Wanted: A Duke Lacrosse Team Hero

Wanted: A Duke Lacrosse Team Hero is an excellent commentary by Anthony Bradley at the Acton Institute. I loved this paragraph!

We should mourn as a nation because we continue to encourage men to become consumers of female dehumanization. The sensational Duke lacrosse case is a display of all-too-common failure on this score. There is outrage aplenty, but the sources of the problem are deeper than alleged acts of sexual assault. Why is there no national outrage about the fact that two adult women subjected themselves to voyeuristic, live pornography? What kind of men do we raise in America that they would even want to hire a stripper?

He goes on

Duke’s lacrosse team is a team of fully grown, adult men, and they should be expected to live that way. If we send men as young as 18-years old all over the world to die for freedom then surely we should expect the same high standards of character from men in our colleges and universities.

America perpetuates adolescence and enables irresponsibility by not holding college men to the high standards of moral integrity. Duke has no college “kids” going through a “phase.” No child called the Allure Escort Service to hire two women ages 27 and 31.

There is more. Preach it Mr. Bradley!

Comments

[Dana Ames]

Amen.

This brings to my mind accusations by the "complementarian" folks that seeing and treating women as equals in all areas of life is "accommodating" or capitulating to the culture. Oh Really!?! THIS is a prime example is how "our culture" views and values women. Viewing and treating women as equals is so very counter-cultural.

Dana

[Michael Kruse]

Thanks Dana. Excellent point. The term Christians for Biblical Equality uses is non-hierarchical complimentarianism. A mouthful but a good description. In our culture it seems we are a given two option. One is the traditional model where women are not fully recognized for the people God created them to be or the utterly idividualistic model which recognizes no hierarchy but also sees obligations to upbuild the other as the people God created us to be. Using people for our personal wants and needs. The non-hierarchical complimentarianism is a great gift we have to bring to the world but we fail to deliver.