Santorum

And the Single Gal

Santorum has a 'widows and orphans' problem. He was recently queried concerning odd statements he now attributes to his wife regarding those radical feminists who have to work for a living. He claims his wife felt put down when she chose instead to rear a child giving up a legal career. Santorum underestimates himself. She struck gold. To have a husband that wants to be faithful to raise children that wants you to stay at home is the gold standard for many. For others it is a prescription for boredom and intellectual decay-and why is it his business if they also wish to have a brain (If I only had a brain, sung the scarecrow in the Wizzard of Oz). Some are not so fortunate or blessed as his wife. I made the point earlier that I had a grandmother widowed young, and other relatives that lost their father to cancer, and another off the rails male who wasn't particularly useful in the support arena to demonstrate that single working women are radical feminists by survival necessity. This is the widows and orphans problem- spiritual widows, or orphaned by incompetence-it doesn't matter. There are massive numbers of incarcerated African American males -something like twenty percent at least of all African American males end up at some point in their life in jail- stunning. They often have mouths to feed. The women left behind have to feed them- so they are radical feminists by survival necessity. And thank God we have a workforce hospitable to them. There are women who have been abandoned by people they loved after having their heart gutted out of them like a fish cleaning, sometimes with kids, and they are spiritual widows fending for themselves. Half the country is divorced. Lots of spiritual widows. They are radical feminists by survival necessity. Thank God women can be professionals. And thanks to Obama and those before him who cared, those women should expect to get the same pay for the same work a man does and they can sue if they don't.
Then there are those devoted to and dedicated to different kinds of love- love that didn't involve raising children, because it didn't happen for them--not because they didn't try or were not looking in the right places. Love takes on many forms as we read today in the Huff Post Valentines breakdown of Eros, Phileo and Agape Godly loving. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-lose/what-is-biblical-love_b_1271144.html?ref=religion
Some people are self sacrificial loving others in a Phileo and Agape way and they have to have a job to keep on keeping on.
It is unkind to condemn or criticize someone for not being as blessed as you. The bible teaches that the hallmark of true justice is how one takes care of the 'widows and orphans' in society. I don't want to mark Santorum's scorecard on that. But it seems all in Vogue in higher Republican circles to trashtalk working women, and more so professional women. This, I suggest comes from a dark place of male ego insecurity and does not become anyone running for President.
Then there are those women God called, gifted and hopefully equipped to do big things, important things, things they are equally capable of and strongly talented and uniquely skilled to do. They should do them or they are not following God's will for their lives. They should do them even if they have to do them alone with or without a male supporting them. They should do them even if they don't have children. Every woman does not feel it God's call on them to have children. They are not all Mother Theresa, but Santorum would probably call her a radical feminist too. Thank God for the Radical Feminists. You Go Girl.