I’m pretty sick of questions about whether Palin should be a ruler or whether she is compromising her motherhood by running for office and “neglecting” her children.

First thing.  Nothing in Genesis 1 or 2 dictates that every man must or should marry and have children.  In fact, it is perfectly compatible with Genesis 1 and 2 that some men should never marry or have kids.  And the same with women, not every woman is supposed to be a domestic.  That is not what Genesis 1 or 2 establishes.

Second thing, there are a thousand ways to raise kids, and the modern nuclear family with the stay at home Mom is only one of them.  Women have worked outside on the homestead for thousands of years.  For most of human history “cooking” for a household meant raising and slaughtering animals as well as growing food.  I like the bourgeois way of life and think it is a gift, but it is not one that all families are granted either in higher or lower classes.  So the idea that Sarah is obligated to stay home and while her husband is sole economic provider is simply garbage.  You may know a couple that would be better off if they split the household needs in bourgeois fashion, but you have no business putting that on strangers from Alaska.

(Oh, and the fact that one daughter fell into the sin of fornication means exactly nothing as some sort of proof against Sarah’s responsibilities.  It will prove nothing against Obama’s character either if it happens to him at some point.)

What we do have in Genesis is a man and a woman both given dominion over the whole earth.  This represents humanity as a whole, but it usually isn’t experienced by other individuals.  Most of us have a pretty small piece of it.  But here is someone raised up like Esther (but for much better reasons and without the gross harem issues) to be at the right hand of the President who already is the queen of one of the world’s last wildernesses.  It is an awesomely primal story we see playing out.

I can see lots of ways it could end in tragedy.  But I also see lots or reasons for hope.  And for once there is a chance for change, which until Palin was selected was something this election was entirely missing.