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Adobe Stock \/ Inset: Pastor Mark Driscoll X<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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<\/a>, writing, \u201cA Christian man who doesn’t work is worse than a non-Christian. This includes you, stay-at-home dads.\u201d It\u2019s not the first time Driscoll has been critical of stay-at-home dads. This past Mother\u2019s Day, Driscoll wrote<\/a>, \u201cA Mothers Day reminder that if you\u2019re a voluntary stay at home dad forcing mom to leave the kids to make the income, God thinks you\u2019re worse than an unbeliever (and he\u2019s sending them to hell, so).\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2008, Driscoll discussed<\/a> what he believed should be the roles of men and women with his wife, Grace. \u201cWe’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,\u201d said Grace. Mark Driscoll called the current culture \u201cperverted.\u201d \u201cYou live in an absolutely perverted, corrupted, stupid culture. It’s a culture of hook-up, shack-up, break-up.\u00a0 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. \u201cMaybe you get injured, you get sick, you get cancer, totally understood we’re not legalists.\u00a0But if you’re an able-bodied man, your job is to provide for\u00a0the needs of your family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Students for Life of America President Kristan Hawkins took umbrage with Driscoll\u2019s comment. \u201c@PastorMark owes my husband an apology for this post,\u201d she wrote<\/a>. \u201cMy 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.\u201d In a separate post, she said she was \u201c100% done\u201d with \u201cmanly advice\u201d from conservative commentators. \u201cMost of these men have cheated on their wives or have found to be in some other public sin. It’s sickening,\u201d she wrote<\/a>. She also asked Driscoll<\/a> if \u201cstaying at home to care and educate your children isn’t \u2018work?\u2019\u201d Dr. Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood director who now speaks out against abortion, agreed. \u201cI don\u2019t understand this mentality,\u201d she wrote<\/a>, noting that her husband stayed at home while she shared her experiences about Planned Parenthood. \u201cI 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\u2019s will for our family in ministry, TOGETHER.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, \u201cA Christian man who doesn’t work is worse than a non-Christian. This includes you, stay-at-home dads.\u201d It\u2019s not the first time Driscoll has been critical of stay-at-home dads.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":516,"featured_media":9146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMark Driscoll Stokes Controversy With Comments on Stay-at-Home Dads<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pastor Mark Driscoll sparks backlash after calling stay-at-home dads \u201cworse than unbelievers,\u201d prompting strong responses.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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