Popular singer Beyoncé is one of the faces for the new Ban Bossy campaign. The movement has people worried that the celebrity endorsers are manipulating the public in an effort to control people's civil liberties.

Ban Bossy is a campaign between Girl Scouts USA and Leanin.org, aiming to encourage leadership among young girls. Beyoncé, Jennifer Garner, Jan Lynch, Condoleezza Rice and other female notables teamed up to release a public service announcement encouraging others to ban the word Bossy from people's vocabulary.

"I'm not bossy," Beyoncé says in the video. "I'm the boss."

Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook is also featured in the PSA. In a recent interview with "Good Morning America" she said, "We call girls 'bossy' on the playground, we call them 'too aggressive' or other B-words in the workplace. They're 'bossy' as little girls, and then they're 'aggressive', 'political,' 'shrill,' 'too ambitious' as women."

The banbossy.com website says, "When a little boy asserts himself, he's called a "leader." Yet when a little girl does the same, she risks being branded "bossy." Words like bossy send a message: don't raise your hand or speak up."

As Christians it is important to know what Gods words says about women and their role in society. In ancient Jewish culture it was patriarchy that excluded women from leading but in the Bible both in the old and new testaments powerful women like, the warrior and judge Deborah, who led Israel against her enemies; and Esther, who saved her people, and Mary Magdalene one of Jesus followers who was given the task of being the very first to inform others of His resurrection, were all referenced as leaders.

While Jesus was physically on earth He publicly included many women as his followers. He taught crowds of both men and women. And he healed and performed miracles as willingly for women, as for men.

Bible scriptures also support the message of equality for women. Here are some examples:

"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28

"For as woman was made from man, so man is now born of woman. And all things are from God."

1 Corinthians 11:12

Although the above scriptures are accredited to the writings of the apostle Paul he is also often looked at harshly for some of his statements in the Bible towards women. "I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet." 1 Timothy 2:12 states.

Many scholars attribute the above statement to the customs of the time in which Paul was speaking. After His death and resurrection women continued to flock to meetings to hear the Gospel message since Christ embraced women as he taught.

Biblical proof that Paul was not really against women teaching are his own writings. The apostle spoke highly of the couple Priscilla and Aquila. They lived, worked, and traveled with the Apostle Paul, and he described them as his "fellow workers in Christ Jesus," in Romans 16:3. Verifying that he in fact called Priscilla a teacher.

Many people's comments on the public service announcement to ban bossy are afraid that this movement is a way for feminist people to try and take away the public's first amendment rights of freedom of speech as described in the United States constitution.

"They want to CONTROL you," one comment read, as many others agreed. Another added, "So..what? Strike it from dictionaries, prosecute anyone who uses the word?"

Others felt like the celebrity endorsements and any funds used to produce the video would be better spent towards other efforts. "Why not use a fraction of this campaign to develop programs to empower young girls/ young women vs censuring everyone," someone else remarked.

Christians are instructed in the bible to live with a balance, whether the public fears that Ban Bossy is a ploy to change the structure of society or not.

"Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord," the Bible states. Actress Candace Cameron described the definition of Biblical submission after Feminist greatly criticized her for living by the scripture.

"The definition I'm using with the word 'submissive' is the Biblical definition of that," she said. "So, it is meekness, it is not weakness. It is strength under control, it is bridled strength."

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