Submissive* for Your Approval?

NOT!

Or, Why Y Chromosomes and Male Sex Organs Do

Not Necessarily Endow their Owners with Superb
Decision-Making Skills

Recently, (I wrote this in the Nineties) the Southern Baptist

Convention amended its statement of core beliefs, calling on the
Christian wife to ‘graciously submit herself to the servant
leadership of her husband.’

Dictionary definition of ‘submit.’ From the Latin, ‘submittere,’

“To lower.” “To yield oneself to the governance or authority of
another.”

Common synonyms: Yield, Surrender, Bow, Comply,

Obey, Agree, Resign.

Do the Southern Baptists know what they’re demanding? Do

they know the nasty things the word ‘submit’ infers on the
battlefield, the boardroom, the bedroom, or in a dark alley?

Perhaps they do.

If so, then all the more reason to oppose them.
 But, what does all this have to do with the Promise Keepers?

The seven principles of the Promise Keepers’ organization

include one which closely approximates the Baptists’
requirement
for wives to be submissive.

As thinking beings, we must judge any recommendation for

social behavior based on the soundness of the argument—
whether it reflects the complex reality of the strengths,
weaknesses, abilities and limits of real human INDIVIDUALS as
accurately as possible. And so, right here and right now, we
cannot with good conscience accept any asserted universal
tendency toward the possession of superior decision-making
skills based on the possession or lack of a certain set of
sex organs.

We hereby reject the Promise Keepers vision of leadership based

on sex and instead offer another vision of leadership in America
based on INDIVIDUAL human qualities. Thank you for your
consideration.

Submitted as graciously as possible,

By your ordinary, everyday, pro-science, pro-technology, small d

democrat, large and small r republican, agnostic, secular
humanist, and hard-core individualist, patriotic American,

Sally Morem

*Pun most definitely intended