Evangelical leaders framed women-in-combat policy as an attack on presidential manhood

Evidence

After the Pentagon lifted the ban on women in combat in 2013, John Piper called Obama’s support for the move “a shame on the president’s manhood.” … Dobson’s fury at the threat of transgender restrooms reflected longstanding assumptions about unrestrained male sexuality, female vulnerability, and predatory behavior. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 541

Categorization

• XREF: Supports the central thesis that militant masculinity, not theology, organized evangelical political responses. — connects to: Male leaders exploited women’s internal disputes to justify male control — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 753