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Vodie Bauckham argues that the epicenter of the cultural warfare we are experiencing today is an attack upon the family.
There are a lot of things going on in our culture, and for many Christians, we don't really understand those things that are going on for the overwhelming majority of us. We don't understand where they've come from.
And what I want to help us to do tonight is to understand these things from their root. You know, if you just go attacking bad fruit, but you don't deal with the roots, bad fruit continues to grow back.
Amen? So we want to understand the root of these cultural issues. And so in that regard, what we're going to do is we're going to look at what I think is the epicenter of this cultural warfare that we're experiencing.
And that is the family. So bear with me while we do that. And if you want to see the epicenter of all of these things, both then and now, you go to the heart of it, the family.
Feminists today fight against the institutions of marriage and family in favor of a worldview that values human freedom and self-determination above the commitment and responsibilities that accompany marriage.
And I just want to say that in 2021, I still don't have equality under the constitution.
Are there really feminists out there who would actually celebrate the end of marriage and families?
In their confusion, many hail the decline of the biblical traditional model of marriage and the family and its replacement by new competing moralities as major progress. Think about that. He says that there are people who look at the decline of the family and see it as progress.
Is that hyperbole? I mean, certainly he doesn't mean that literally, right? Certainly there are people out there who are actually celebrating the demise of the family.
Yes, The Guardian, a major British news and media organization, published this video on its YouTube channel.
Dress it up, subvert it, deny it all you want. Marriage is an institution that has curtailed women's freedom for centuries. Marriage is not about equality. It's about perpetuating male privilege. Accept it.
Marriage can never be a feminist act. It has formed the backdrop to women's oppression for centuries and it continues to do so. And women should stop pretending that marriage is anything other than a tool for their own oppression.
The Black Lives Matter website used to include the statement, we disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure requirement. Bauckham lists several other feminists who have argued the same thing.
Ari Hoekman, head of the United Nations Population Fund, celebrated high rates of divorce.
Ari Hoekman is the head of the UN Population Fund. Hoekman denounced the idea that high rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock birth represent a social crisis, claiming instead that they represent the triumph of human rights against patriarchy.
Let me translate that for you. Better to have children growing up in families riddled with divorce or being born out of wedlock than to have them born in a culture that takes pride in fathers being the head of their households.
Linda Gordon, a popular feminist and historian, directly argues that the nuclear family must be destroyed.
Linda Gordon, if you know anything about the feminist movement, you know Linda Gordon's name. Listen to Linda Gordon. The nuclear family must be destroyed. By the way, this is in 1960. The nuclear family must be destroyed and people must find better ways of living together.
Whatever its ultimate meaning, the breakup of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children.
Let me read that for you again. No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children. Do you realize how ridiculous that is? You bring a child into the world, you have new responsibilities.
You don't get to do whatever you want to do. Here's a newsflash. Women aren't the only ones who don't get to do whatever they want to do when they bring children into the world. Amen, somebody. It's a whole new ballgame.
I mean, how many times you have to talk to young men? They got their head hung down. Why? Because I want to do this and that and the other, but I can't. Why? Well, you know, we got these kids, man. That's right.
You got kids now. She continues. Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people's needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor or any external roles at all.
That's feminism.
In 1974, feminists released a declaration of feminism that argued the same thing.
Well, that's just Linda Gordon. Well, listen to the declaration of feminism from November 1974. I mean, I didn't even know there was a declaration of feminism, right? 1974, this is the declaration of the ideology of the movement.
Marriage has existed for the benefit of men and has been a legally sanctioned method of control over women. We must work to destroy it. The end of the institution of marriage is a necessary condition for the liberation of women.
Therefore, it is important for us to encourage women to leave their husbands and not live individually with men.
That's feminism. Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, said this.
Betty Friedan, you remember her book, The Feminine Mystique from the 1960s, this kind of clarion call for feminism. In her book, Friedan called the family a comfortable concentration camp. Her goal was not to eliminate marriage at the time.
That developed later. She merely wanted women to insist on more from life, for them to reach outside of marriage for fulfillment. Now, I think that's absolutely right. You must reach outside if you cannot find your fulfillment in marriage.
But what I mean by that and what she means by that are two different things. What I mean by that is your fulfillment is found in Christ and in Christ alone. It's not what she means by that.
Some argue that feminism only exists because men weren't fulfilling their responsibilities.
One of the most ironic lies in the whole world is the lie that feminism is based on a vacuum. Those people who say, yeah, you know, feminism, that's just there because men weren't doing what they were supposed to be doing and leading the way that they were supposed to be leading.
If men were doing what they were supposed to be doing and leading the way that they were supposed to be leading, feminism wouldn't even exist.
However, it should be clear by now that feminism is a direct attack upon men even having these kinds of responsibilities in the first place.
It was not because of a vacuum. It was not because men weren't doing what they were supposed to be doing. Actually, the opposite of that is true. It was a direct confrontation of men doing what they were supposed to be doing and an outright rejection of men doing what they were supposed to be doing.
So please stop telling that lie. Feminism does not exist because there is a vacuum. There is a vacuum because feminism exists.
Bauckham also argues that many of these feminist ideas have also made their way into the church.
Well, that's just in radical feminist circles, right? No, that's in the church, y 'all. No, it's not in the church. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. You can do an experiment, okay? Here's what I want you to do.
If you don't have a teenage girl, borrow one. And then you have a luncheon. You have a luncheon with a bunch of church women. And you bring the teenage girl to the luncheon with the church women. And you get the teenage girl before she walks into the luncheon with the church ladies and you say to her, listen, we're about to go into the room with a bunch of church ladies.
You're going to be the only teenage girl in the room. They're going to ask you what you want to do and what you want to be. Here's what I want you to tell them. I want to be a wife and a mother. And you just keep telling them that.
Don't say anything else. And you walk into the luncheon with the church ladies and watch them greet the young lady. Be kind and warm and welcoming to her and ask her what she's doing with her life and ask her what she wants to be and where she wants to go.
And you let her look him in the eye and say, I want to be a wife and a mother and watch how they press her. Yeah, that's good, baby. But what else you want to do? What do you want to do for you? Yeah, that's good.
But I mean, you know, do you have any career goals and ambitions? And I just want to be a wife and a mother and watch the fangs come out of the church ladies. Not talking about university professors, talking about Sunday school teachers who are fire breathing feminists.
The feminist attack upon the family is also a political development that is concentrated on the left.
The president and I are unequivocal in our support of Roe v. Wade and the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade and the right of women to make decisions for themselves with whomever they choose. About their own bodies.
And needless to say, the right of women to make decisions about their own bodies is not negotiable.
This is why it shouldn't surprise us that it's the left that is so committed to destroying our traditional understanding of the family.
The idea that an eight year old child or a 10 year old child decides, you know, I decided I want to be transgender. That's what I think I'd like to be. They make my life a lot easier. There should be zero discrimination.