How's this for a return?

Hattip to my friend the Ninjew for pointing this out to me:

Iranian officials on Saturday denied a report published by the Canadian National Post on the previous day, claiming that a new dress-code law was passed in Iran this past week, which mandates the government to make sure that religious minorities - Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians - will have to adopt distinct color schemes to make them identifiable in public.

The National Post later cited experts saying that the idea of religious demarcation had only arisen in discussing a law defining Iranian dress code. The paper quoted an Iranian commentator who said the idea of external identification of non-Muslim minorities was only raised as a secondary motion.
Read the whole article here.

Just the idea that this was even brought up as an idea is disturbing. But it is becoming clear that the "conservative" Islamist political stance is losing its place in the modern world. After all, the ideas that women are inferior and that anyone that leaves your religion for another must die are being see for the idiocy that they really are more and more these days.

The "GOP Christian" posted a comment on one of my older posts about feminism not having a place in Christianity. While I would agree that pro-abortion and pro-homosexual ideals are not in-line with what God has laid out as the Truth, the idea that women are to always be inferior to men because "God says so" is in the same train of thought as the clansmen who said slavery was right because there are instructions on how to treat slaves in the Bible. Any idiot knows that is wrong.

I recently attended the wedding of two of my good friends. In the ceremony (which was Southern Baptist, by the way), the minister sais the idea of women submitting to men quite clearly: "A wife should submit to her husband as the church should submit as the bride of Christ." Taken on surface value, some would say this means women should always submit to men, but to take the at surface value ignore the deeper implications. First and foremost, men are not God, we don't even come close. So to think that we can demand the complete submission of women is nothing short of a twisted fantasy. The husband is meant to take the lead in the couple, but the wife has a very important responsibility made implicit by man's vast imperfections, she is meant to help keep him in line.

Face it, even the most intelligent of us guys doing incredibly stupid things on a regular basis. To think that it is God's will to have women just sit by and say "I don't think this is a good idea, but you said it was so I submit to that" when a man is about to commit an incredible blunder is completely moronic. At that point it is the woman's job to grab the rolling pin, desk lap, are any other hard object that is readily available and knock him back in line. Men are not perfect (neither are women).

On a side note, I remember a protion of John Eldredge's Wild at Heart when speaks breifly about the one of the role's of women ir to seduce men, in that a woman should show a man she is a good mate (within reason of course). I'll try to look it up later and post the passages Eldredge cites.

For now, I'm out.


-the Progressive Conservative