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Growing up, I understood that females were to get married, have children, take care of the house, and submit to their husbands. My church did not allow women to hold office, and it did not occur to me that it should be different. Fast forward to high school, I began to see women wearing shirts displaying bar codes with the words, "Don 't label me." What did this mean? I understood the world from the perspective of a white privileged male. A perspective that blinded me to the troubles and adversity others encountered, and made me wonder why people wanted change because life to me seemed pleasant. On top of this, my church began to introduce the concept of having females as elders in the future. Thankfully, I had come to the point where I sought …show more content…

Since all human beings have been created in the image of God, all are worthy of unconditional love regardless of sexuality, gender, or race. This is empowering and allows us to disregard sin and live freely, reaching our potential. Too often, the world 's conditions and ideals for the roles of man and woman allow for the blossoming of men due to unearned privileges, while denying women the opportunity to live out their vocation. In addition, I found it very interesting when a lady on the panel introduced the concept of why we get so uncomfortable seeing God referred to as a women. This demonstrates that our idea of God is too small. Because both male and female were created in God 's image, females aren 't a lesser version of God 's image, for God has no sex. On the other hand, it was interesting to hear about how the male on the panel came to recognize himself as a feminist. He talked about that it wasn 't until really strong women came into his life, that he realized his behaviors weren 't going to fly. This allowed him to realize how poorly he was treating woman, and helped him to see that woman are

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