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Are Evangelicals against rape?
After John MacArthur’s #MeToo problems, you have to ask.
The shocking comments by John MacArthur that went around social media this past weekend—telling women, like Beth Moore, to not serve in churches but “Go home!”—had a kicker at the end. The Evangelical standard-bearer denounced #MeToo as an evil feminist plot.
MacArthur regularly mocks the movement, as in a 2018 sermon:
‘All this has been done to me’—and so, hashtag, #MeToo. “I’m a victim. Me too, me too. I was abused, I was abused, I was abused. Somebody offended me. Somebody made a micro-aggression against me.”
Studying his record on sexual violence—is he even against it?
I read his comments on women reporting domestic abuse, and I’m puzzled.
These are not questions that I used to have asked of me 25 years ago in ministry. To find a woman who would say, “My husband is beating me,” was pretty rare. Now, I don’t know that there is a week that goes by that I don’t hear about this going on. And there’s so much deception in our culture. There’s no premium on truth; everybody lies.
He prefers the good old days when he didn’t hear reports of spousal beating, appears to be his meaning. With a suggestion the women are liars.
