Why do many people morally object to women in combat?

From one perspective, that is also the reason why it's so important that women be allowed in the military and in combat. War is in many ways our standard for moral action. read more

Questions like whether transgender people should openly serve or whether women should be in combat almost seemed like a distraction from the larger issue—the military being cordoned off from the country itself. read more

But there is a world of difference between women participating on certain missions and women serving alongside men as permanent members of ground combat units. This difference has everything to do with why combat units exist – they exist to be sent into harm’s way. read more

Assigning women to combat is a radical attack on the natural complementarity of the sexes; that is, that God created men and women differently for a good reason, that one sex can do things for which nature has not prepared the other. read more