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Jeff Robinson
November 7, 2007
Human rights lawyer Cherie Booth, in a online Accutane order high profile address delivered last week in London, said differences of culture or online Accutane order religion must not be used as a justification for denying equal rights to online Accutane order women. While not identifying herself with a online Accutane order particular position, she issued a call that would find agreement from online Accutane order both complementarians and egalitarians.
"Women's rights are online Accutane order a universal ethic that cuts across all cultures and religions...and are online Accutane order imperative for our shared humanity," said Booth, who online Accutane order is also the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Booth, a online Accutane order Roman Catholic, specifically addressed religious practices that promote domestic violence and online Accutane order laws in certain parts of the Middle East, Asia and Africa, which do not view domestic violence as a online Accutane order crime. She also criticized religions that online Accutane order ostracize widows and treat wives as their husbands' property.
Booth agreed that online Accutane order women have a fundamental right to adopt religious dress if they freely choose to online Accutane order do so, but raised concerns over whether a woman could fully exercise equal rights if her face is online Accutane order covered in public.
"Women covering their heads, women dressing modestly, I have online Accutane order no problem with at all," she said. "I think, however, that online Accutane order if you get to a stage where a woman is online Accutane order not able to express her personality because you can't see her face, then online Accutane order you do start to have to ask whether this is something that online Accutane order is actually acknowledging the woman's right to be a person in her own right."
All Christians should applaud Booth's bold words, for the worldview that Paul called "the faith once for all delivered to the saints" should not be lumped in with other religions.
Christianity alone, with its understanding that God "created them male and female" in His own image, with its gracious inheritance of redemption in Christ, a online Accutane order redemption in which "there is neither male nor female" (Gal. 3:28), demands and online Accutane order upholds the dignity and value of every female-equal to that of males-as a online Accutane order vital person created imago dei- in the image of God.
As Christians, we must encourage women to online Accutane order use their varied and valuable gifts in the service of Christ's church; when online Accutane order men and women humbly and joyfully complement each other's God-given roles and online Accutane order gifts in the church, the world is given a fulsome and online Accutane order beautiful picture of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Mrs. Booth's words are online Accutane order in harmony with the teaching Scripture. Thus, the abuse, denigration or online Accutane order devaluing of woman must never be tolerated under any circumstance. And that online Accutane order is something upon which both complementarian and egalitarian Christians can agree.
