tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post5456773870195071185..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Not a good trend...Pastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-76957133690364521372013-06-23T17:16:34.347-05:002013-06-23T17:16:34.347-05:00fatherd,
Thank you. The women who '"mus...fatherd,<br /><br />Thank you. The women who '"muscled" their way into a man's world had to be extraordinary. <br /><br />Anonymus, I am sorry your wife has to work. As Lutherans, the proper thing to do is recognize your financial difficulties. I have one question, however. If someone died and left you a large sum; if you won the lottery; if your congregation got together to support you; would your wife quit work?<br /><br />I am not trying to offend. I realize there truly are situations like yours. <br /><br />Feminism is a great evil, and we all suffer it's effects. I am one of those women who never burned my bra, but still, the effects of it taint my thoughts.Janis Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02947508427040251166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-62154517459640647222013-06-22T23:05:34.433-05:002013-06-22T23:05:34.433-05:00It would be foolish to claim that mom and dad both...It would be foolish to claim that mom and dad both work because they are "selfish." The days of being able to support a family on a single income are long gone. Anyone who has been alive long enough has witnessed the decent paying manufacturing jobs disappear beginning with the death of the railroads. The decline in American living standards has been gradual, yet a slow and steady one since 1973.......<br /><br />Some people in my LCMS congregation go out of their way to try to shame my wife for working outside the home. They do not understand that it was an economic choice and not a personal one. My wife would gladly quit her job and stay home with the kids. However, as I work a modest government job, we could not survive on my income alone. We are stuck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-30198906140915430402013-06-22T13:49:07.009-05:002013-06-22T13:49:07.009-05:00This is the flower of the feminist movement. It is...This is the flower of the feminist movement. It is the "equality" they so fervently demanded. <br /><br />In truth, before the feminist movement came along, there were very few jobs that were not open to women, if they really wanted them. We have had female physicians, female scientists, female engineers, etc. for a long, long time. Most of these jobs were previously filled by men, but there was always a way for a determined woman to enter these fields. The ordained clergy is the only exception that I can recall at the moment.<br /><br />We are all allowed to make our own blunders, and the women's movement has made a huge one, bad for women and bad for men. They are finding out that having their cake and eating it too makes their lives too "full," but they insist that this is the only way.<br /><br />I am old enough to recall the time before all of this foolishness came along. The idea that both parents had to work was basically motivated by post-WWII greed, a way for the double income household to move ahead in material possessions beyond the single income family. Then the liberals decided that "equality" was the way to universal happiness, and nothing less would do. It was done with malice aforethought, specifically to make women "independent," and ultimately to make many of them dependent on the government, rather than a husband. The destruction of the institution of marriage has been a major leftist goal for a century or more, and this was all a part of that program.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com