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(In response to the Japanese royal family's tradition of male only succession)
John Knox had it right in "The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women." The more recent examples of female regents notwithstanding, Paul's message is clear that men are to lead, and not women. It is even worse when considering the fact that, in the case of Mary Queen of Scots and Bloody Mary of England (Roman Catholics and the two women that Knox was most focused upon in his diatribe), the women took power and abused their power against Protestants. Paul says that it is improper for women to have authority over or to teach a man. This is not simply (as some suggest) a message to the Church that has nothing to do with how society is to be goverened; Paul speaks of a creation ordinance, not an ecclesiastical one.
Better to keep the genie in the bottle, as the Japanese are trying to do, rather than trying to undo the precent, which is impossible in the UK, the Netherlands, and Denmark.
It just goes to show what feminism has done to the Western world. We would do well to read Knox's work and wise up here and abroad.
