Women in Combat: It's Immoral!

Remember when Congress was debating the issue of women in combat? Remember when they voted to allow women in and near combat zones? No?

Neither do I. The debate never took place except to some degree during the Equal Rights Amendment battle. So how did we end up in the situation where women are dying and have been taken prisoner during wars on foreign shores?

It's the morphing principle. If you can't get what you want through legitimate debate, use the courts or authority figures or anything else to morph your position into the mainstream.

The debate on women in the military needs to happen for the sake of the children. (The left is always using "the children" to promote what they want, but seldom seem to care about the real interests of children.)

Touchstone Magazine has a great article, Mothers in the Line of Fire in the January/February 2010 issue. Andrew Sicree examines the issue from Catholic morality and concludes that, "Not only is it immoral to conscript women of child-bearing age, but it is also immoral to permit them to volunteer to serve in combat positions, except in strictly defensive situations such as might be found in 'home front' scenarios wherein there is no longer any safe place to retreat."

Check out the article and enter the debate.

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