Mark Driscoll stirred up some more controversy recently when he took on the issue of stay-at-home dads. Driscoll posted his thoughts on stay-at-home dads on X, writing, “A Christian man who doesn’t work is worse than a non-Christian. This includes you, stay-at-home dads.” It’s not the first time Driscoll has been critical of stay-at-home dads. This past Mother’s Day, Driscoll wrote, “A Mothers Day reminder that if you’re a voluntary stay at home dad forcing mom to leave the kids to make the income, God thinks you’re worse than an unbeliever (and he’s sending them to hell, so).”

In 2008, Driscoll discussed what he believed should be the roles of men and women with his wife, Grace. “We’re built as women to be home with our kids, and the Titus 2 women, we’re supposed to be loving our husband and children, busy at home, homeward focused, pure, kind, self-controlled so that we don’t malign the Word of God,” said Grace. Mark Driscoll called the current culture “perverted.” “You live in an absolutely perverted, corrupted, stupid culture. It’s a culture of hook-up, shack-up, break-up.  It’s a culture in which men act like Peter Pan, and they’re boys way too long. If you cannot provide for your family, you are not a man,” he said, while adding that there are circumstances when a man is unable to work. “Maybe you get injured, you get sick, you get cancer, totally understood we’re not legalists. But if you’re an able-bodied man, your job is to provide for the needs of your family,” he said.

Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins took umbrage with Driscoll’s comment. “@PastorMark owes my husband an apology for this post,” she wrote. “My husband was a school teacher for 10 yrs, and we decided that, with two of our children having cystic fibrosis, he would stay at home to care for & teach our children while I continue to lead Students for Life to fight to end Planned Parenthood & the violence of abortion. He is 100% a Christian and the best example of a male role model I know.” In a separate post, she said she was “100% done” with “manly advice” from conservative commentators. “Most of these men have cheated on their wives or have found to be in some other public sin. It’s sickening,” she wrote. She also asked Driscoll if “staying at home to care and educate your children isn’t ‘work?’” Dr. Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director who now speaks out against abortion, agreed. “I don’t understand this mentality,” she wrote, noting that her husband stayed at home while she shared her experiences about Planned Parenthood. “I think men who say these things do so from a place of extreme insecurity. I am proud to be married to a man who was willing to put his career aside for a time so that we could follow God’s will for our family in ministry, TOGETHER.”