{"id":1415084,"date":"2022-04-01T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T18:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415084"},"modified":"2022-04-01T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T18:30:00","slug":"supporting-your-husband-is-empowering-for-women-and-clarence-thomas-reminds-us-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supporting-your-husband-is-empowering-for-women-and-clarence-thomas-reminds-us-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Your Husband Is Empowering For Women And Clarence Thomas Reminds Us Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupporting-your-husband-is-empowering-for-women-and-clarence-thomas-reminds-us-why%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415084&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-2022-04-01T135706.588.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>That darn Clarence Thomas is at it again: giving all of us a lovely picture of why, far from being repressive, a mutually supportive marriage is empowering for women (and men).<\/p>\n<p>In a 2018 interview, Ginni Thomas \u2014 who has been married to the Supreme Court justice for more than three decades \u2014 asked her husband about the best part of being on the bench.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019d be impossible without you. It\u2019s sorta like, how do you run with one leg? You can\u2019t. It makes it whole when I have my wife,\u201d was his touching reply.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"xZbI1QiE0USTJWFGq7rIfeDi5xNgq5XnMRaOP20QzchUlOzehBK199SYLBHNtkd\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clarence Thomas to Ginni during a 2018 interview, on the best part of being on SCOTUS: \u201cIt\u2019d be impossible without you. It\u2019s sorta like, how do you run with one leg? You can\u2019t. It makes it whole when I have my wife.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h1WRzrgVvJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/h1WRzrgVvJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iI87SBz9MV\">pic.twitter.com\/iI87SBz9MV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1509628155983708161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Contrary to the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/the-attacks-on-clarence-and-ginni-thomas-are-merely-latest-in-a-decades-long-smear-campaign\/\">deranged<\/a> voices suggesting this clip is any kind of dunk on the Thomases, Clarence\u2019s praise of Ginni reflects a beautiful truth about marriage. When two people become one, they are both part of something greater than themselves \u2014 and <em>living<\/em> for someone outside of themselves (even more true for parents of children!). Marriage and family are no substitute for finding purpose and meaning in one\u2019s relationship with God, but they <em>are <\/em>institutions designed to reflect and complement the eternal.<\/p>\n<p>While cultural, political, and career investments can all be gainful, rewarding, and even necessary \u2014 and often have meaningful human impacts \u2014 investing in another eternal human soul carries infinitely more reward (though they are far from mutually exclusive). This isn\u2019t limited to marriage; it\u2019s the reason parents, teachers, mentors, pastors, friends, doctors, missionaries, counselors, and anyone who serves their fellow man sees so much worth (and finds so much satisfaction) in what they do. It\u2019s the invested time and energy that people on their deathbeds never regret.<\/p>\n<p>For men and women alike, there is a deep dignity conferred by knowing that someone else lovingly looks to you and depends on you. Good men take pride in protecting and providing for their families and pleasing their wives. Good women take pride in similarly serving and loving their families, knowing that they are cherished and that, as Clarence said so adoringly of Ginni, their husbands\u2019 lives would be \u201cimpossible\u201d without them.<\/p>\n<p>In our individualist and postmodern society, both sexes are bombarded with the lie that living for your own pleasure, aggrandizement, and status is the most fulfilling thing you can do. It\u2019s the fable that \u201cself-care\u201d doctrine is built on and that tricks young people into running from marital commitment and sacrifice. It\u2019s the self-centered paradigm in which the physical, temporal, financial, emotional, and spiritual obligations of having children make little sense, leading to nearly half of non-parent adults under 50 saying they \u201clikely\u201d will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/11\/19\/growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children\/\">never have kids<\/a>, a majority simply because they don\u2019t want to. <\/p>\n<p>But our souls are designed for fellowship, love, and self-sacrifice, within and outside of marriage. We sow seeds of growth in others and are built to delight in their fruition. <\/p>\n<p>More often than not, we have the added blessing of maturing ourselves, especially in a relationship where that investment is mutual. In a healthy, supportive marriage, a wife\u2019s love, respect, and influence make her husband better, and a husband\u2019s love, respect, and influence make his wife better.<\/p>\n<p> We all desire to do something that matters and to leave a lasting impact where we go. We seek to make a difference via our careers (not a bad thing!), to leave behind us a flattering reputation, and to feel that our lives have meant something. In a world where so little is enduring, what could be more satisfying than knowing you have participated in the cultivation of a soul?<\/p>\n<p>Marriage is designed to empower men and women to do just that. Simultaneously, it fosters respect, affection, and deep appreciation for that outpouring of love. A spouse who recognizes and cherishes that love \u2014 for women specifically, a man who does so \u2014 offers an empowering reward that none of our world\u2019s ephemeral trinkets can.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That darn Clarence Thomas is at it again: giving all of us a lovely picture of why, far from being repressive, a mutually supportive marriage is empowering for women (and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}