know her heart, or who she is, and I could very well be wrong in my assessment, but from what I know of the Lord and my own experience as a wife and mother (and a person with other callings--not for this season), my discernment says that something is very wrong here and it's appalling how Christians are using doublespeak to defend it.  It's also embarrassing, as though we're so desperate to keep "the other side" from inflicting their immorality on society, we'll do anything to have one of our own in power, even if it means undermining the very values we claim to care most about.