THE VALUE OF A WOMAN, MOTHER

Liberals, today, continually harp on conservatives, and especially, Christian conservatives for their “war on women.” They are as blind as they are wrong-headed. In America, there is no war on women. There is a war on men. Liberal media and Hollywood in particular have feminized, emasculated, maligned the male image. They have attacked any wise, strong male leadership including fatherhood by portraying, as a rule, any but homosexual men as bungling, bumbling dolts that need rescuing by woman. The attempt is to make the genders equal. As examples of this mindset applied to other areas, attempting to make everyone financially “equal,” they fail to bring the poor up to the level of the rich and only succeed in bringing the rich down to the level of the poor. In education, the same philosophy, where implemented, fails to raise the failing student to the level of the progressing student and only results in dragging the progressing student down to the failing one’s. The error is based in believing the genders are identical. In insisting that men and women are the same the only thing such a mindset has succeeded in is devaluing women—and men. See, the value of something often is in its difference not its sameness. To use Jesus’ analogy of a believer’s influence, salt that is not salty is valueless. What makes salt valuable—and effective—is that it is different than sand, not just like it. Stating the obvious, women are different than men. The difference goes far beyond the anatomical. It is in this difference that women find value. To use mothers as examples, what man can give birth and nurse a child? What man has the heart of a mother? The liberal mindset errs in thinking that for something to be equal in value it has to be the same in nature. At first young children get tripped up on this concept. A child holds four quarters in his small fist. You try to trade him a dollar bill for the four quarters. He refuses. To him the bill and the coins cannot have the same value because they are different. In fact, “four” coins seems more valuable than “one” bill. Difference does not imply less value. Before you think me contradictory having previously stated that the value of salt is in its difference, the point there was that to make salt just like sand does not increase its value. To try to insist that a woman is identical to a man does not increase her value. To say that she is different does not decrease her value. Men and women have different anatomies, ways of thinking, roles to play, strengths, etc. That does not mean one is less valuable than the other. Difference doesn’t make less valuable. Difference is where the value is. Thus, to say that women in general and mothers in particular are different from men is to esteem them highly, value them immensely, and have no need of this war of the sexes.