Insight on the Role of Women in Public Life

By staff - Sep 10, 2008

Considering recent media coverage of Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin and the topic of women in leadership, we thought an analysis entitled The Role of Women in Public Life written in November 2007 by Dr. Barrett Duke, the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission’s vice president for public policy and research, would be a helpful guide.

“The question about the role of women in the political life of our nation is an important and certainly timely one,” wrote Duke last year. “I do not believe that the Bible prohibits women from serving at any level of public life. The Bible’s instructions about the proper roles of men and women apply to the church and the family. The Bible does not speak directly to differing roles of men and women in public life.”

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