It's hard to believe this sort of thinking still goes on. One of the main reasons I left religion in the dust in my youth was the blatant baloney of attributing human emotions and physicality like sexual division to a god. How petty can it get?
Santorum Staffer Says Women Shouldn't Be President
Because It's Against God's Will
By Marie Diamond
In an article about the reasons Rep. Michele Bachmann's campaign fizzled, the Des Moines Register points to "sexism among conservatives," singling out an offensive email written by a staffer to Rick Santorum:
Rival presidential candidate Rick Santorum's Iowa coalitions director, Jamie Johnson, sent out an email saying that children's lives would be harmed if the nation had a female president. [...]"The question then comes, 'Is it God's highest desire, that is, his biblically expressed will, ... to have a woman rule the institutions of the family, the church, and the state?' " Johnson's email said.
Johnson, who remains on Santorum's staff, complained that the email was "blown out of proportion" and should not be held against him because it was sent from a personal email account.
But he refused to back away from the substance of the email, saying "I was sharing my personal reflections with a friend...[T]hey were reflections on over 25 years of formal, theological study [based in] classical Christian doctrine."
After Bachmann left the race, several of her advisers pointed to sexism as a contributing factor. "We did believe that sexism -- I use the stronger word misogyny -- was at play," said Peter Waldron, her faith outreach coordinator. Waldron said that several influential pastors called for her to drop out of the race, reasoning "that a female could not be a civil magistrate." Johnson himself is a pastor at a central Iowa church.
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